Cedarcreek
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Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 513
Location: Eastern Montana
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 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I built one out of steel but made it out of 14 inch pipe, looks just like the one in cedarcreeks pictures . welded channel Iron down the side for a air intake, and pipe off one side of the top for a chimney. Start it with a wood fire then put a bucket of coal in for the night. Cost me 9 $ last winter for coal and if you leave the dampers open on a 400 gallon water tank you could hot tub at -30(hard on coal). Takes a bit of time to get the coal going well so you can shut the dampers down . The mine here is real good if you can get big lump coal it will last a long time. |
That's what we did. It would use about 1/2 ton of coal a winter. I quit using the one when I switched to an insulated tank with a propane heater. When we were using it there was 3 of us around to do chores, now it's just me and I wanted cut down on the workload so I could leave for a part of a day at times to go to the kids basketball games.
Sure is a lot cheaper than the electric I used temporally until I could make other arrangements. It was costing me $3.25 a day.
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