Shop Cold? Very Cheap Heat

[CrealBilly]

I have not built one of these bad boys but I've heard they are well worth the time spent. And it's fueled with a byproduct of all wood shops (sawdust) and just as good uses no electricity :gar-Bi

Link ---> http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=317

 

[Rob]

My former father in law heated his shop with a 55 gal drum stove, worked great. If I could figure out how to get the stack through my basement walls, I'd love to heat with wood.

 

[Glennbear]

Thanks for posting this to the library Jeff .:icon_thum I recall reading a reprint in Mother Earth News decades ago but that issue is buried in my collection. :gar-La; When using my planer I accumulate "fuel" quite quickly. :wsmile:

 

[gritz]

Look for a "thimble" to use where the pipe passes thru the wall. That protects wood, or masonry from too much heat. A google search or two will turn up lots of pipe options. Be sure your insurance co. will sign off as most ask for a testing certification of some kind.

 

[BKind2Anmls]

If someone could email it to me I'd appreciate it. I still get the downloading too fast error whenever I try to download anything.
Thanks

 

[mkepke]

Look for a "thimble" to use where the pipe passes thru the wall. That protects wood, or masonry from too much heat. A google search or two will turn up lots of pipe options. Be sure your insurance co. will sign off as most ask for a testing certification of some kind.

My thought too..your insurance co. might have a cow if you use a homemade furnace.

Also worth checking with your municipality or AHJ for those of us that live in building-code-controlled areas.

-Mark

 

[Martin Roper]

An alternative to burning loose sawdust is to save half-gallon cardboard milk or juice containers and fill them with sawdust and burn them like you would a log.

 

[taandctran]

amazing what you can do with a barrel. This is probably safer then a real wood stove. this has to layers and most wood stoves only have 1 thick layer. I say if you burn logs in this then they would burn even longer, and proably hotter then with saw dust.

 

[CrealBilly]

I especially like the idea of the removable inner 30 gallon drum. I been gluing up panels this week and I know I have filled and emptied a 20 gallon trash can at least 15 times with planer shaving and sawdust into the burn pit outside in the back yard. Needless to say, I could have filled several 30 gallon drums instead of dumping them in the burn pit and heated my shop if I had one of these bad boys. This heater is something for me to plan on building for next year... With the price of propane I simply can not continue to afford to heat my shop with propane any longer.

Green or not, I don't care - it's cheap heat...

 

[Mark Gottesman]

Here is the link to the Mother Earth News Sawdust heater.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1974-11-01/How-To-Sawdust-Stove.aspx

Here is a link to a VITA version
http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/VITA/SAWDSTOV/EN/SAWDSTOV.HTM

Just round things out.

Seems like a good idea, but fire and CO2 are a very real danger.

 

[Canuck]

If someone could email it to me I'd appreciate it. I still get the downloading too fast error whenever I try to download anything.
Thanks

Article EMailed, Susan.

Wayne

 

[petebucy4638]

My former father in law heated his shop with a 55 gal drum stove, worked great. If I could figure out how to get the stack through my basement walls, I'd love to heat with wood.

That is sort of my problem. My shop is on the first floor of a three-story home. Running a flue to the roof would be a major project.


Pete