Blind heaters

[roymunson]

If it's tight you'd be surprised at how much heat you can retain.

This gun season I've made a living with a sunflower MR Heater and a 1 pounder. Feel sad for all the schmucks freezing out there. hoodie in a blind and I'm comfortable as can be.

 

[Mudslinger64]

I have two single burner stoves by NU Way.....and one double burner stove. It gets cold where I am. If I buy another Nu Way stove.....I will definitely buy a two-burner stove for my blinds. The single burners come up short when the temps get into the single digits.....IMO.

Thank you

 

[Mudslinger64]

I have a two burner model but don't remember if it's the 8 inch or 10 inch tubes. Only three of my walls are insulated garage doors. Fourth wall isn't fully insulated yet. Was single digits out the other day and was warm enough to take my coat off after 15 minutes. Was down to one burner and stocking footed after an hour or so. I highly recommend one of those wood stove fans to circulate air, and a damper on the stovepipe.

Thanks, I will definitely be getting a fan.

 

[swat1018]

I know this is an old thread but I’m building a 6x6 out of insulated garage door panels, I’ll be using them for the floors and roof also. I plan on getting a nu-way propane heater but not sure if i should go with the model 2000 which is 12,000 btus or if I should just get the 3500 dual burner. I live in northern Minnesota and it will get down to single digits and a little below zero sometimes, what one would you suggest? I think I already know the answer but would like to hear from someone dealing with a similar situation.

We make ours the same way except the floor. Use sliding pole barn windows. Put double-pane in the last ones won't do that again. Even if you fire up the heat it won't melt frost on outside pane. Hard to scrape ice off without making noise / movement.

 

[Foggy47]

Thanks, I will definitely be getting a fan.

I bought a fan two seasons ago. I've just used the fan with a Buddy Heater so far. But, those little fans work pretty slick. I think I will add those to my single burner NuWay stoves.......as they really dont quite put our adequate heat when the temps get in the single digits. Wish I had just bought double burners.....as they do not cost that much more.....or take up much extra space (just a few inches).

 

[Mudslinger64]

I bought a fan two seasons ago. I've just used the fan with a Buddy Heater so far. But, those little fans work pretty slick. I think I will add those to my single burner NuWay stoves.......as they really dont quite put our adequate heat when the temps get in the single digits. Wish I had just bought double burners.....as they do not cost that much more.....or take up much extra space (just a few inches).

Ya I think I’ll just get the nu-way 3500 double burner since you can just use 1 burner if you want, thanks.

 

[Mudslinger64]

We make ours the same way except the floor. Use sliding pole barn windows. Put double-pane in the last ones won't do that again. Even if you fire up the heat it won't melt frost on outside pane. Hard to scrape ice off without making noise / movement.

I never thought of that, thanks.

 

[swat1018]

I never thought of that, thanks.

Yea we didn't either!

 

[Skeeter]

As much as I like my nuway heaters, I do believe they have one flaw. It seems to me that they are made for left handed people. Being right handed, I prefer to operate the stick lighter with my right hand. That leaves my left hand to operate the valve that allows the gas to flow before the burner is lit, which is on the right hand side of the stove. Also, the door opens to the right so I have to maneuver around it to get the lighter in there. First world problem for sure, but it is a little annoying.

 

[Foggy47]

As much as I like my nuway heaters, I do believe they have one flaw. It seems to me that they are made for left handed people. Being right handed, I prefer to operate the stick lighter with my right hand. That leaves my left hand to operate the valve that allows the gas to flow before the burner is lit, which is on the right hand side of the stove. Also, the door opens to the right so I have to maneuver around it to get the lighter in there. First world problem for sure, but it is a little annoying.

Agreed! Could be better. The other thing I noticed is that the catch on the door....is starting to bind. Maybe a drop of oil will solve that....but it has gotten hard to operate without bending the metal. I do not have time to maintain such little nuances like this. Stuff has gotta work around my place.

 

[Bill Loser]

As much as I like my nuway heaters, I do believe they have one flaw. It seems to me that they are made for left handed people. Being right handed, I prefer to operate the stick lighter with my right hand. That leaves my left hand to operate the valve that allows the gas to flow before the burner is lit, which is on the right hand side of the stove. Also, the door opens to the right so I have to maneuver around it to get the lighter in there. First world problem for sure, but it is a little annoying.

Finally,something made for the better half of society!

 

[PoorSand]

We use pop-up blinds and typically have plenty of window area open for ventilation.

We used Stansport "Portable Outdoor Propane Radiant Heaters", but after about a couple dozen or so uses, the red thermocouple override valves would stick on cold mornings and we couldn't get them lit. I'm guessing it was due to moisture or glunk buildup in their shuttle valves.

We found Hot Devil "Portable Heater for Camping Outdoor Space Propane Heater 6200BTU Power with Control Valve" to work much more reliably. It has no thermocouple and therefore no shuttle valve.

 

[Skeeter]

Finally,something made for the better half of society!

You mean the ten percenters

 

[SD51555]

My neighbor showed me a catalytic heater this weekend. He was trying to engineer it into a heater for his Argo cab. He got it rigged up and showed it to me. It was silent.

Anyway, my mind got to spinning thinking this would be a great blind heater, but it’s gonna need some non-NPGA approved mods to put it onto a 20lb cylinder. This should be a 100-hour/tank heater. I just need to run down the parts and build an adapter to put it directly on a 20-pounder.

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[SD51555]

The 120 hour blind heater build is complete. Takes up a hair more space than the tank itself. A guy could also mount the heater alone with some savvy plumbing work and keep the heater outside, but I wanted mine portable.

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[Foggy47]

I damn near died from a tank mounted sunflower in a fish house. Luckily....the game warden came along to check our fish house.....and found the two of us passed out.....from carbon monoxide / lack of oxygen. Be careful.

 

[Brian662]

I damn near died from a tank mounted sunflower in a fish house. Luckily....the game warden came along to check our fish house.....and found the two of us passed out.....from carbon monoxide / lack of oxygen. Be careful.

A friend of mine and his boy came to my place this year during MN muzzle loader and hunted in one of my redneck blinds. It was spitting freezing rain during their hunt and they had a Mr Buddy heater going. About an hour into the hunt my buddy texted and asked if I could bring out my heater because his quit working. After thinking about it a second, I said that thing shut off because of low O2, crack a window and it'll fire back up. He said in his 25 years of using those in his ice shacks that has never happened to him to which I replied, "ice shacks aren't meant to be air tight like hunting blinds".

 

[bigboreblr]

Solar panel, trolling motor battery, and 12v heated blanket. Another trick a piece of pvc pipe. Put the pvc pipe through the blinds bottom and place it just behind your heater. Heats up the air without getting a cold shot from an open window.

No vented heated, if you got to close it up pack it up..........

 

[SD51555]

I damn near died from a tank mounted sunflower in a fish house. Luckily....the game warden came along to check our fish house.....and found the two of us passed out.....from carbon monoxide / lack of oxygen. Be careful.

We haven’t needed one in the enclosed blind yet. This one is gonna go in my homemade blind that doesn’t have walls, windows, or a floor. The walls are studs wrapped in landscape fabric, the shooting windows are just window screen stapled in, and the floor is wood chips. Worst that could happen is the temp won’t come up.

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[goatman]

I got a Nu-way heater for Christmas. It calls for a 6" vent. What do you guys do for this? Thinking about opening one window a inch. Window is 25" wide.