| I would really like to find a small, safe heating element that would
| make perhaps abou 30 watts or so. I need two, one to keep the poultry
| waterer from freezing, and I would put another into my welding
| machine. I will check out cabelas.

Something like these? http://www.infraredheaters.com/ese.htm

See if your local farmer's co-op has them. These things are so much
better than what was out there for poultry twenty years ago, and are a whole
lot nicer. I've never bought one, so I can't vouch for them, though.