jpdrake
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how do you guys heat your garages in the winter? i have a 1 car garage that id like to make 2 cars in the next few years? i live in mass. its only 25* out
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i have a dream "of a warm garage"
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I store mine in La. 
Thunder
3/4 ton status
I have a nice toasty fire in my shop stove going right now. Is is below freezing outside. Bout 72 here in my shop. I have a wood stove with a blower. Free heat!
Xtremegmc80
1/2 ton status
i dont have a garage of my own yet, but i can help. my dads shop is warmed by coal, but boy does it get hot sometimes even in zero degrees weather.. whew man.
nad
1/2 ton status
I use a propane heater, but I only have a 1 car garage, and my truck barely fits in it.
Never have to in Cali. Just wear a sweat shirt. Porpane heaters are good if your going to have the door open but you need ventilation ofcourse. I used to have a 100,000 BTU propane tube type heater and would keep it about 20 feet outside my garage and just let it blow the heat inside with the door open. I had a 1 car at the time. It worked great. but you probably want, or need to have the door closed in that kinda cold. Electric heaters I would say are the best, but they take alot of electricity to run usually.
Porpane heaters are good if your going to have the door open but you need ventilation ofcourse. I used to have a 100,000 BTU propane tube type heater and would keep it about 20 feet outside my garage and just let it blow the heat inside with the door open. I had a 1 car at the time. It worked great. but you probably want, or need to have the door closed in that kinda cold. Electric heaters I would say are the best, but they take alot of electricity to run usually.
nad
1/2 ton status
My propane heater has a hose that runs to the propane tank. I just set the tank outside, close the garage door, leaving a crack at the bottom to keep from kinking the hose. Works awesome.
Thunder
3/4 ton status
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I would not want my K5 to get cold Brrrrrr
I would not want my K5 to get cold Brrrrrr
I have no shop right now.
My previous home had a 24x32 shop with 10' side walls and I had a woodburner in there. The shop was uninsulated but the burner still did a good job of keeping it warm inside. Unfortunately, I did not stay there long enough to insulate it to test how hot it got. I can only imagine it would have been hotter than hell.
In that same shop, my woodburner was two 55 gallon drums laid on the sides, one on top of the other with 6" diameter pipes separating the two. Heat would transfer into the pipes and up to the top barrel to put out even more heat. I used old oil to get the fires going faster and hotter. Shredded paper and small wood bits and pieces with the oil sitting on the bottom, that sucker lit up quick. Several times I've used it, I've had the lower barrel glowing bright cherry red from the heat the oil put out.
My previous home had a 24x32 shop with 10' side walls and I had a woodburner in there. The shop was uninsulated but the burner still did a good job of keeping it warm inside. Unfortunately, I did not stay there long enough to insulate it to test how hot it got. I can only imagine it would have been hotter than hell.
In that same shop, my woodburner was two 55 gallon drums laid on the sides, one on top of the other with 6" diameter pipes separating the two. Heat would transfer into the pipes and up to the top barrel to put out even more heat. I used old oil to get the fires going faster and hotter. Shredded paper and small wood bits and pieces with the oil sitting on the bottom, that sucker lit up quick. Several times I've used it, I've had the lower barrel glowing bright cherry red from the heat the oil put out.
My rig doesn't fit in the garage so I get to do all my wrenching in the driveway... I just put my coveralls on and lay down on the concrete and continue to tell myself its good for me and that it builds character 
My dad on the other hand... yeah he doesn't buy that (but I still get him out there from time to time)
My dad on the other hand... yeah he doesn't buy that (but I still get him out there from time to time)
Well my truck won't fit in my garage. Thank god I can slip it in to the one at work.
When I'ld used to use my father's garage it was heated with wood; big double barrel stove. It was always quite an affair (especially when the temps really dipped - northern NH). You'd have to start the fire, sometimes go back inside, then come out a half hour+ later (and it would still be COLD). Takes a bit of fiddlin' to get them heating well. Good when you spent the whole day in the garage, PITA when only had an hour or so to work/play.
I'd check into some type of waste oil heater. Even if you only heat when you work, it would be alot less "feeding the fire" time. There are even plans for DIY waste oil burners on the 'Net.
At the very least a wood burning stove with a "waste oil drip" can push a bunch of heat into the shop.
When I'ld used to use my father's garage it was heated with wood; big double barrel stove. It was always quite an affair (especially when the temps really dipped - northern NH). You'd have to start the fire, sometimes go back inside, then come out a half hour+ later (and it would still be COLD). Takes a bit of fiddlin' to get them heating well. Good when you spent the whole day in the garage, PITA when only had an hour or so to work/play.
I'd check into some type of waste oil heater. Even if you only heat when you work, it would be alot less "feeding the fire" time. There are even plans for DIY waste oil burners on the 'Net.
At the very least a wood burning stove with a "waste oil drip" can push a bunch of heat into the shop.
roadnotca
3/4 ton status
I installed new springs (TC EZ X 4) in my garage, over the break between Christmas and NY, last year. I use one of those 20 lbs. LP BQ bottles with a single cat. burner head on top. Crack the peep door, stayed at about 70*. That's starting at about 03:00 in the O'dark AM each day.
Planning to install PowerTrax in the '07 this coming Holiday break.
Planning to install PowerTrax in the '07 this coming Holiday break.
Ya for Holiday truck parts installs! We need to start a thread
Read this link for cheap DIY heaters: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me4.html
original balzer
1/2 ton status
salamander heaters work good for short time spent in the garage they heat it up fast. They are the torpedo lookin things either propane or diesel.
http://www.masterdist.net/universalheaters/forcedair/propane/170-f.html
http://www.masterdist.net/universalheaters/forcedair/propane/170-f.html
the 2dn pic in that link, right under the guy, I machined a piece for that heater set up for a member here. dont remember who it was now. he saw my bearing race/seal driver tool I was making and hit me up about machining one up.
kerosene or diesel, either in the wick heater or elec burner. Thinking of getting a wood stove though, as I am sitting on 3 cords. and we have like 98592 sq miles of beetle kill forest here in CO = cheap wood.
nad
1/2 ton status
I used to use an old kerosene heater in my old garage, but the fumes got so bad in there it would almost make anyone in the garage pass out.
nad
1/2 ton status
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I would not want my K5 to get cold Brrrrrr
Not to hi-jack this thread, but I wanna see a pic of your K5, it looks like it has the same color scheme as my Jimmy. Never seen another one with the same scheme.
