anyone burning a 200,000 btu kerosene torpedo in their garage/barn? What brand would you recommend. I've run searches online and it seems every brand from Lowes, Home Depot and TSC have about 50/50 mixed reviews. Each of these is around $400.
Lowes: Thermoheat 210000 BTU Kerosene Forced Air Heater
Home Depot: Dyna-Glo Pro 210,000 BTU Portable Forced-Air Kerosene Heater
TSC: Master® Kerosene/Diesel Forced Air Heater, 215,000 BTU
Grainger: DAYTON Oil Fired Heater, 125 K BtuH 120 V
Before you ask, my barn has no nat. gas and it will cost $1300 just to run a line to the barn so that is out of the question.
I'm running a 150,000 BTU one, my dad picked up from a garage sale about 20 years ago for $15.
Sometimes the fan gets a little noisy, or it doesn't burn fully, but a good kick usually fixes that.
I wish i could still read the brand because i'd buy another one of this fawkers
We picked up a multi-fuel Dayton from Grainger a couple years ago. I think it is around 150k BTU. Works great to warm the barn up quickly then we usually use the furnace to maintain the heat if we are gonna be out there for awhile.
Diesel is cheaper than kerosene right now, especially if you have access to red fuel.
I have a 60,000 btu multi fuel that I burn Diesel in, seems to burn hotter than the kerosene gets my 30x30 garage from 10-15 degrees to 50 in about an hour. Would like to pick up another multi fuel in a higher BTU output.
88mudder has or had a Reddyheater that ran on different fuels, it was awesome. Heats nicely and since we were running kerosene it wasn't smelling up the garage.
I have a Mr. Heater brand 75,000 BTU. Biggest POS I have ever bought. Low hours and have replaced some expensive electrical parts, only to have them go bad again right away.
They are all noisy, and they all smell horrid.
But they will melt things real quick when pointed the wrong way.
Not sure that's a plus, but I had to try and balance it out a bit.
i have a multifuel sears 110k that works fantastic in a 20x24 garage. my question is while there are little or no fumes on kerosene how is fuel oil and diesel out of these?
I ran kerosene in my multi fuel, until they quit carrying kerosene out of the pump locally. Then started using diesel and the diesel seemed to burn a little hotter and fairly clean. Little smoke at start up, but not to bad once its hot.
I was curious and dug deeper.
I have a 50,000 BTU ReddyHeater.
Still old as sin, but still works, been using it today without issue.
It heated up my 2 car garage, with only one insulated wall in under an hour to the point i didn't need a jacket, i use that to get it up to temp, and then i'm using a 30,000 - 80,000 BTU propane convection can to keep it at temp. only kicking on the reddyheater once in a while after i've been opening and closing the door to kick the temps back up.
I have an old Dayton that I use sometimes. It's a bitch to get lit, the fan screeches like a fire alarm and using kerosene it stinks so bad it makes my lungs hurt for a week. I try to avoid using it at all costs.
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