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Heater in the stand....options #6428254 08/28/16 09:08 PM
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My stand has been.open for last two years. Very large openings. Got pretty cold a few days.

I added Windows this weekend, did some patching, caulking.

The stand is about 5x5 and elevated about 4 feet. I have a little buddy about 3400 btu and a hunting buddy about 8000 btu.
I want to be warm, but not just hot from the source.
Thoughts.
Last year I put roll of toilet paper in quart paint can, poured alcohol and lit. I heard about this and wanted to try it.

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Little Buddy is all I need.


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Closed up and Little Buddy should be all you need. L B in a 5x7 will sweat me out.

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I've got a 5x6 stand and little buddy makes me take off my coat even on the coldest days.


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Just out of curiosity, how'd the toilet paper in the can with alcohol work out? We bought a place in '97 that I've found the remnants of several of those things in dilapidated, scrap plywood, lean-to blinds. As much drinking as was probably done (we also owned the place across the road), it's a wonder we didn't hear the ambulance on several occasions.


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Toilet paper/alcohol worked. It's a slow steady burn. Lasted couple of hours, very little odor.
Will pretty much just let you warm your hands.

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Originally Posted By: Roll-Tide
Toilet paper/alcohol worked. It's a slow steady burn. Lasted couple of hours, very little odor.
Will pretty much just let you warm your hands.


I've been in a travel trailer (with no power, windows cracked) 20 mi. west of Kermit with a propane burner, pretty much in my crotch, in the middle of the night, wind storm raging outside, on a hunt before. Wound up getting my best mulie.

I'm willing to try it! Thanks.


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If you are doing home made heating (or any fire based heat) be careful of carbon monoxide.
No smell, no warning, you skip off to sleep and never wake up.

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Originally Posted By: MClark
If you are doing home made heating (or any fire based heat) be careful of carbon monoxide.
No smell, no warning, you skip off to sleep and never wake up.

Mark


That's what I like about the Buddy heaters,they will shut off when the oxygen level gets low.

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For under 20 bucks a battery powered CO detector can be had at Target.
In the off season hang it in your garage.

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Re: Heater in the stand....options [Re: Roll-Tide] #6428627 08/29/16 01:29 AM
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I run a propane heater with at least one window open. Typically I have to turn it off because it gets too hot. Only thing I wonder about with propane heaters is if the glow off of them can be seen by deer prior to sunrise. Not sure if the blind looks like a jack o lantern or I'm just being paranoid.

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I run a Buddy heater in my 4x6 with a window cracked and have never had a problem. In fact this year I got tired of buying the little green bottles so I bought a hose off of their website for a 20lb and and welded a frame to set it in. Should last me all season!


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Rex, I was thinking the same thing. Got to freeze to sunrise. But I get the heart rate up walking to the stand.

Cr, that's a good idea, I have an extra hose. I can build a wood stand outside the blind for the tank, drill hose sized hole, run hose inside and be set......

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Buddy heater in all of our stands, the older I get the less I like to be cold.

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Originally Posted By: TexasKC
Little Buddy is all I need.


This....be careful with flaming alcohol.

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Here's the one I have in a 4x8 blind and it stays plenty warm even with a couple of windows open. I normally took my coat off with this thing going unless it was just really cold.

Only problem I have with it is that the little green bottles freeze up after about 2-2.5 hours. I plan to attach a regular tank and adapter to it this year in hopes that it helps some.


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I don't like the cold either. Thanks for the tips fellas. I just add more clothes as I normally sit out in the elements

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Originally Posted By: TexasKC
Little Buddy is all I need.


That's right!

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Warm up from the inside out - thermos full of hot coffee with a couple fingers of bourbon. On a colder day add a couple of hot hands chemical packs to the pockets closest to your groin.


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guess I shouldn't complain about being so hot natured ... I hunt in shorts most of the time. Temps have to get below 40 for me to even put long pants on. My last lease, I had a 6x6 blind about 12 foot off the ground. It had one of the old style porcelain coated rectangular bathroom heaters running off a 5 gallon propane bottle. Ran it very little last season and it would warm up the stand in about 10 minutes to break the chill.


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I prowl farmers markets, flea markets, and yard sales for those tiny little porcelain coated bathroom heaters. You can convert them to propane by drilling out the orifice holes just a tad with a torch cleanout tip chucked in a hand drill. Pretty little blue flame, can warm up a tin of cinnamon rolls on top of it, if you can find one with a flat top, and they don't make any noise.

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slow drifter, yes, that's the kind I'm talking about ... absolutely no sound like most of the coleman propane bottle type heaters that hiss


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I have a 6'x8' blind on a 18' tower blind and I use the Mr Heater Big Buddy and it works great.


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My Buddy heater will melt the wax right out of my ears if I'm not careful


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My wife usually sits in the stand with me, don't use heaters much anymore.

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