A "Must Have" Accessory For Your Buddy Heater 

I know the model in the video is no longer available. Here's link to another model, but I don't have any personal experience with it, so I can't say how well it works. There are plenty of other models to choose from on amazon. (less expensive option) www.amazon.com/dp/B08M5NYD8M?ref=exp_everydayfishkeeping_dp_vv_d 8-Blade Dual Head Heat Powered Wood Stove Fan amzn.to/3bW89At

Easy to use right out the box ru-vid.comUgkxAvrAfikbUEMthp3AZ6iX5FKdiHfzy_RP . Next step is to get a heat activated fan to move the heat. I'm impressed by how long it can go on 1 lbs of propane at the low setting which lasted more than 6hrs. You'll have to adjust it lower than the low setting. Used for personal heating at 30° to 50° at low setting in an open garage, it's quite comfortable. It would warm up a good size single car garage if its closed off.

They truly are in door safe. I watched a guy do a test in his enclosed RV with CO meter/detector. After multiple LP cans with his buddy heater on high there was zero indications of any CO.

Love the Griswold plug setup

Nice! Nice and simple. Tank you

I should get one to stick to my back when I work out! Joking, I never work out 😂

I've got to tell you...This is one of the best enhancement videos I've ever seen. I have the same Buddy Heater and just got the Big Buddy to use at my car wash. I'm getting two of these because of you. I will use your link. They are a little pricey, but over time they will pay for themselves in less propane usage for the same heating efficiency. THANK YOU!

Sold my Buddy heater. It went thru those green propane bottles very quick. Nuff of that nonsense for.

Man this would be great to add to my heater in my box blind to help keep my kids warmer. Thanks for the idea I realize I’m kinda late I just stumbled across this video

I did this mod & it's absolutely spectacular! Instead of the plant stake, I just notched the back of the base with a grinder so it hooks on the grille

I purchased that exact fan last winter. We use it in our ice fishing shelter and the fan made a huge improvement in warming our entire tent which is 6' by 12'. No longer need to wear a coat when at the opposite end of the tent even when it's 40 below outside.

C Thank you I don’t have one of these buddy heaters but I do have a wood stove so I bought one off your site 🤩 Thanks for sharing the idea

If you get a connecter hose and run directly off the 20 lb. tank, you don't wake up cold in the middle of the night and have to replace the small (expensive) canisters.

Excellent mod that's easy to attach to Mr Buddy. Something I can do without having 2 use tools. 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I have a fan like that in our wood stove. It's a game changer.

4:15 the Blacked thumb nail gave me all the proof I needed to trust what this guy had to say. Thanks for the Advice I will definitely be looking in to do this for mine.

This is brilliant! I could have used this a few years back when I was using my Buddy heater in my tall 8-person tent. The air in the lower half of the tent was freezing and the air in the upper half was toasty. Getting dressed was a comical exercise in lifting our legs into the warm air.

This makes a lot of sense they should design one for these units for them.

Great ! I did the same last year…. I did learn that you may want to add a metal plate under the fan to prevent too much heat which could damage the fan wires… Cheers 🎉

That is a very cool fan thank you for sending me the link for that fan as soon as I save up a couple more bucks I'm going to buy one for my Mr Heater Big Buddy without the fan

I go this hack a year ago from another tuber, only caution I will state is pay attention to the operating temperature of the fan you use especially if operating indoors. These will last forever outside in the cold but indoors I have burnt out the Peltier chip that actually generates the power from the heat exchange. Just some xp here I can share.

Genius! Brilliant! Love it! These little fans are one of the greatest discoveries mankind has come with since fire :D

That "plate" on the bottom you showed is actually a bimetal spring designed to cantilever the fan so it doesn't over heat and fry the peltier. Nice idea in general but

Perfect my fan just came in. Thanks for sharing.

Love your tips thanks❤❤

I already have one, single fan for top of my wood burning stove at home, tried it on the propane heater and it worked great. Now I can use it this way in my 30’ trailer, much more efficient than the built in heater in the trailer for those cold Baja nights.

These fans work great on kerosene heaters as well. Had the same issue...needed to stand near it in the garage. Once that fan kicks on you can feel that warm breeze from several feet away!

Thank you for your generosity of experience

No propane heat is safe indoors. Always have fresh air coming into the room. I was speaking with a lawyer who handles legal cases where people have died from supposedly safe heaters being used without having fresh air in the room, tent, etc. Having said that, I have used these heaters. If you don’t vent the room, you can get what divers call “the bends” from lack of oxygen from these heaters. Gas is heavier than air so settles on the floor. Be cautious with anyone sleeping on the floor, and also pets. A little safety goes a long way. If you read the Mr. Buddy instructions, it plainly says not to use indoors. Again, I have used them indoors and gotten very sick until I kept fresh air in the room. Some people are more sensitive to gas than other people are. The vintage Shasta campers had aventby the cookstove that could not be covered so there was always fresh air.

I use one of these in my 5Th Wheel RV I live in! It's what saved me in the recent severe winter weather while power was out! 1 17# grill tank lasted 5 days with hose you can buy to make it hook up to the tank...

someone with good communication and design abilities should contact Buddy heater manufacturererrrr....and get this design implemented as a included and/or add on item to get the heater circulating better.

Wow this is prefect for use in my tab camper it my save me propane usage cool video wish you would show how it works with heater in low. Thanks much Lynn

Perfect for a truck camper....The furnace in the camper while sleeping using a set temp. wakes you up...going on, going off. roof vents and and a window cracked should make the cold nights perfect....thanks.

Thank You, never knew these existed

I had the same question and even plugged in an electric fan behind my heater. Thanks!

YO!!! Amazing. Thank you for this. I live in a bus. And need this for my Buddy

Peltier devices are genuinely amazing technology

I did this also with my buddy heater last winter and it works fantastic the double fans look the same to it makes such a difference the whole camper is warm now I highly recommend buying the fans as an ad on I paid about $72 for them off of Amazon 👍☺️😎✨

love the gold nail polish.

I just bought the Big Buddy heater with the built in fan. I use it to heat my portable fish house. I use rechargeable batteries and a 20 pound LP tank and I'm good to -30° f.

I'm so glad I came across this video

I have been hoping for something like this ever since I got mine (won it at a car show). This is perfect. Thank you for sharing.

Tinker with the attachment to sit more on the handle, heard it melted the wires on the back of this unit by a commenter below.

Great idea !

Thanks for posting this.

What a very good tip, thanks for passing it on. My sister has a few of these buddy heaters for emergency and I'm going to purchase two of these for her.

I bought this exact one for my Big Buddy Heater and it works great. If Amazon is out wait and get one as soon as they come back (they will come back). I think the double fan works better than the single fan but it looks better anyway

Just hooked up our Mr Buddy that is a max of 18,000 BTU. We are using it to heat one end of the house. We have a long ranch home and our fireplace is on one end so the heat doesn’t get all the way to the other end. Our furnace went out this morning and its in the teens at night. No tech till tomorrow who knows when. We have tons of propane but only two half full small green cylinders. One of those lasted 4 hours on medium which is amazing. We will be buying another of the same heater and a convection fan. Thanks for the great demo!!!

So.....I bought the exact little fan for my Heater Buddy. Before this, I was using a small usb charged fan. First of all, it made a slight noise and had a light on it. Second, who wants to charge it or plug it into something? Y’all get it. We just camped and the temps went into the single digits with high winds. I knew I’d be warm in my 4-person tent regardless, but I was wondering how the fan would perform. I attach mine to the top of the buddy’s heat guard using a small set of channel locks (which get HOT, so get em tight and leave it). In about 40 seconds, those fans start silently and start pushing that hot air out into the tent. No warm air rising above the heater. The winds were beating our tents and I could literally put my hand out and feel the hot slight breeze across the room. Get a fan that can take the high temps of the heater and the design of this one with 8 blades is awesome. Thanks for the post......it really is why I picked this fan setup. 👍. Everyone try the little channel-locks way of attaching if it’s easier for y’all......it’s works great. Much Love.........

LOL, I have my heater in the exact same place, on top of my dryer. My basement is cold so when I go down to do laundry I put it on to stay warm.

Just got mine in today, and tried it out. The fan blades were bent in a little too much from shipping I guess no biggie bent them back out and then some to get a little more crosswind on each blade. And damn it works quite well. Thank you for making this video.

Good idea!

Excellent idea thank you very very much and God-bless you my friend

Pretty cool. Not all of those heaters have the built-in fan that runs on batteries or an adapter. Some "regulations" or something to do with certain states. I pointed a Harbor Freight digital IR thermometer at the ceramic plate (it has 2 of them) on my heater while it was on low, from 3 feet away, and once it it hit 999° it went to +140°. Thanks for the pointers on these nifty fans.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I just bought one after watching this, as I'm Canadian and I do a lot of my work in the garage. This will most likely cut my propane refilling in half! Just started using it today. I love it. Thanks again.

I’ve see. Lots of vids of people putting those fans on their Buddy but those fans are the most awesome I’ve seen. They look like they were made for the Buddy!

OMG - this is awesome. I'm stunned at how well it works. Best $80 I've ever spent. Thanks so much for sharing!

Buddy Heater and DeWalt made a unit that takes DeWalt batteries and has a built in blower. It matches DeWalts color scheme (yellow, black).

Freaking awesome I thought the ones that were on the stoves were heavy I've never held one never seen one up close in personal. I use mine in my toy hauler because I don't have a heater in this one and it works great but this would make it work perfectly. Thanks for sharing this a cheap and easy fix

Good idea. Will definitely be getting one for my kerosene heater.

Yay! Ordered one before I saw this video! I thought that it would work! Wish Id seen this first to give ya credit w/Amazon

Shouldn't be any thumbs down on this idea. Maybe they're mad because they didn't think of it.

I did get one of these. Love it. Works as described. Thanks for the tip.

great tipper skipper 😁👍

Thank you ☺️

They must be back in stock. Just ordered one. Exactly what I was looking for.

Awesome. Thanks for posting this!

that's a good idea, pretty smart of you.. thanks.

I've never seen the double fan before. Genius!

Got that exact buddy heater and was researching those fans this morning, way to go!!

That's a great idea using the tomato stake to mount your fan I'll be watching for these twin fans to return to stock.

Thanks for the tip. I went straight to Amazon and got one. Can't wait to try it!

Great idea with the popurrí 😮

Yep it works great .I did this with a single fan 3 years ago . I heated my tiny house with it .

Nice. My older big buddy heater has a built in fan which uses batteries (don't think it comes that way anymore). But to save on batteries I will definitely be getting this fan. Thanks for sharing

Thank you! I was going to upgrade to the Big Buddy...very nice! The Gospel of John, when you're ready.❤️

Thank you for sharing this with me!

Awesome idea. I had forgotten about these fans. I have a Mr. Buddy Flex. I used a 1/2 inch aluminum angle on each side of the fan and have a great permanent mount for the Mr. Buddy., Thanks for the post.

Awww buddy, you just saved my arc😄! Seriously, I already have a Mr. Heater, now I've been introduced to Mr. Heater's buddy! Sold.

GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU. JACK

Brilliant!!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!

Thanks for sharing. I can already tell this is going to make a huge difference

I've been using a small electric fan behind mine but now I'm definitely getting this thing. BTW, you should use a refillable tank with a 4' to 6' hose. I use my Mr Heater every day and I spend about one fourth as much on pane as when I used the disposable cans, plus it's less hassle.

Haha I've been using one of those on my heater for years. It does indeed work well👍

I did the sme thing...got the fan at tractor warehouse..single blade though..still works fine!!!!!

Absolutely love the fan. I ha e been surviving in a camper through the winter here in Colorado with a Mr.Buddy heater. I pa pan from my smoker on it to add humidity. But the fan should still fit on it. Thanks for sharing.

The new model you show as the "alternate version" does not have the same hollow base so it looks like it would be more of a challenge to fit a mounting wire that would make attachment to the Buddy Heater possible.

great idea thanks

Great Video. Thank you for making the video. I'm very familiar with top stove fans set ups, as well as I was experimenting them for emergency situations, Table top stove, oil lamps and different other heat sources. As long top fins are cold and bottom hot, you are good.

That is so cool! Will order and even better, it now looks like a little heater man! Look at the face it made! 😁 eyes, nose and mouth… he needs a name now 😆

Just an FYI, that model is still onfor sale on Amazon if you look it up by name. But it is almost $100.00. The single fan models are cheaper, and honestly, the one I got is rated at something like 250-300 CFM and was barely over $30.00... Video coming soon...

Perfect solution for my Buddy, thanks!

I just ordered my dual fan! Great video.

I did something similar to what you are doing and I burned it up along with the Buddy Heater handle because of the trapped heat under the fan mount. So I did a re-think, I raised another fan 4 inches higher and wa-la it works great. Plenty of hot air. Of course, I did not use the fan you are showing in your video.

These types of fans are designed to sit on a flat surface such as the top of a wood stove. The metallic strip on the underside "lifts" the base slightly when over-temperature is detected, allowing it to cool. With your mount, that would not be possible and may explain why a few people are having fan failures. It's a great mod to the Buddy heater but might be improved by using a flat steel base instead of the bent wires to mount it.

very cool tip..thanks

A terrific idea, thank you!

Maybe a clay pot/candle heater behind that with scented candles? Even though it says indoors safe I would have an extra monitor to go along with it

Temperature gauge said too hot directly over heat. I put mine on the back slanted down to heat my feet in ice fishing shack with only part protruding over heat. Worked well all winter.

Great tip. Thanks for the video