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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] keroscene heaters
  • Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:06:58 -0700


Anyone tried the masonry heater concept to avoid refilling heaters in the
night? It's essentially just getting a lot of heavy block or brick around the
heat source to store and release heat after the fire's gone down.

paul tradingpost AT gilanet.com

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau

That is well said, replied Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet] Candide

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On 1/18/2004 at 10:02 AM robert schuler wrote:

>You did not say how small a house you want to heat. When I started out
>I had three 14x48' double plastic houses heated with 55 gallon barrel
>wood stoves they worked well but needed all night filling. I switched
>to K1 20000 btu heaters each house needed two heaters actually three
>per house would have been just right. Hauling K1 and spilling it on
>myself and the soil is a loosing proposition.
>I never had a problem with pollution damaging plants because hoop houses
>are drafty. Today I have large greenhouses that can only be heated with
>proper commercial greenhouse heaters and I can sleep easier at night.
>I still have one heated hoop house a 14x130 that is heated with a 200000
>btu Sunderman oil furnace, I use this house just in the spring for cool
>season plants.
>
>If you have just a small house of 100-300 sq. feet you should have no
>problem heating with K1. always remember to clean the wick with the
>heater outdoors... Bob.
>Sunny Meadow Farm
>Bridgeton, NJ.
>
>Old Timin' wrote:
>
>> I need to put a heat source in my greenhouse. I have a small
>> wood stove but it would require getting up in the middle of
>> the night. How are keroscene heaters. Do the fumes cause
>> problems. The other source I wondered about was chicken
>> brooding bulbs. I love the idea for using an incubator for
>> germinating seed. I have a big,600 egg sears model I use for
>> eggs but will also use for plants this year.God Bless,
>> Kevin Miller (NW Ohio, Zone 5)
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