Posted by the tractor vet on January 09, 2022 at 08:56:31 from (108.220.145.239):
In Reply to: How many BTUs posted by 44 massey on January 09, 2022 at 00:13:29:
Well i am not up on all the new ways of heating a shop or how much ya need . what my buddy and i had was a 40x72x13.6 with about two inches of spray on insulation . the big heat loss was the sliding doors . In the far back corner sat and old 24 inch coal furnace and a ten dollar box fan . From the onset of days dipping down into the 50 during the day and 30's at night the fire was built and with out to much trouble and about and hour and a half i could take it from 50 degrees and have it roasty toasty 72-75 short sleeve comfy and we would burn around one ton a month . even back during the blizzards of 77 and 78 when we saw what some of you boys see regularly down into the -30's the shop was in the seventys . We would bank the furnace at night and shut the fan off and i don't care how cold it got inside never went below 50 even if we left it for a couple days with out lighting the furnace . For us Coal was the Only way to heat ------ since we were both hauling coal at the time and we were getting some of the best coal one could find in our area and that was Pittsburgh #8 . When he and i would go load at this one stripping operation We would tell the loader operator that we needed some of the PRIVET stock for heating . and what that was was coal from arouud the edges of the huge pile the larger chunks , Bob the loader operator would run around the pile when he had time anc clean up the bigger chunks rolling down the outside off the convair belt and build a pile for the ones wanting house coal as everything went to power plants and they did not want big chunks . Normally when loading we would load two loader buckets in the nose and two back by the tail gate and then one and a half in the middle and another full bucket placed the full length of the trailer as we pulled out usually giving us between 40-45 ton per load . when loading our SHOP coal he would dump two in the nose two in the middle and with the corner of the bucket fill the back end by the gate with the stove to lump size coal there then add a full bucket from the nose back almost to the lumpy stuff . We would then take the load home and once at the shop trip our gates and dump off the lumpy stuff close the gate then raise the bed up and level the load . next morning at 3Am we were off to Toledo to one of the power plants out that way with usually a 40-42 ton load and we had our winter supply of coal . It was a nice warm even heat . The other heat that seamed to work good were the Ray- o- vac. or tube heat and now the floor heat seams to be taking over . a couple local guys that hit big with there gas leases that needed to DUMP a bunch of money rather then give it to the gov . Built new dream shops and went with the infloor heat and heat BIg play rooms with two 80 gal. gas hot water heaters and keeping them at 72 degrees 24-7 . Now yes the gas is Free to them off the first wells that were drilled on them some oh gees 40 years ago on the Clinton push as back then everybody that got a gas well drilled got somuch free gas per year when the came in here a few years back they were HOGS and you did not get the free gas claws in your lease . Now that shop heat is nice and even and if ya got cold feet not no more while in the shop working .
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