[TheForge] Re: Heating with woodstove OT

[Ralph Douglass]

Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the numbers on your heating setup, Ralph.  It'll give me a
> starting point to ask questions here.  I expect to do something for
> heat in my 1200 sq. ft. shop this year.  Ten ft. ceiling and an upper
> story where Peggy has her looms.  We need to heat her 600 sq. ft. more
> than mine -- weaving is fiddly finger-work and/or sitting-down work)
> but it would be nice to have my space up to 50 (or at least 40)
> deg. F.  And I can't afford $400/mo propane bills either.
> 
> Despite heating the house with wood, I don't want to go with an indoor
> wood stove in the shop.  Don't want oil.  Mumble.....mutter.
> 
> On the original question, I found that a 50-gal oil drum wood stove
> would get my previous shop up to comfy (for all but fiddly little
> finger-work) in about four hours, starting with all that iron
> heat-sink at ambient -- say, 5 to 20 deg. F.  Interior walls but no
> insulation. If I'd had New England/N. Dakota outdoor temps of 20 to 40
> below, It would have been totally useless.  Our coldest spells here
> are c. -10 F. at night, 0 daytime.  Maybe 15 to 20 deg warmer
> than northern NH.
> 
> - Mike

Not that this really will help, but....

At the blacksmith shop at Fort Vancouver NHS, we have a replica type
cast iron wood stove. for winter heat ( and we cook stew on it as well)
It was made by a foundry in Canada about 20 years or so ago.
6 plates. The side ( bigger) plates are about 2 1/2 feet by 3 1/2 feet.
It may not warm the shop to blamy temps but the shop is also about 30 by
25 feet.

Ralph

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