Portable Salamander Heaters Diesel/Kerosene

Heat my garage on a mr heater salamander 250k btu diesel /kerosene forced air .
It will cook you out and no fumes at sub zero temps .
Minus is the thermostat is touchy and it's hard on fuel.

 

Tow Truck dude built a wrap around tent for the botton of my truck out of cheap tarps.when i jelled up in Faribault Mn and it worked.
That salmander he had was a life saver 50/50 fuel and it still jelled.
Should of ran straight #1 and a quart of ATF in each tank.

 

Had some ina shop I worked at. They work great for what they are. Don’t get too close and do not put gloves in front of it. One of the guys melted the gloves when putting hands in front to warm up. Ha ha

 

Im not going to say it was amazing, but i recently got a chinesium self contained diesel fired heater that definitely kept my sneakered toes toasty in a lightly drizzling 30 degrees, runs on 12v

It was the right price at 150$

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Amazon link is specifically what i bought

HCALORY 12V 5KW-8KW Diesel Air Heater, Portable and Convenient Integrated Parking Heater Heating, All-in-one Single Hole with Remote Control LCD Monitor for Car Trucks Boat Bus RV and Trailer https://a.co/d/aESbMRY

 

I agree with the other guys about figuring out some kind of a tarp or a way to enclose yourself.

Probably 20 years ago I had a truck and I broke down and I called my dad and he came out. It was pouring down rain and I had to get the truck fixed right away. It couldn't stay where it was.

Pop brought a big tarp and 2x4s and whatever else and we made a tent and had light and we were nice and dry and worked on it and that was that.

I also agree if you had a salamander heater of any size it would be hard to handle. There's no way I could lift mine up in and out of the truck if it had fuel in it.

As far as 1800 watts, I think the other person said, I have a 4,000 Watt inverter in my truck that will run that.

But you have to have the truck running. He works for me in my tractor because I can run my fridge and my microwave and whatever.

But by the time you spend four or $500 to buy a good inverter and you buy all the cables and you take the time to wire everything into your truck I think it's just much simpler to either get a very small generator or get the 3500 Watt Harbor Freight generator for a thousand bucks, plunk it in the truck, and when you're ready fire it up plug it in and you're done.

And if you ever have a power outage or you have any other kind of problems you have the generator.

 

Can you cook steaks on it too ?

 

Ya gotta plug it in too.