This note is in response to your question about how to capture the heat. I have a kerosene/diesel shop heater, if you know the type you would also know that the noise and exhaust is unpleasant even when your cold. I bought a bunch of stove pipe 90's (degree) and made a "up left, up right, up left, up right etc. until I exited the room with chimney cap. I can put the heater outside with it's vortex fan and flame noise, and exit the exhaust out the roof. I'm left with radiant heat from the "coil of 90's. Not as good as that straight jet on me for heat, but better for my health. Thanks Sceww Googlle, This is a building block venue. wj
Late comment, but you should plumb that thing through a semi truck intercooler. Put the intercooler on top and use it like a chimney pipe, would work maybe.
Hello Mr. Googlle on that smudge pot you can use stove pipe from the top of smudge pot and hock it to high heat duck work then you can hang the duck work then from the other end of the duck work run stove pipe or the duck work back outside so no smoke inside your shop and MAKE SURE THERE IS NO LEAKS..And for the hot water you can wrap copper pipe around the stove pipe or near by it and run it to the 55 gal drum and it is self feeding as long there is water in the drum i forgot some on that info
I have one, but mine has all of the extras, minus one vertical for the top cap and top cap, but it has the stand, directions and damper and shut off cap, what i do is put a 90 and a 3 foot section and run it out the door, the only bad thing is when the oil gets too hot, it tends to boil over sometimes,
To all the people freaking out about how burning oil is bad for the environment......we used to burn tires to keep our orange groves from freezing......so smudgepots ain't that bad now are they.
I will add that the oil exists regardless. I mean it's just a fact. So whether it is burnt or disposed of any other way it's still 'bad for the environment' no matter what. At least this stuff has had multiple uses in its life-cycle unlike driving a car etc. And when you heat your shed or whatever with electricity all you are really doing is moving the coal pollution elsewhere.
I would not use a much as he did but vegetable oil is very smokey until it gets up to temp. A little gasoline on the top of the oil helps create heat quiickly. Another trick is getting it started with a blowtorch. This avoids the smokey start-up period. I once had a firetruck show up at my house while using olive oil to start my grill.
The Smudge pots burn so hot there is very little smoke except when first starting up and shutting down. You do have to close down the amount of air right after it gets going really well... to make it burn as clean as possible.
@@jesussaavedra421 I burned oil straight...no need to add diesel. I put a little gas on top just to get it started...But THAT IS DANGEROUS and not suggested ...if you do use gas to get it started don't allow the gas to sit on top for more than a second or two...the fumes will explode if you give it too much time.
