Can you tell me about military can-style "tent" heaters?

heaters such as pioneer's trekker and the military H-45 are "can style" heaters that usually burn diesel, but the H-45 could be used for wood, also.

Are these useful heaters? Or are they really meant for outdoors (tents) and not as good for a cabin or garage?

I would use one for liquid fuels and not wood....but maybe some have experience with using these with wood or kerosene?

SKIN052 said:

Do you currently have a wood stove in the cabin or garage you are referring to? A wood stove with a oil drip option would be ideal. Those types of heaters are not meant for long term use, over a weekend maybe.

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No....what this is about is basically a type of "cheap" heater that could be used in my boyfriends (poor condition) 3 car pole barn. Actually, he uses a really old waste oil heater that is rotting out and all the electronic safety controls are broke. He runs it even if it "blows the lid off" but eventually the days of that heater are over because it is rotting out and also people give strange used oil- synthetics or stuff mixed with antifreeze...etc. A cheap big wood burner would serve as a replacement, too. But sometimes if a person wanted to go to work for a short time, they may not want to stoke up a stove because it takes too long. But those military cabin heaters are small too...he'd need a couple of them. Also I wondered about those heaters as emergency heat for inside an actual house. I think of silly things....like if you could vent (if using oil) out a large window....but yeah, that's not safe and I think these need a tall stack for draft....I'm only thinking about different heating....

SKIN052 said:

Wood/Oil drip sounds like a good way to go in your situation. If boyfriend is handy have him make up a barrel stove an incorporate a oil drip. Not environmentally friendly but they pack the heat.

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I wonder how you would do an oil drip... I am thinking of the drip oilers that are mounted and used for machine lubrication. I think these are either a cast iron mini troth or an "upside- down" metal bottle.