[TheForge] Wood Stove for Shop heat

[David E. Smucker]

I heat my shop of about 3000 sq ft (60 x 48) with a home made wood stove. 
Works well, but we live in western NC and it is not super cold.  Cold here 
is in the teens at night, 30's days.  Shop walls are insulated but the shop 
ceiling is not -- it is on the to do list.  In Knoxville, TN I heated a 1500 
sq ft shop which had both a insulated ceiling and walls with a wood stove --  
there it was almost too much -- I could get the shop to 80 F if I kept a 
good fire going.

My current home made stove is made from line pipe -- the burn chamber is 24 
dia by 36 long.  This feeds a top drum which is from 14 inch pipe and 
divided down the middle so that the POC (products of compustion) has to 
travel the length of the top drum twice before it goings into the stack.

By the way, this is not an OT item -- if you blacksmith, you need a shop, if 
it is cold heat is good.

Dave Smucker
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Woolley" <wjec at verizon.net>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:53 PM
Subject: [TheForge] OT Wood Stove for Shop heat


Greetings,

Does anyone have any experience with Nashua woodstoves?  I don't think they 
are still being made but the specs I found on hearth.com look pretty good. 
I going to try to heat my shop with a wood stove. I need to heat approx. 18K 
cubic feet or 1500 sq. ft.  Is anyone heating that kind of area with a wood 
stove?

Regards,
Bill Woolley
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