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Stock Tank Heater

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LingerLongerRanch

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Does anyone have the design/pattern/photo for a stock tank heater that burns wood, coal or corn cobs?

My brother tells me that our father had one in the 60's. I would like to have one built.

It would be nive to have one burning tonight, could be 25 below....
 
You shoud post this in ranch talk. Probably get more response.

Soapweed's son might build on in his welding shop. I know they had them but I can only remember a propane on I worked on all winter. :?
 
We used to have them made out of a heavy 55 gallon barrel...Just cut a hole in the top big enough to put wood, coal, twine, used oil, whatever in- bolt that top on hinges so you can close it-with a wing nut for a latch- cut a hole and stick a small stove pipe out the side above the waterline-with a 90 degree elbow so you can stick about 3-4 feet of vertical stove pipe with a damper on it- and you got it...
Set it upright in one of those galvanized round or oblong tanks and it will be ready to go...Stoke it up a couple times a day and it'll do the job...

You might want to put a screen in the stove pipe top- as I remember we burned a hay stack and part of the corral down once when the wind came up bad and blew sparks into the hay stack....Or don't stack any hay too close... :lol:
 
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Friday, January 9, 2009


A brutally cold air mass is still poised to dominate much of the Nation to the east of the Rockies for a good part of next week. We will start to see colder weather move into the western Midwest and the Northern Plains on Monday, and it will cover the rest of the Midwest and the Delta on Tuesday. An even colder air mass arrives in the western Midwest and the Northern Plains on Wednesday, and by Thursday it should be exceptionally cold for most places east of the Rocky Mountains. This cold will be entrenched right through the end of the following weekend, especially for areas east of the Plains. 50F below????????????
 
I had one that wasn't a whole big bunch different than what OT described. It was a square firebox with a chimney coming out of it and a front load door. Then it had two troughs welded on either side of the firebox.

It worked OK, but in the dead of winter at -40, you had to cover most of the trough off and just leave a small hole for the cattle drink at either end, otherwise it would start to freeze up.

Rod
 
I have a propane fired one. No sparks, no cutting wood, no hassle. Just fill up a Big propane bottle, light it and all is well. The wood, twine, used oil version might be more economical depending on time and labor cost.
 
We have at the farm a 1000 gallon tank that is buried long way down about 8 1/2 ft. out of the ten ft. We got a boat prop on the bottum and a 12 volt starter motor at the top. Turn it on and the warm water at the bottum is moved around and you have 45F water in a couple of minutes.
 
per said:
I have a propane fired one. No sparks, no cutting wood, no hassle. Just fill up a Big propane bottle, light it and all is well. The wood, twine, used oil version might be more economical depending on time and labor cost.
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We went to a propane heater after the other one burned down a haystack and part of the barn...Works good- altho once in awhile a bad wind will blow it out- and you have to relight it....
 

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