Branding Iron Heater help

[Shank3r]

Saturday my Brother-in-law branded some replacement heifers, probably the second time in a decade he's needed to fire up the branding iron tools and the second time in a row his heater just wasn't making enough heat to get the iron's sufficiently hot.

I dug this one out of the corner of the barn that I remember my Dad using when I was a child, It flows air thru it but I didn't try to put propane thru it to light it. I was hoping someone here would be able to identify it and have some suggestions on where to go to either replace or rebuild it.

This one had an oblong shaped heat shield around it that I removed to take the picture.

 

[wbvs58]

This is what I use, puts out a bit of heat. I have it aimed into an old cut open propane gas cylinder ( don't try cutting a cylinder open unless you know what you are doing).

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[BC]

Shank, I have never seen a rig like you have shown. Seeing you are in south Texas, I bet you could find a piece of pipe and build a heater that looks similar to this.

 

[Dave]

Shank, I have never seen a rig like you have shown. Seeing you are in south Texas, I bet you could find a piece of pipe and build a heater that looks similar to this.

There is one like that in the barn that I inherited when I bought this place. Most people around here use a truck rim with no center in it. They build a fire in the middle of the rim. Use lots of wood split small as you want coals to make the iron hot.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

saw some you tube people branding with electric irons using a solar powered generator. I want one. we use electric at the house and at the distance pens, either a wood fire or propane in an old gas bottle like picture above. fire in hot weather sucks and the propane "stove" is noisier than a regular generator.

 

[gcreekrch]

saw some you tube people branding with electric irons using a solar powered generator. I want one. we use electric at the house and at the distance pens, either a wood fire or propane in an old gas bottle like picture above. fire in hot weather sucks and the propane "stove" is noisier than a regular generator.

I don't miss the uneven heat of a wood fire nor the roar of a propane torch for several hours. Electric irons are cheap, neighbors rope and drag 1500 calves a year and have a long extension cord for the iron. Works just fine.

 

[Shank3r]

I sent that photo to a friend of mine who has another friend that owns a Propane company. He said it's an old Liquid Propane Burner, so that sent got me closer to something similiar.

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I'm going to soak it in evaporust for a few days and see if the tip cleans up enough to disassemble

 

[Dave]

I don't miss the uneven heat of a wood fire nor the roar of a propane torch for several hours. Electric irons are cheap, neighbors rope and drag 1500 calves a year and have a long extension cord for the iron. Works just fine.

B does well over 1,000 using electric irons and long extension cords. No power in the pen so he uses a generator which is outside the pen on the other side of a pickup. Far enough away you barely notice the noise difference when it runs out of gas.

 

[sunnyblueskies]

We use electric too. Hook it on a generator and it's hot in a couple minutes, even and always ready to go. Especially if you only brand a few. Doesn't take much to set it up.