INSTALL A HEATER IN A KUBOTA 900 UTV

Tommy,

You're thinking of a 500 pound unit, not 500 gallons.

If you're using it only for cooking only, it's way too big.  That's more than you could use for emergency cooking in your entire lifetime.  You would probably be better off with 100 pound tanks which are slightly larger than your welders O2 tank. (basically, it's about the same diameter as a 20# tank but it's over 4' tall.  I like these since they're more portable and you can take to get filled yourself, instead of bringing a truck in.

i never thought about if it was a 500lbs or 500 gallon . the tank was about 6feet long and about 24"in diameter we used it for the water heater/stove and furnace.i would hope it would last along time if i just used it for cooking i thought about getting a generator to run off it to but i really don't know how long a gerator would last on one of them tanks. my brother is a boss and runs a crane company "the one i got hurt workin for" and he ordered two deisel engines one for a crane and the other he gave it to me it's brand new  never been fired over i wanna make a generator out of it.

does anyone have a generator that runs off of propane  if so how is it on fuel econemy?? 

 I have the conventional heater that runs off the cooling system of the RTV. Can't make out the manufacturer since I sand blasted the unit and repainted it. It was part of the Curtis cab kit and supplies heat through the cup holder opening on the drivers side and down towards the footsies at the same location. I'll look into those propane jobbies though as it seems like a convenient way to pre warm the cab.

BTW.....A while back TWO GUNS ....You were not receiving email notification when posts were made. Did you ever get that straightened out? I've been having the same issue now for about 2 weeks. I just thought the forum had gone awfully quiet until I got one notification 2 days ago and then they stopped again .....

you could make your own heater . just find an old a/c unit and take out one of the coils  and use a tee to spilt off your radiator hoses . they sell them 12volt  fans that mount to radiators just mount it to the coil and when you need heat just open the valve and turn on the fan . the hot water from the radiator will flow through the  the coil and walla you got heat atleast i think so.lol they use the same method for them ice coolers and make some nice a/c units out of them.

Kubota Kanook:

 

BTW.....A while back TWO GUNS ....You were not receiving email notification when posts were made. Did you ever get that straightened out?

 That is a " yes & no " >>>>>  It got striaightend out, but it's still not like it used to be. I find myself behind on much post .

 To Our host, Messicks, I know he is reading this, whatever you did last time to get it fixed, DO IT AGAIN, needs buffing up again >>>> still not getting all we need to get .... 

......... two guns

We actually do have 2-- 500 gallon propane tanks.. You ought to see the bill when we have them filled up. The delivery trucks only put in about 80%, I guess because of expansion. Anyway ,one time one was empty and held  well over $1000.00. There was a slow leak in the farm tank cut off  and we had to let it get dead empty to change it. Our propane tractor -if run all day long -can use  close to $100 or more of the stuff.   The thing about the propane during a hurricane ... People will have a hard time stealing it if it is big and  real heavy and ..it won't get old. but once it's gone  ..it's gone. with no way to refill under those harsh conditions. I know that even way up here, we had to protect our  diesel fuel and rationed  our generator use according to fuel consumption for 10 days.... We have the  propane tank at the house underground so it won't be in the way and I was lucky enough to get my new grill in the outdoor cooking area run off the that big tank. No more running out of gas while cooking.! But I have to make dog gone sure I turn off the gas!! or it  would be the dog house for me.!!  The only people I know that have natural gas generators  have a meter  and don't run the risk of running out of fuel but only out of money to pay for it as the supply is unlimited.  I  like the idea of the diesel generator  since our  propane supply would be limited in a crisis to what is  in the tank. As for diesel, it could possibly be  got from neighbors  etc.  if you ran out.  Just have the best of both worlds and some of each...   Bordercollie

tommy 20/69:

he ordered two deisel engines one for a crane and the other he gave it to me it's brand new  never been fired over i wanna make a generator out of it.

does anyone have a generator that runs off of propane  if so how is it on fuel econemy??

Are you going to try to turn that diesel into propane????

My dad has a generator that runs off propane.  Although he's never had extended power outages, he's never had an issue with usage.

If I recall, the propane version uses about the same dollar amount of fuel as a gas generator of the same size.

 I installed the heater offered by Curtis Cab called "Tuck Away Heater". It works OK but it seems to take a while for it to start putting out "good" heat.

i plan on keeping it a deisel engine  but i would like to check into them propane generators too that way i could have a gas one apropane one and a deisel just incase it would ever come to a major disaster where certain fuels are hard to find i could still have a choice of 3 fuels to burn.i would like the deisel one because it something ever happened that the other fuels was a no go  i live few hundred yards from a 1000 gallon deisel fuel tank that if needed i could tap into and get fuel like i need .it's a  local goverment tank  but if it ever came to the point of me havein to get fuel out of it that would mean things are pretty rough down here.

as for as the curtas cab heaters i hear lots of people claim they just don't heat up like they should there was a guy on tractor by net that i think got his to work but i forgot what he did to get it to put out the heat he neede.it might be like the semi trucks and you might have to put a partial cover over the radiator to get the temps you need

Tact:

 I installed the heater offered by Curtis Cab called "Tuck Away Heater".

Yup! Thats the name on mine now that you mentioned it..My 3 Kubotas all have cab heaters..RTV, tractor and F3060.The heaters in all 3 seem to need the rpm to be up in the 2k range before they start dumping heat. For the tractor and F thats no issue as they hand throttle in that range for snow blowing in the cold weather. The RTV being a foot pedal is more prone to run below that rpm range but I installed a hand throttle and keep it at about 2k rpm (just guessing..no tach) when snow plowing with it. But even so, the tractor and F do get more cozy in the cab on those cold days. Mind you the RTV cab is bigger and less air tight (not like those nifty 1100 cabs).

bordercollie:

We actually do have 2-- 500 gallon propane tanks.. You ought to see the bill when we have them filled up. The delivery trucks only put in about 80%, I guess because of expansion. Anyway ,one time one was empty and held  well over $1000.00. There was a slow leak in the farm tank cut off  and we had to let it get dead empty to change it. Our propane tractor -if run all day long -can use  close to $100 or more of the stuff.   The thing about the propane during a hurricane ... People will have a hard time stealing it if it is big and  real heavy and ..it won't get old. but once it's gone  ..it's gone. with no way to refill under those harsh conditions. I know that even way up here, we had to protect our  diesel fuel and rationed  our generator use according to fuel consumption for 10 days.... We have the  propane tank at the house underground so it won't be in the way and I was lucky enough to get my new grill in the outdoor cooking area run off the that big tank. No more running out of gas while cooking.! But I have to make dog gone sure I turn off the gas!! or it  would be the dog house for me.!!  The only people I know that have natural gas generators  have a meter  and don't run the risk of running out of fuel but only out of money to pay for it as the supply is unlimited.  I  like the idea of the diesel generator  since our  propane supply would be limited in a crisis to what is  in the tank. As for diesel, it could possibly be  got from neighbors  etc.  if you ran out.  Just have the best of both worlds and some of each...   Bordercollie

 alot of people down here are trying to get away from natural gas run generators because for katrina they all went out and bought them nice home emergency natural gas generators but for gustav they was out in the dark because some houses and companies had alot of damage so the gas company and fire department went around and turned off the gas to some places because of leaks . it was ok for the people up from the leak but if you lived on the downside of the leak you had a very nice and expensive paper wiehgt to look at because they had no gas comin through the lines to run it. thats why i want a regular gas unit that i have already and a desil and propane. i figure a 8000 watt generator couldn't use that much propane if i just run it 10 hours a day and the deisel is readily availible if needed for an extreme emergency.

 NOTE:

A Boy Scout leader told me recently that they had refilled a number of the little propane bottles from a 20 lb tank and stored them in their pull behind enclosed camp trailer.  Later when they went on a weekend campout they found a number of the small bottles were empty. Seems as though the sealing gasket hadn't resealed when they refilled them. They bought brass caps for the ends of the refilled small bottles and haven't had any more problems. 

Keifer, a RTV wannabe

Yea Tommy you are right!! That goes for any disaster most any would render any kind of lines useless.I bet you could call the local propane place and they would tell you what average use is. I even googled usage when we were buying a new dryer to compare gas use vs electric.We bought one of the gasoline miller welder/generator a week before Katrina but it wasn't delivered  until things were back to normal .  So we used the old gas Kholer .  I think it was 10 k and used about 1 gallon an hr --it was old and not efficient-- and haha didn't have a muffler..we finally put an old tractor muffler on it. The neighbors a mile down the road were sure glad!!  I read somewhere about a an output difference  on the propane vs diesel but don't remember much about it.  Might find out some info in a Northern Hydraulics catalog???   Bordercollie

Very good idea!! Those caps are great to have on hand too in case you need to take a heater out of the house for cleaning. I had to take  out a heater in my parent's house when I put in a new floor and the  line cut off didn't seal completely. (Those radiant heaters need blowing out when the flames start getting tall too). Does anyone remember what size  cap the small bottles take so I can get some to have on hand even before I buy the heater?   Bordercollie

This is a heater listed under "12 volt heater "at Amazon. Appears to be well rated and costs $160. It 's heat comes from the engine heated water like in a car.    Bordercollie