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Heating a Otter Large Resort

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iffwalleyes Grand Master

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I myself have both a Mr. Heater cooker and a Big Buddy. They are about equal as far as heating the house. The buddy just isn't that tough though for me. I used one all last winter and most of the plastic is know broke or cracked. But it is nice to have the circ. fan they have built in them.

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Mr. Heater Cookers are a good option for heating any portable. If you are going relatively "light" you can use 1 lb. propane cylinders. If you aren't worried about packing "light" you can get a hose kit, and a 10, 20, 30 lb etc. tank and have the tank outside the house and the heater inside and not really taking up a lot of room.

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what is the placement of these heaters?

My biggest fear is that a heater will come in contact with the house, with the door right in the center of the house, if you look at how far the door opens, it leave very little room to place a sun heater where it is not in danger of touching the house.It never fails, a friend that has had too much, or someone that just don't care, and poof instant hole in the fabric.

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If you are worried about someone burning a hole i would suggest going with the buddy heater and maybe two? Just put a two way adapter on a 20lb tank that way they dont have to keep replacing 1 lb tanks. Just my .02 cents.

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It never fails, a friend that has had too much, or someone that just don't care, and poof instant hole in the fabric.

I don't think you're problem is where to place the heater or, the house layout smirk.gif

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Dave,

tell me that you have never encountered this:

you sitting out in your portable by yourself and some

bore pig come walking over to your house, zips the door of your portable open and says"catch'n any?"Just than the wind flops the door agains your sun heater that you had in the corner... case in hand... this stuff does happen .. that is why I posted on here for ideas...because I know it has happened to others! oh ya, just for the record, none of the people I fish with drink... my two young sons (it was just an example I used)

so with that in mind, thank you for your two cents tward solving my problem.

Holaey confused.gif

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Yes you are correct the door opening and flapping in the wind is a problem. What I do is set my heater that is on top of the tank (20pound tank) in the RH corner next to the door. The door opens and falls on the LH side. I use to use the single burner Mr. heater cooker and found on cold days its not warm enough. So that is why I use the double burner now. My house is the Otter Lodge so it's a little bit smaller than yours.

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I place the wind support pole somewhat in the opening to prevent the door from completely folding back into the interior and possibly coming in contact with my Mr. Cooker which I typically place in that corner of the floor space. It still leaves me room to slide out the door and I don't have to worry if it gets away from me when I step out and blows inside because I know the pole will in effect shorten up the length that it can fold back.

The Mr. Cooker works great. I bought the long hose so that I can leave the 11lb propane tank in the sled and put the Cooker wherever I want with enough slack in the line left over. Been using it for many years and will also allow for a hot supper of venison sausage on a cold day. tongue.gif

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