Diesel Heater For Ice Fishing
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Testing out a Diesel Heater For Ice Fishing!
In search of an alternative to propane heat for ice fishing, Daryl tests a diesel heater to see if it will withstand the extreme cold, rough terrain, and hard use of being used everyday guiding or fishing in Canada all while catching Lake Trout on Lake Athapapuskow at Bakers Narrows Lodge Manitoba.
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Great in depth video. Picking up the same hub this weekend and I've been eyeing the same heater. Exactly what I needed to see, thank you!!
Awesome, thank you! I did notice online the heaters were $100 off regular price right now or atleast the other day
Great video, not too noisy for videos. Once the temperature stabilizes in the tent fan speed decreases and it’s not bad at all.
Thanks, true it did lower the fan speed once up to temperature and then I decided to crank it up to 35c to see what would happen so it increased again haha
Great explanation of the heater sir. Insane trout!!
Thanks!
Great video! A few things I’ve learned from researching diesel heaters:
Have a CO detector in your tent, especially when you have the unit inside.
Never abruptly stop the heater, it needs to go through a shutdown process.
Wrap the exhaust with ‘manifold’ wrap, makes it touchable and safe.
Have the exhaust on a downward projection to stop any precipitation going into the heater and causing carbon buildup.
For the cheaper units, put a piece of plastic wrap inside the gas cap and tighten it down so you don’t get leaking diesel from cap while driving.
For sleeping, I would put the unit outside and run both the hot air blower and air intake hoses running into the tent, safer than having a possible leaky exhaust inside.
Use “seasonal” diesel, which is treated. Or if you have summer diesel, use an additive.
Dry heat is sooooo much better! And no open flame burning your sleeping bag.
Thermal sleeve was an awesome idea! Nice unit with good gas cap and exhaust out the side, not to bottom.
I never cover my ice holes, someone could step in one. But I also fish in more heavily used areas.
I explained the shutdown process in the video where I turned it onto the cool down cycle, I also mentioned having a co detector inside. There’s no foot traffic where we are it’s a 12-18 mile run each way so it’s all sled traffic. By the time someone comes out they are frozen over
You did a great job in the video! Just wanted to add some info. No disrespect intended, love your videos.
Thanks!
Great video Darrel! I think you’ve convinced me to switch.
Thanks! It’s definitely worth it
Great show bud . Those heaters work great it's the only way to go i use mine when I deer hunt
Thanks, that would be some comfortable deer hunting
great vid! i bought the same u it a few weeks ago for the “bunk house” at the lake….. love it!
Awesome! Definitely would be a great unit for static operation
I run my CDH outside with two insulated pipes circulating the air in the shack so it's heating already warm air. Battery inside the shack and the screen extended so I can control the unit from inside as well. Pulls about 3 amps on high.
Sounds like a good setup!
Thxs for review👍 not gonna lie sound of heater doesn't make for great video 🤗
Yea it might not work out to well for filming but had to try it out!
Looks like great unit i was looking at them 👍@darylgilbertoutdoors
Seems great so far !
I use a milk crate to put my heater on. The propane vent is 12” off the floor which is the same size as a milk crate. Plus you have something to store the battery and hoses in!
The milk crates work great!
I did 2 nights in the ice and needed 2 brand 100ah lithium batteries and used 3 tanks of fuel for the same heater. I had to walk back to the truck to get the buddy heater for the rest of the day. Basically 100ah for maybe 20 hrs but they work great.
I haven’t used it more than 10 hours in a run as that’s our length of guide days. I think they all seem to eat battery power fairly quickly but that’s the only downside really
Propane puts out a ton of moisture it causes alot of condensation which will cause corrosion where you can’t see the little bit of noise is more than worth it 👍🏻 plus your shack won’t be frozen closed when you go to use it next time
Exactly!
Put the muffler on you’ll eliminate alot of the exhaust noise I have the same model you’re using works great
For sure, I actually don’t hear the exhaust noise inside the hut especially over the fan and wind
Nice I was the first one to like
Haha thanks!
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Great video & review Daryl !
I know you mentioned it but if you had the unit sitting on a milk crate it would be up off the ground & the exhaust should run straight out the propane door……
I think you mentioned it was-15 that day but what has been the coldest day you’ve had it running & how did it do……
thinking could u not run a bungee cord from the end of the air duct tubing and hook it up to one of the tent poles/straps……🤔
#tightlines
Thanks, I’ve ran it on a -48c day and I was able to get it up to 23c in the hut and maintain it. I was pretty impressed. It definitely should sit on something I just haven’t had time to put something together. Yea you could use some para cord or a bungee to hold it up for sure
Hi. Great video. With respect to the noise of the heater could you not set the heater up outside the shack and run the heat into the shack? Keep the battery inside as well. Just a thought. Love your videos.
@@ShaunClark-c2q you could, but on cold days the heater won’t be able to produce enough heat as it’s pulling extremely cold air and trying to warm it
@@darylgilbertoutdoorspropane is definitely not ideal. Be interesting to see how the heater holds up with transport across the lakes in a sleigh.
I’ve been running it the whole season now and it’s been great. Definitely put it through a beating so far. A pelican case would be awesome or some sort of that style case but I don’t have access to one right now
My ice hut has a stove jack . I burn wood during the day and CDH at night . I go 4 days on 100ah lifepo4 battery
That’s pretty good , good way to keep from stoking a stove all night
Can you adjust the wind speed? Do you have to put additive in the fuel to prevent jelling?
Great fishing!
@@tomreilly9295 our diesel fuel sold at gas stations after September usually has an additive already in it but you could definitely add some antigel if it’s going to be extremely cold. You can adjust the wind speed with a remote up to 5 settings
Great video, great fish.
Were is Emily and the camp progress 🕊
Ir does Emily have her own channel. 😊
Coming soon, editing an update now
I have the same heater …..I suggest you put the clamp on the exhaust pipe at the unit…..ya don’t want it to slip off
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Wah mantap sekali 👍👍👍
Works good!
Trying to find that sleeve you're using for the exhaust can't seem to find anything what exactly is it called on Amazon?
There’s a link to it in the video description
Seems a little much for the ice shak, im sure it works great but packing all that up after dark on the lake vs just throwing the mr heater in the sled....idk, great video tho!!!
If you’re just taking it down and not demonstrating everything on video it actually packs up pretty quick. Definitely worth it for the better heat in my opinion though. Thanks!
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Let me know on a -35 day how she does....
I used it on -42 and -48 and it was able to get to 23 c in the hut and maintain it
@darylgilbertoutdoors really?! Nice
Yea I was impressed, that was my biggest worry how it would run in extreme cold
@darylgilbertoutdoors thanks for the vid and info
$249 for LF Bros heater from Amazon, what system are you using for the converter and what amp hour lithium are you using?
60ah is the power pack I’m using
Diesel heaters over buddy heaters any day!!
Definitely!
How is the start up with diesel, pretty smokey? Are you using diesel or a blend of diesel/kerosene.
Straight diesel, I don’t have any smoke produced inside. The exhaust steams a bit like in the intro of the video but nothing more than that
@ take that milk crate and enclose it put a lid on and there’s your storage box.
@@Rudy198_75 one guy here has a food delivery bag from Amazon that it fits right into, insulated and sealed
@ can you share the bag? Would like to see it in the bag.
Can you please continue to keep us up to date on the heater on those cold days. Lots of people who have used them and they just weren’t enough. Maybe this brand you have is built better.
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@@darylgilbertoutdoorsI bet that heater realy swirls farts around good