Heating a new metal building

[jrdepew]

I would probably just buy a barrel stove kit and heat with wood. Barrel stoves put out a lot of heat really fast. we used to have a 5gal bucket hanging on the wall we would dump our waste oil in. We used a small pitcock valve and copper line and ran it into the barrel stove. This let the oil drip down onto the wood. You could throw a large round in the stove, turn on the oil, light a paper rag and throw in and pretty soon you have a roarinfg fire. Seemed as long as the oil dripped, the wood never burnt up. One log would last all night. Throw a pot of beans or stew beef on top of the stove and cook your dinner while you work.

My buddy made a home made barrel type stove out of a huge piece of sewer pipe. We hooked an oil drip for used motor oil in that...What a difference in how long we could get a fire to last!! The garage was 22x28 and totally uninsulated, with gaps in the siding and some window panes covered with cardboard, and it would get warm enough in that garage that all you needed was a sweatshirt. Standing within 3 feet of the fire would turn you into a piece of toast.

Joe