[AT] Shop heating

[Jeff Hall]

Spencer Yost wrote:

>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:
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>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
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I got one of these for free last year.  It has a tank mounted on the 
back of the stove.  It works great. 

Jeff Hall