By Request- The Warming Barrel!- pics have been uploaded.

[PJisaMom]

Just a regular old lightbulb?

 

[glenolam]

Believe it or not, my friend's hubby built the same type of thing out of the white barrells and sold them for $50 each on craigslist! Good thing I'm her friend - I get one for free if/when I want one!

 

[jodief100]

Just a regular old lightbulb?

Yup! I think it is 100 Watts. The close quarters retains heat very well. At least until you can't get them anymore. Not sure what I am going to do after that. The chicken water heater runs on a light bulb too.

 

[jodief100]

Believe it or not, my friend's hubby built the same type of thing out of the white barrells and sold them for $50 each on craigslist! Good thing I'm her friend - I get one for free if/when I want one!

$50

You have to be kidding me!

I wouldn't charge more than $25. You can pick between one smelling like apples, maple or vannila.

 

[PJisaMom]

Just a regular old lightbulb?

Yup! I think it is 100 Watts. The close quarters retains heat very well. At least until you can't get them anymore. Not sure what I am going to do after that. The chicken water heater runs on a light bulb too.

Awesome, thanks!

***Off to buy a secret supply of 100 watt bulbs to hide in the emergency kit... ***

 

[autumnprairie]

Thanks Jodie

 

[20kidsonhill]

we use heatlamp bulbs in ours.

and we dont' cut the end off of ours either, just cut a tunnel shapped hole into the side, just big enough for a kid to go in and out.

then attach a heat lamp to the top by drilling a hole just big enough for the bulb to go through and screwing the two halfs of the heat lamp back together through the hole.

I do think if you over use them on a nice day, it doesn't do your kids any good, so I would only use them on newborns drying off and for the first couple of days, or if it is really really cold out. below15 degrees. depends on how old the kid is.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I just thought of something. My dad was recently at a light bulb display at sam's club. The gentleman was explaining and showing the different kids of lightbulbs that are now out, energy efficient and so forth. Well, by dad said that within a year or two they will no longer be making standard 100 watt bulbs, then they will phase out the standard 75 watt, ect...... So I would say based on that, in the next 5 years or so, you will have to purchase heat lamp bulbs. Because 100 watt bulbs will all be energy effiecient and they wont put het off.

He also said that if you are buying the curly energy efficient lught bulbs, you have to leave them on the first time you turn them on for several hours to build up the gasses in them, or they wont work properly for the remainder of their life span.

Next is going to be LED light for the house.

 

[20kidsonhill]

so I guess, I am thinking, if you are taking the time to build these barrells, you may want to check about putting a standard light fixture in them, because I don't think you could use heat lamp bulbs in a standard fixture. Then you will end up redoing your barrells.

Just a heads up.

 

[hollycow]

The chicken water heater runs on a light bulb too.

I know this is an older thread but Jodie do you have instructions/pics of the chicken water heater? Thanks!