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Traveling with your wheelhouse heater on ??


JakeJ_Mn

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My empire vents out the side as well and mine has never went out. Most of the time I start it at home if I'm fishing local and drive to the lake. Longest trip with the heater on was from Isanti to Albertville just to see if it would go out, took Hwy 169, 55-60 Mph. 2c

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I can see running a heater in a camper or RV. But what would be the reason to run your heat all the way up to the lake down the hwy? Don't you lose most of the heat when your running in and out of it setting up, drilling holes and banking? confused

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no problems. we start ours just outside of grand rapids on teh way to Winnie. then that way when we are drilling holes and setting up it is warmer then trying to warm it up. and when we are ready to fish we get to comfortably and not worry about being chilly for a bit before it finally gets warm. 2c

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As a firefighter I would say this is a bad idea! I have seen many rv's and pull behind campers burn up and many were caused in one way or the other by the heater(furnace). I would suggest waiting in your vehicle while the fish house warmed up.

I agree. If you develop a gas leak inside the house (from all the flexing on the roads) on your gas line and there is still a flame going, then you could toast your house.

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