Oil & Fuel Kerosene?

[mike69440]

We pay very high electric rates.

I have solar, but still on grid. Make more power than we use and still pay. No net metering in the electric CO-OP as it is not a utility.
Also the utilities are stopping net metering.

We have a $30/month Meter fee, high delivery charges and high rates plus other fees such that you think it was a internet/cable/ phone/bank service?

Every few years they trim branches from electrical right of ways. Our poor trees are getting electrocuted!

 

[Doofy]

Amazing. Our electric co-op doesn't offer net metering either to small guys. We are on Hydro for 5 months of the year and diesel generation for the rest of the year. We pay around .28 per KWH. Could certainly be worse.

Sad, but my phone, internet and wireless service costs more than my electric bill! They make you pay for a land line to be a member and have access to their internet and cell phone service (for an exorbitant fee). Yippie!

Life is good though, a good woman, a good dog and a new tractor...what could be better?

 

[oldpilgrim]

My phone, cable and internet is well over 200$/mo and my electric is about 60$.

 

[Doofy]

Peacefulness and sanity trumps cost. I'd live here, even if cost twice as much.

 

[mike69440]

My phone, cable and internet is well over 200$/mo and my electric is about 60$.

Same here, but even considering we use 2-3X the amount of electricity of an average home being a farm, we are a net producer of electricity on a yearly basis, but our bill range from $40-$150/month

To go off grid, battery size cost would be huge, so until battery technology gets economical, we pay to have lights at night. Or burn kerosene lanterns. A lot of homes burned to the ground from kerosene.

 

[Mace Canute]

Stop by an airport and get some JP5?

For some reason my mind flashed to this.

 

[Doofy]

I've switched all my lighting to LEDs and my well pump to a Grundfos that uses very little juice. 3, 7 cuft chest freezers and a fridge are my highest power hogs. Cooking, Hot Water and Dryer are all propane... at about $25 a month.

 

[Mace Canute]

Jet fuel has additives that kerosene doesn't have which are designed to prevent fuel gumming, static charges, corrosion and icing. Some of these additives are cyclohexane, 1,2,4 Trimethylbenzene, benzene, toluene, napthalene, ethyl benzene and diethylene glycol monomethyl ether. While you can't avoid breathing the exhaust of the heater, there's no reason to subject yourself to breathing the exhaust from jet fuel which contains additives that can harm you. Stick with plain jane kerosene.

 

[Doofy]

Makes sense to me!

 

[tmcj]

I have the same heater and use mine all the time to heat my basement in the winter, or upstairs when the power goes out. My furnace for the house runs half as much with heating the basement also. LOTS of people here run kero heaters in their house all the time without issues. Of course, I wouldn't recommend leaving home with it burning and leaving it unattended, just to be safe. If you keep it clean and maintain the wick it does not smell bad or smoke and give anyone headaches. Practically every gas station around here has a kero pump. It must depend on where you live, but it is very easy to find here and tons of people use them without issues as long as it is maintained properly.

 

[Doofy]

It must be nice living in a area of the country that even has kerosene. Closest thing here is #1 heating oil. Not perfect but it will work. Any fuel smell makes me nauseous, after 40 years of furnace and boiler maintenance. At this stage in my life, all my heating units are all direct vent to avoid any stink.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

My first abode in Alaska was a trailer heated with a couple of those type heaters. Every fuel I used put out fumes in them, kerosine was the least offensive and the wicks lasted longer with the kerosine. I was glad to be done with them and never want to go back!

For portable temporary heat in a pole barn or such I really like the propane radiant heaters. The ones that clamp on the bottle are cheap n convenient. As they are radiant I like them best where I am working the most in the shop. They also use up a lot of air so make sure you have some ventilation in a smaller space. I also wouldn't leave it alone for very long.

Leaving Tok for Dawson city last spring it was -40°, none of the 4 stroke sleds wanted to start, we drug them into my enclosed trailer(with no insulation) and warmed them up for 30/45 minutes and they fired right up. So they put out some decent btu's for something with no power.

 

[Doofy]

We had one single day at -31, last January. I don't miss the extreme cold at all. Tok has always had the cold.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Ya, I'm glad I don't live in Tok, now Dawson City, I wouldn't mind a bit!

 

[Doofy]

Ya, I'm glad I don't live in Tok, now Dawson City, I wouldn't mind a bit!

Never took that Sled trip over the top to Dawson but lots of my friends have over the years and they always really enjoyed the trip.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I was in Northway one time and it was -62*, and NO I didn't shut my truck off! lol

SR

 

[Doofy]

-16 in Northway this morning. Sure a frigid dang place.

 

[fried1765]

I hate to disappoint you, but I would save the fuel and put this unit in storage. It will do nothing for heat in a pole shed.
We had one similar to that in a living room in the house for a few weeks but almost every time we used it somebody in the house would get a big headache. I stored it and moved it through a few moves and it finally went next to a steel pile so someone else could use it.

I have one, in like new condition.
Anyone want it?
Come and get it!

 

[k0ua]

I have one, in like new condition.
Anyone want it?
Come and get it!

Everyone of those things I have been around, stunk, and gives you a headache unless you open a door or window.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I've seen them both ways, stinky and clean...

Like was already posted, all depends on how it has been maintained and what was burnt in it...

SR