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You can even rotate the seat to direct the heat. Talk about fancy! – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer Dogmeat says, “Wow! Folding camping chairs…propane gas tank with space heater accessory…all the comforts of home when you’re roughing it from the confines of your own living room.”
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Butane is the bastard gas.
Methane is Fat Bastard’s gas.
“Get in my belly!!! Look at my sexy body!!!! Sexy mon, sexy mon!!!”
Not as bad bad as charcoal, the jackass fuel.
So…isn’t that a good way to suffocate in your own home?
Propane space heaters in closed off spaces keep you twice as warm as conventional in two ways: 1.)They throw off some pretty serious heat by burning the propane 2.)You’ll have that warm, fuzzy feeling from the lack of oxygen in your brain.
No, ma’am, I can’t explain why someone would steal your trailer, dig a giant hole where it used to stand, and hold a bar-b-que at the bottom of the pit, but if you’ll hear me out – I have a different theory about what happened…
FAIL!!!!
Thats a propane heater used commercially to keep transport trailers warm while transporting fruit in the colder country’s (example: Canada)
And here we see a Canadian Apostrophe (Apostra canadensis) traveling south for the winter.
Dammit Bobby.
I told you to always respect propane and propane accessories.
Dammit Dale, I’m gonna kick your ass!
ill tell u wat man dangold propane man megalomart BOOM man
Hank Hill would be pissed off, this is clearly not safe!
I can’t f–king imagine how people burn down their homes…
But they can!!!
Here’s hoping they didn’t breed first, so no innocent little stupids have to die from this.
Actually, most of them die intoxicate by CO²!
Actually, it’s just CO (Carbon Monoxide).
I don’t understand. This isn’t that big a deal. I use this same thing all the time. (Literally the exact same heater) I don’t burn down my house or suffocate or anything. It’s perfectly safe.
A rocket heater! awesome!
doesn’t propane make poisonous gasses (Carbon Monoxide) when burn’t?
coincidentally everyone in that trailer died in their sleep.
Ordinarily no, it will just make CO2 and H20. If there is a lack of oxygen though (It’s been on too long with no ventilation, so used it up etc) it will then make CO and H20 instead.
With ventilation it’s mainly a fire hazard, in an enclosed space it’s a noxious gas hazard too.
Hope you have a window open…
Give it time and that heat lamp will be redundant. Granted, you might not want to be around when it happens…
Wow! Folding camping chairs…propane gas tank with space heater accessory…all the comforts of home when you’re roughing it from the confines of your own living room.
That’s a swivel bar stool, not a foldable camping chair.
Yes…the tank is sitting on a bar stool. I was referring to the collapsed, green and gray camping chair in the lower right corner of the picture.
I like to pretend to camp in a nice hotel room, with room service to bring s’mores and chlorine out in the “lake.” Camping chairs might be a nice touch, when we pretend to roast stuff next to the plasma TV that’s showing a fireplace DVD.
With a profane heater like this swiveled to the 10 o’clock position luan’s door will be toast before Hank can say any s’more.
dogmeat – if people looked at the image carefully before firing off a post, it just wouldn’t be There I Fixed It.
We darn sure can’t just put it on the floor. Let’s put it on a swivel bar stool, add a towel for insulation as to not burn up the stool, and oh yeah lets bungie it to the stool, wouldn’t want it to fall and burn down the mobile home. This should do it. Safe and sound.
The towel isn’t for insulation. It’s to catch the condensation because the tank gets cold as the propane is used.
Matter of fact, you can see the frost line.
child- MOM! MOM! MOM!(Comes crashing through door) ***BOOM!!!*** mother- what? child- can I have some money to buy some firecrackers?
**Kool-Aid man comes crashing through the door.**
OH YEAH!!!!
If this is the tool they’re using, it actually would be exciting to watch paint dry.
From a distance, of course.
This isn’t that uncommon actually in a lot of rural areas.. and unlike some comments above, no they are all not used in mobile homes or trailers… I do like the stool and the bungie strap though…
It’s not a heater, it’s a starter.
So how’s the propane business? What a gas, huh?
And now, just in time to start planning for the coming Christmas home fire season–when you don’t want to buy a tree to set that double-wide ablaze! Buy one for your neighbors! Put one in the kids’ room! Hell, even Grandma’ll want one–she can hook the oxygen tank up to it for additional heat and comfort!
if you start feeling dizzy, don’t go with it
The Pixar lamp is becoming a bit of a daredevil nowadays.
O GOD ITS WEEGEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello?
Is it me you’re looking for?
‘Cause I wonder where you are,
And I wonder what you do.
Are you somewhere feeling lonely
Or is someone loving you?
Welcome back, Paddy. we missed you.
Hullo?
Where have you been?
All of my comments were being sent to their spam folder, so I eventually gave up commenting. Apparently I’m back now.
Well I’m sure you’ve got plenty of gags sacked up for us.
Welcome back Paddy. Looks like the spam filter finally decided you tasted bad.
You people seriously have no idea what you’re talking about.
It’s a space heater. Hooked up. Whoopty-doo.
The towel is so the tank doesn’t scratch the chair.
Seriously, the only issue here is carbon monoxide poisoning- iirc these things require actual ventilation, so it’s likely overkill indoors. It’s not going to burn the stool you moron, the tank doesn’t get hot, just the heater.
This is misuse, not kludge.
So, you’re saying this isn’t “intelligent”? Welcome to the World of Kludging, where if it looks stupid but works, it ain’t stupid.
Additional benefits include not having to search for a lighter each time you want a cigarette, and nesting your beer around the bottom half of the tank keeps them frosty cold.
That’s actually not a kludge, those are sold in stores. Though using them indoors and on a chair like that… that’s just stupid.
I don’t get it. That is a Mr. Heater put on top of a chair … not much of a kludge in my mind.
Yeah, be sure to shut all the doors and windows when you’re operating a propane appliance indoors. Wouldn’t want to let any of the heat (or carbon monoxide) out.
It’s not facing any draperies, so this can’t be dangerous. “Hey, someone pass the asbestos chips!”
I am just WAITING for that to explode….
I did almost exactly this same thing once. Only difference was, I set mine on top of the coffee table. A tree fell across the power lines in the middle of winter. When the power is out for 2 days, it is amazing what seems like a good idea.
Will he freeze to death or will carbon monoxide get him first? I love a science experiment! Oh, wait, who’s going to record the results? Tsk, tsk. Always a catch…
Find out next time, on Kludge Theatre!
Such heart rendering, contemporary drama. Stay tuned for the next episode of “Love of Gas”.
I worked in the hardware industry for a while, and I cannot tell you how many people would come into my store looking to do this very thing during periods of single-digit temperatures. We cannot prevent them from buying it, but we CAN strongly suggest that they not do it.
The nice thing is that they’d likely be dead from carbon monoxide before their house burned down, so no suffering on their end.
PROPANE
and propane accessories.
Well, I suppose it beats a campfire in a wok on the floor…
Evolution in action . . . .
Wow, I guess they never heard of carbon monoxide. On the plus side, they won’t need that heater for long!
That has “Tonight’s top story…” written all over it.
Talk about being in the hot seat.
When it’s cold anything is possible in an effort to get warm
Emergency propane heater is emergency.
Seriously folks, that’s what those things are made for. Not much different then a space heater, just requires less electricity, which can be rather handy. People used to use gas lights in their houses too. Some people still do- I was at a resort in Maine once, they had electric and gas lights, the generator was turned off at 10 or 11, don’t remember which, and if you wanted light you turned the gas lights on instead. Some of them were even match lit rather then lit by a sparker.
Also, unless you screw up and aren’t getting complete ignition, you won’t get carbon monoxide. If they’re working right and being used right, gas appliances are quite safe.
This is nowhere close to a kludge that belongs on this site.
Hank Hill sold him that unit.
And it even includes a free carbon monoxide generating kit….
What scares me about this picture is that my uncle and his girlfriend apparently did something similar and caught the house on fire. So now I’m looking at this and wondering if it’s their place.
Reminds me of a co-worker whose husband left an open bottle of combustible solvent next to their furnace one winter night … and was surprised when the house burned down. Sigh.
Family found dead from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, but Hey! They were warm.
YAY 4 WARMTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
MR.HEATER FOR THE EPIC WIN.
Mr.Heaters have gotten me through some rough times camping, also when we lost power one winter. While I may not have put it on a chair- I understand the practicality. It wont burn the chair or cause a blazing inferno. In fact, we’ve used them in tents several times while camping. It may seem silly to you but actually these are quite common.
I would just like to say….. wait….. what is that on my carpet….. CHARCOAL!?!?!?!?!?! BWAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
I think the firs law of darwin is suitable here…
uhh First law xD dyslexia sorry xD
anyone got marshmallows?
how is this a kludge its a mr heater on a chair how is it not safe? i bet 50% of you have or know someone that has and uses a propane fire place i know i used to and it never hurt me