anti-freeze no more

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mattia

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Looking to build a machine that will run at a low r.p.m to travel from place to place when I am working at night. I have a enclosed trailer and would vent all exhaust out, then would heat my trailer with the heat off of the exhaust.

Would this work?

Do you think it would get to hot? fry my motor?

Fresh air?

I would use anti-freeze no more if it worked. I would keep the trailer in a heated garage to prevent freezing between jobs in the winter.

Matt
 
What about just adding a little bit of antifreeze to your tank, that is if your pump circulates water into it when not in use. Would that damage the pump if its not too strong a mix?

As for running a machine in an enclosed trailer. I would think the fumes would fill up the trailer and kill the engine due to lack of oxygen.. or just burn it up. I really don't know for sure though. When I use my trailer rig in the winter I'm using hot water. I let it circulate around for a bit running hot then just drive 20 minutes to my next job. the hoses filled with hot water keep them thawed but I could be just lucky so far.
 
What if you ran fresh air to the machine, like a vent and tube, with some sort of fresh air filter, almost like a car.

Your emissions would run to your stack.

Just brain storming, and sick of running anti-freese thru every thing.

Matt
 
I personally use antifreeze but a friend of mine uses a heater in his trailer and when on the road the burner and engine are exhausted to the outside the gun is removed from the hose, and is drooped on the tank. He runs his machine on low idle so it is circulating the whole time. In severe cold weather single digits he runs the burner. You cant run the burner with the engine on low idle. with everything exhausted to the outside it stays fairly cool inside the trailer.
 
Hello Matt,

We use Lp infrared heaters in the back of our trucks. They are 16,000 Btu. They do need to have air (openings in the box). We never winterize any of our equipment on the back of our trucks.

Dave Olson
 

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When I put our Red truck in service I bought this old FRP (Reinforced Fiberglas) box on the old Dodge that we had been using since I had started my business.

A few times we would use it for a supply truck. In the winter we put one of our heaters in the back because we would carry chemicals and pumps that we did not want to freeze. We purposefully caulked any and all holes to make it real tight. Well we made it too tight. One cold winter night while at a customer location, I had to go out to the truck to get something. I opened the back door, I gasped for breath when I went into the back, and the little heater was about to go out (blue flame instead of red). We had sealed up the box to save the heat but didn’t allow it to get a fresh supply of oxygen.

We had openings in the floor but since the heat could not get out the top fresh air could not come in the holes in the floor!

Dave Olson
 

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what about making an air chuck and fitting it to a qc and blowing air through your unit when not in use.
 
I have one of my Hot water Powerwashers set up in my Enclosed Trailer and both the Engine and Burner are vented out. I Would never run This PW with the trailer closed because the Engine would fry.

In the winter when I go from Job to job the trailer stays warm enough in between jobs just from the Burner cooling off.

Here's a Picture of my Enclosed Trailier
 

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Our new service truck has a propane forced air furnace, much like an rv system. 34 gallon propane tank mounted on the frame, thermostat controls operation and can be set between 50 and 90 degree's.
I have it set at 50 unless were working then I turn it up to 70 or 80.
The furnance is mounted under shelves and use's three air vents that discharge hot air at 210 degree's
All heat exchanger fumes are exhausted on the outside of the 16 foot insulated box.
We used this system all winter long, working almost every night with night time temps way below zero with the inside temp having never gone below 50.
This has eliminated the need to keep truck stored inside and the need to winterize the Machines.
I do however keep a electric ceramic heater plugged in that would turn on at 40 degrees if the furnace was to fail! also have a wireless remote sensor that will trip a warning inside my home if temp falls below a set point.
The System runs off truck batteries when truck is not plugged into ac power to the on board shorepower system.
The truck was heated since Mid October 03 to late April 04 and only consumed about 150 gallons of propane @ $1.69 a gal.
 
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