[AT] Shop heating

[Spencer Yost]

I cranked up the shop's Seigler oil stove tonight for the first time this
season.  36 degrees and falling outside but it is a comfy 62 inside.  Since
shop heating always comes up as a topic every year and I only mentioned it
in passing last year, I thought I would post a few pictures:

http://www.antique-tractor.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=SpencerY
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The stove blows air out the bottom which is great for concrete floors.   I
installed the stove last January.   I didn't get it done until late in the
month so I only ran the stove for two months last winter.  I have it
plumbed to my diesel tank so that I don't have to have separate tanks for
diesel and heating oil.   I have really enjoyed it and has been dependable
so far.   After a few air bubbles worked themselves out of the line
tonight, the stove lit right up with no repairs or involved maintenance
(drained the carburetor last spring and that was it.)

This stove puts out enough heat for me.  I heat 1200 sqft of shop in North
Carolina temperatures.  While we aren't Fargo ND, don't think we are
Alabama or Florida though.   Our weather here in northwest NC is more like
the lower Midwest than the deep south.  A bigger shop or colder climate
would need two unless all you require of your heater is to take the edge
off of the cold.

Anyone as old as me or older will remember these things.   You can get them
used for less than 100 bucks.  Mine cost $50 with the above ground tank but
I didn't take the tank.  You can usually get units that need minor repair
for free.  To find a stove at any price, at least around here, you have to
look for a while so you may want to start scouring the ad rags now.  If you
don't have a chimney you will have to add one.   Great double wall chimney
systems are not too horrifically expensive though.

Anyways, this is cheap, easy heat that would especially be great for the
smaller shops less than a 1000 sqft - give or take depending on climate.

Spencer Yost
Owner, ATIS
Plow the Net!
http://www.atis.net