The Best Ice House Heater?

[CatManLee]

I have been looking at buying a new heater for my Ice house, and Just don't know what to buy. I have always had a sunflower type heater with a 20lb tank. This heats very well, (12,000 BTU) but it's big and tippy. It works fine in my 2-person house by myself. However I recently purchased a used one-person Frabill ultra light, there's no way this will fit in there with me. So what should I get? Is there anything out there that puts out enough heat to warm up my 2-person and still fit in my one-person?

I've been looking at the "Buddy" and "Big Buddy" Heaters (Mr.Heater). The Smaller portable buddy, is the perfect size, but has only 9,000 BTU's Max. The Big Buddy has even more BTU's than my Sunflower, but I don't know if that will fit in the one-man house? I've never owned a 1-person house. Will 9,000 BTU's heat it good or just take the chill out of the air? Does anyone else fish in a single house or 2 person, and what do you use to heat it?

help me out...Thanks.

[boener]

Ever thought of buying a Mr. heater cooker(heater)? Just get yourself a 6ft hose and leave your tank outside saving you some room...it really works nice for cooking venison sausage also!!

[iffwalleyes]

You will probably get more responses in the Equipment section or the ice fishing forum. If I were you I would look into the Mr. Heater cookers. You can put them inside the house and run a hose outside to your tank. With the Mr. Heater Buddy you should be ok as well in that small of house. That heater will never heat your 2 man house though. The nice thing about the buddy is you can put it in the corner against the house and it won't burn a hole in the canvas of your house where with a cooker you have to be concerned with that.