Kero is fine for the short term. You should consider getting a pile of raw coal. cheap and burns much longer than wood. get yourself several small wood burner stoves. Pre fab the approapate windows Meaning cut plywood to fit the hole and on one corner use sheet metal to plumb out the exhaust pipe. I live in Indiana and it gets vary cold as well. I am vary prepaired for the shtf. So If you are close and need help go to my channel. If you live close to Northern Indiana and need help Let me know...
Now gas power generators are probably your best bet they go outside and you put regular space heater in your main rooms then run it the generator . They run on gas and can go six to 8 hours and are affordable something like 150 to 3 hundred dollars for the generator( you get bigger more expensive ones that can run up to 12 hours but their like really hard on fuel.) With the small geni you go through a gallon to thee gallons per 6 to 8 hours and it's good for a back-up situation
Wood is better..cleaner and cheaper, just make you keep your chimney open when you use it and cover the out side of it with chicken wire so birds don't get in it. and build a nest in it. Also if you do go with wood get smoke and carbon-dioxid detectors. Otherwise natural gas is okay just keep generator handy cause i think they depend on electricity to work.
We know very little of the human health effects caused by fuel oils. Daily use of a kerosene stove for cooking should not cause any breathing problems for most people. People who use kerosene stoves to cook do not have more colds than people who have other types of stoves. Breathing moderate amounts of deodorized kerosene (fuel oil no. 1) has been shown to slightly affect the ability to smell and to cause a taste sensation.
@daylanrayne Breathing fuel oil no. 1 vapor for periods as short as 1 hour may make you feel nauseous, increase your blood pressure, be irritating to your eyes, or make your eyes bloodshot. Breathing kerosene or JP-5 vapors can also affect your nervous system. Some of the effects that have been noted in case studies include headache, light-headedness, anorexia (loss of appetite), poor coordination, and difficulty concentrating.
@daylanrayne Breathing diesel fuel vapors for a long time may damage your kidneys, increase your blood pressure, or lower your blood's ability to clot. Constant skin contact (for example, washing) with diesel fuel may also damage your kidneys.((fuel oil no. 1 (the most widely used fuel oil))kerosene, straight-run kerosene ,kerosine,range oil Deobase (the trade name of a clear, white, deodorized kerosene) also coal oil and JP-5 (jet fuel)
My wife and I live in Southwest Wisconsin where it get really cold during the winter season. We have purchased a backup generator and 2 small electric oscillating heaters from Farm and Fleet for emergency heat. They will not heat the entire house, but when strategically placed, they will heat a very large room 14x18 quite sufficiently. There is NO SMELL, as the generator is outside the house. We got out the sleeping bags and make the best of it. Hope this is helpful. 3500-4000 Watt Generator.
Thinking of going kerosene also. Though I have bee looking at videos on WASTE OIL HEAT. I am a Service Manager at a FORD DEALER SERVICE SHOP and can get all the waste oil I need for free. Would like to use waste oil in these kerosene heaters but I am sure it will SMOKE BLACK and maybe cause me severe damage too. NOT SURE THOUGH.
@DemonicDemolition Yes I agree it'll smoke. A local repair shop here has a furnace that burns waste oil. Maybe there's a site on the net with more info.
@n2wds Didn't know if it would smoke to the fact that I make homemade oil lamps and I do use the waste oil in them. When I trim the wick to a minimum it will not smoke and does put off alot of light and alot of heat. I was thinking just making a very large lamp like this with a very large wick if it would work?
i dont have a fireplace, and I dont want to waste money on electricity or gas for a heater, and i dont want to keep buying kerosene. just make an investment on weather insulation on all the walls of your house, and door strips, and get windows that keep the heat in. get the most expensive thickest weather insulation, and your house will be a lot warmer for free the rest of your life
@jenn1ifer Insulation is a wonderful thing, as is a heating source...especially when one lives in the northern part of the country where the cold winter winds blow December through March.
Having multiple heating solutions is the way to go. Kerosene is a good solution, but for a long SHTF situation, you will need to come up with a way to store a lot of kerosene. I strongly suggest you think about a wood stove. Even if you have difficulty cutting and hauling wood, you can use your other skills to help you, i.e. use your canning skills to barter with someone to stack wood inside your house. Use this as a back up to the kerosene.
For the short term I'll be going the kerosene heater route. Long term wood heat will be the answer....I've got the wood stove just need the piping and installing it. Thanks.
FYI Kero is normal 1.9 gal and good for 10 to 12 Hrs. So a 5gal can goes fast...
MrAnsweres 3 months ago
Kero is fine for the short term. You should consider getting a pile of raw coal. cheap and burns much longer than wood. get yourself several small wood burner stoves. Pre fab the approapate windows Meaning cut plywood to fit the hole and on one corner use sheet metal to plumb out the exhaust pipe. I live in Indiana and it gets vary cold as well. I am vary prepaired for the shtf. So If you are close and need help go to my channel. If you live close to Northern Indiana and need help Let me know...
MrAnsweres 3 months ago
those corn stoves looks like a great stove chek it out
africanhayabusa 7 months ago
Now gas power generators are probably your best bet they go outside and you put regular space heater in your main rooms then run it the generator . They run on gas and can go six to 8 hours and are affordable something like 150 to 3 hundred dollars for the generator( you get bigger more expensive ones that can run up to 12 hours but their like really hard on fuel.) With the small geni you go through a gallon to thee gallons per 6 to 8 hours and it's good for a back-up situation
daylanrayne 8 months ago
Wood is better..cleaner and cheaper, just make you keep your chimney open when you use it and cover the out side of it with chicken wire so birds don't get in it. and build a nest in it. Also if you do go with wood get smoke and carbon-dioxid detectors. Otherwise natural gas is okay just keep generator handy cause i think they depend on electricity to work.
daylanrayne 8 months ago
We know very little of the human health effects caused by fuel oils. Daily use of a kerosene stove for cooking should not cause any breathing problems for most people. People who use kerosene stoves to cook do not have more colds than people who have other types of stoves. Breathing moderate amounts of deodorized kerosene (fuel oil no. 1) has been shown to slightly affect the ability to smell and to cause a taste sensation.
daylanrayne 8 months ago
@daylanrayne Breathing fuel oil no. 1 vapor for periods as short as 1 hour may make you feel nauseous, increase your blood pressure, be irritating to your eyes, or make your eyes bloodshot. Breathing kerosene or JP-5 vapors can also affect your nervous system. Some of the effects that have been noted in case studies include headache, light-headedness, anorexia (loss of appetite), poor coordination, and difficulty concentrating.
daylanrayne 8 months ago
@daylanrayne Breathing diesel fuel vapors for a long time may damage your kidneys, increase your blood pressure, or lower your blood's ability to clot. Constant skin contact (for example, washing) with diesel fuel may also damage your kidneys.((fuel oil no. 1 (the most widely used fuel oil))kerosene, straight-run kerosene ,kerosine,range oil Deobase (the trade name of a clear, white, deodorized kerosene) also coal oil and JP-5 (jet fuel)
daylanrayne 8 months ago
My wife and I live in Southwest Wisconsin where it get really cold during the winter season. We have purchased a backup generator and 2 small electric oscillating heaters from Farm and Fleet for emergency heat. They will not heat the entire house, but when strategically placed, they will heat a very large room 14x18 quite sufficiently. There is NO SMELL, as the generator is outside the house. We got out the sleeping bags and make the best of it. Hope this is helpful. 3500-4000 Watt Generator.
762x54RMN 1 year ago
Thinking of going kerosene also. Though I have bee looking at videos on WASTE OIL HEAT. I am a Service Manager at a FORD DEALER SERVICE SHOP and can get all the waste oil I need for free. Would like to use waste oil in these kerosene heaters but I am sure it will SMOKE BLACK and maybe cause me severe damage too. NOT SURE THOUGH.
DemonicDemolition 1 year ago
@DemonicDemolition Yes I agree it'll smoke. A local repair shop here has a furnace that burns waste oil. Maybe there's a site on the net with more info.
n2wds 1 year ago
@n2wds Didn't know if it would smoke to the fact that I make homemade oil lamps and I do use the waste oil in them. When I trim the wick to a minimum it will not smoke and does put off alot of light and alot of heat. I was thinking just making a very large lamp like this with a very large wick if it would work?
DemonicDemolition 1 year ago
i dont have a fireplace, and I dont want to waste money on electricity or gas for a heater, and i dont want to keep buying kerosene. just make an investment on weather insulation on all the walls of your house, and door strips, and get windows that keep the heat in. get the most expensive thickest weather insulation, and your house will be a lot warmer for free the rest of your life
jenn1ifer 1 year ago
@jenn1ifer Insulation is a wonderful thing, as is a heating source...especially when one lives in the northern part of the country where the cold winter winds blow December through March.
n2wds 1 year ago
Having multiple heating solutions is the way to go. Kerosene is a good solution, but for a long SHTF situation, you will need to come up with a way to store a lot of kerosene. I strongly suggest you think about a wood stove. Even if you have difficulty cutting and hauling wood, you can use your other skills to help you, i.e. use your canning skills to barter with someone to stack wood inside your house. Use this as a back up to the kerosene.
boomd1791 2 years ago
For the short term I'll be going the kerosene heater route. Long term wood heat will be the answer....I've got the wood stove just need the piping and installing it. Thanks.
n2wds 2 years ago