Found Shop Heat

[BIGNASTY]

I was looking for heat for my shop and found what I was looking for. In CA we had citrus orchards around us and ever so often it would get cold :-laf compared to where i'm at now that was a joke. But anyway I was looking for something that would heat my shop without using electricity. This burns diesel and is pretty fuel efficient actually for the amount of heat that it puts out.



Just to a word of advice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU DO NOT WANT ONE OF THESE FOR A GARAGE TYPE SHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to mount it to a rotary lawn mower base with the motor removed so I can roll it outside or other places in the shop.



My Son lives near these orchards SOME HOW THIS JUST LANDED IN HIS TRUCK. as he was leaving to come up for Vacation. Imagine that if you will

 

[Rockranch]

Looks... interesting. How, exactly does it work? Where do you light it, how much does it smoke, can it be used in an enclosed shop, etc. ?

Thanks,

Larry

 

[BIGNASTY]

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This guy is a moron and dont look at what he does but it kind of gives you an idea my shop is 40ft by 68 ft and the door is 15 ft high the roof another 15ft above that with vents so gives you an idea of dont use this in small shops. His is an older kind that has very little control on it. The newer ones like the picture have way better fire control and more heat output. Also there is a difuser type deal on mine that the flame wont get high and out of control

 

[Bob4x4]

... ..... always called them smudge pots.

 

[Nyoest]

Just wait till THOSE babies have to have EGR!

 

[KLauber]

Instant hair reducer device!

 

[SRadke]

They make heat no doubt. And really simple. But really not a great choice in enclosed areas.



And yes Bob, smudge pots.



-Scott

 

[GCroyle]

BIGNASTY,



I knew those to be called a salamander, no idea if its right wrong or a local name for it. We used it for standing around heat at winter time off road M/C racing back in Ohio. gives off a lot of heat and the guy that owned it ran it off of drain oil with just a splash of something more volatile to start it.



Gary

 

[BIGNASTY]

Instant hair reducer device!

Ya no kidding Ken the I said not to pay attention to the guy in the post ill bet one side of his head has no hair. :-laf



BOB 4x4



That's what I called them also but when the boy went to find them he called them that and they didnt know what he was talking about.



The person that sold him the one for me said that CA has done away with them because of the burning of fuel and the EPA/AQMD leave it to CA to be the first in line to be the A HOLE



Gary



This thing will run you out of the shop I open the doors on both ends of it and lit this off and put it at the far end and it took the chill off in the shop. I think the name that you used is a FL thing im sure that they had these also.

I took it out to the road and driveway and lit it off and the state road crew that stops by and has coffee and breakfast before they take the snow away that I have plowed to the road had no idea what it was. But my son now has orders for a few more.

 

[cojhl2]

Thats right,, that guy in the video is a moran. .



They are called Smudgepots as already been said. We had 100's of them in CA where I grew up.



They kept the Oranges and Lemons from frost bite after the Frost Alarm went off in our house.



They worked not only because of the heat but the haze over the orchard holding the heat down to the earth.



Many times I walked my mile driveway to the schoolbus in a dark overcast with smoke morning.



You light them by putting a bit of excelsior in the draft hole. Shut them off by closing them off and getting away. One blew up at our neighbor one time hurt pretty bad with burning oil all over the place.



The new technology (old being what the moran was using) just came out in the 40's about the time we left CA.

 

[RustyJC]

Devices such as the one below are what we generally term "salamander heaters" in the oil field. They can be powered by electricity, kerosene or diesel fuel. Some are gaseous fueled as well.



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Rusty

 

[B.G. Smith]

Up until today a salamander heater was the device in the top post to me and a smudge pot was the little black round jug with a wick in the top that you used to see on the side of the highway in construction zones(that was a few years back). We used some of the "smudge pots" at the plant at the rear of the maintenence shop when it got what we thought was cold. bg

 

[BIGNASTY]

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Sounds like different parts of the country just look at things a little different. The one post that said IT BLEW UP HOW? There is nothing to contain the flame or somehow cause pressure to build to a blowing point. Maybe used something in to that is EXPLOSIVE??? I just ran straight Diesel and runs just fine. Its not for enclosed shops to say the least. But if you need some heat it will do that. I put at the open door of my shop and it took the chill out of it.

 

[GCroyle]

My buddy that owned one called it a salamander, he did spend some time in FL, possibly picked up the name there as BIGNASTY suggests. I also would have called the burning "bowling ball" sized road construction zone marker a smudge pot.



This gets kinda fun, different names for stuff and it sure shows up here in SC. We're from OH originally and is it a POP or a SODA or a COKE? And if its a Coke here, what flavor Coke do you want?



Stay warm and safe.

 

[cojhl2]

Those were road flares in my world.

I probably was free with the term "blow up". although I was not there that morning I would guess what happened was that some big flame erupted out the damper hole and brought burning oil with it.

In the moran pic you notice all that black smoke,, it would be combustible yet so what if you slammed the top lid on with the damper open and a poof of oil laden fire jumped out the damper hole. .

Just gussin, I was only and kid and not there I just know he was in the hospital for some time with pretty bad burns.

If the morning after smudging was not a school day it was my job to drive the team pulling the oil wagon while and dad filled smudgepots.

And yes we and everyone else around used diesel.

 

[tkerrigan]

Here you go, make your own furnace that burns waste oil.

Mother Earth: Waste Oil Heater

Regards, Tom

 

[Dl5treez]

It's kinda pretty when about 2,500 of those are glowing in the orchards at night...