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Heated Shop Or A Sheet Of Tin ?

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With the cabin fever thread started I was thinking how many guys have large work shops that's heated where they spend winter days thinking about new toys. For myself its a pole barn thats colder then standing out side and at times laying on a sheet of tin working on something. :D
 
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That stinks makes you tough i guess. Of course its so expensive to heat your shop anymore i find myself learning about toughness! Whereabouts in Ohio you from?
 
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I consider myself somewhat lucky because i live on a farm we have a 20mX60M indoor riding ring i can use or a coverall which is 80'X40'. the down side is the riding ring has a very loose dirt floor and is not heated so expect to be cold and dirty and the coverall which is a tarped building has awesome light but gravel floor and no heat. but i count myself lucky in whatever i am working on is not buried in snow and i don't have to pack everything up and the end of the day and bring it inside

Steve
 
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Tell you what, those used oil heaters pay for themselves once you can afford them. They blast heat better than most of the gas fed furnaces I've seen.

Metal is kinda cold to lay on, wouldn't you go for something like cardboard or an old blanket? Something you could throw out after oils spilled all over it.
 
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haha do what i do everytime someone you know goes to mexico give em a 20 and tell em to get as many of those mexican blankets as they can with it lol. those things are awesome
 
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Autocar said:
I was thinking how many guys have large work shops that's heated where they spend winter days thinking about new toys. :D
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I think about that a lot myself... while laying on a sheet of tin.

And, if I expound much more about that fact, I'll trip the auto-censor!!!


OCR... :D
 
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Throw that tin away. Use a piece of 2' by 4' 1/2" plywood with a hole for a handle. It'll float on mud.

I must have done something good in a past life because the bosses built me a shop with concrete floors and in-floor radiant heating. To return the favor, I keep it at 55 degrees.:D
 
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Cold?

Hello.

I hang in South Texas, we would freeze to death if it got below freezing for more than a week!
Right now it is 61 with light rain.
 
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It is 3 F right now with a wind chill of -17. I will take my unheated concrete floored building over laying in the snow and having the wind blowing on me. If I have to have heat I fire up my torpedo heater and lean plywood around whatever I am working on and let it take the chill off or melt the snow off it.
 
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I presently work out of a 32x40 steel sided pole barn with concrete floor. Its gets you out of the howling wind for sure but absolutely no R value in steel. A piece of ply wood or card board like you guys mention gets you off the cold ground or floor. Had plans to insulate but was put on the back burner. Now I have sold the place and I am buying a small farm across town which has 4 barns. One of which is a 60x60 pole barn which is partially insulated and heated and concrete floors. I can't wait.
 
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Pray for me I'll be doing brakes tomorrow morning on my Dodge 3500 at 15* I was think the same topic this morning.
 
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Heated shop is so nice, you don't have to wear gloves for everything you do, and its not a pita to do anything.

I heard some people have heated shops in the winter, and cooled shops in the summer. If I were a canic that is where I'd want to work lol.
 
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Here this past summer I cut 16 foot 4x6 white oak and laided them down on 16 inch centers then layed 2x12x16 foot on top looks good but did shrink and every now and then I drop a wrench between them. So I made me a magnet on a stick and pull them out, and before anyone ask its nothing like soap on a rope :D But ruff sawed lumber is hard to slide on so thats where the tin comes in :D But as I look back on my life , life is good now it use to be tin in the open. Wind blowing so hard you had to wear goggles to keep your eyes from watering so bad. See what you southern guys are missing :D This morning 7 degrees under the truck adjusting the brakes no gloves 7/16 inch wrench you got to love it :D
 
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You ever notice when your shop is outdoors (like mine) or unheated, something needs doing on the coldest or hotest day of the week or year. It's always like couldn't this have happend yesterday when it was nice:Banghead
 
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Talking about the hotest day trying to repair something brings to the summer of 2000 I ran a broken off steel fence post though a 24.5x 32 skidder tire that was 16 ply. I got it back to the landing just when the bead broke,so I put the blade down and lifted her off the ground. I worked five hours trying to get it off the rim drinking about two gallions of water finally gave up and went to the repair shop. About five minuites he had it off and the spare back on. :D
 
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I am from the Northwest Ohio, flat as a board and fields as far as the eye can see. We probably arent real far away. I am in the Lima area. Its good to have some Ohio representation around here!
 
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