Combo Stove Heats Farm Shop

Combo Stove Heats Farm Shop WOOD STOVES/FURNACES Wood Stoves/Furnaces (20L) 32-1-40 Lloyd Fraase, New Berlin, Ill., built his own shop furnace out of an old 500-gal. LP gas tank. It supplies radiant heat and is also used to heat his shop floor. "It really works great. I use wood and waste oil in the stove so it provides very cheap heat," says Fraase. He cut off one end of the tank and installed a plate steel firebox. Then he installed a series of steel bars to form a grate. He welded in a 16 by 16-in. hinged door and also a draft and ash door at the bottom. After cutting the tank he built a bottom for it out of 1/4-in. thick steel plate. Waste oil is stored inside a galvanized metal pressure tank located about 4 ft. behind the stove. A continuously running air compressor that's located nearby blows air through a metal pipe that leads from the tank and into the stove. A venturi valve on the pipe sucks oil out of the tank and drips it on top of the logs in the burning chamber. A regulator is used to control the rate of drip. To heat the shop floor, water is delivered through a pipe into the stove and runs through coils installed above the firebox. A pump delivers the heated water through pipes under the shop floor "Before I cut the LP tank, first I filled it with water to get the fumes out. You have to be very careful when working on them," cautions Fraase. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Lloyd Fraase, 804 S. Farmingdale Road, New Berlin, Ill. 62670 (ph 217 546-7989).

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