Ride that is for a serious coal burner Just for fun
- 2001Sierra
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- Joined: Wed. May. 20, 2009 8:09 am
- Location: Wynantskill NY, 10 miles from Albany
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Keystoker 90 Chimney vent
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
- Other Heating: Buderus Oil Boiler 3115-34
Check out what 12K will buy.
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- freetown fred
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- Joined: Thu. Dec. 31, 2009 12:33 pm
- Location: Freetown,NY 13803
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut
I think I'd druther have the 1st gas powered--looks like she'd take at least 2 bales of hay!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
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- Joined: Sat. May. 24, 2008 4:26 pm
- Location: Chester, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
I bought a 1981 Convertible (soft top) Mac pumper for $2500 with a 750 gall tank from the Hobart fire dept NY.. Lots of fun but remember they can't even give them away. For a while I was the coolest grandpa on the plant... that did not last long. Lots of tips if your serious. My advice ... don't bother.
- Sunny Boy
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- Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
- Location: Central NY
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
- Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
- Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
- Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace
Friend who got me into the antique car hobby had a 30 American La France open cab 1000gpm pumper. Fun to ride around in, but parking becomes a problem pretty much wherever you go. Not as bad as his 65 foot long City Service ladder truck, though. That took two people- one at each end - just to steer it around corners.
He had lots of fun taking friends for rides upstate to the fire truck meets at Valhalla NY reservoir.
He had a running board mounted soda/acid fire extinguisher that he gutted and then had it silver plated inside. Used to fill it with Vodka screwdrivers. Said it was fun to watch passersby shocked looks seeing his buddies riding in the hose bed and up-ending and drinking from a fire extinguisher hose.
And yes, used fire trucks go for cheap. It's getting all the gear that goes on them that can get expensive.
He bought a 50 Mac pumper from Amityville LI. He was the only bid at $500.00. Said he wanted a closed cab as his "winter truck".
Car collectors can be crazy, but fire engine collectors make them look sane.
Paul
He had lots of fun taking friends for rides upstate to the fire truck meets at Valhalla NY reservoir.
He had a running board mounted soda/acid fire extinguisher that he gutted and then had it silver plated inside. Used to fill it with Vodka screwdrivers. Said it was fun to watch passersby shocked looks seeing his buddies riding in the hose bed and up-ending and drinking from a fire extinguisher hose.
And yes, used fire trucks go for cheap. It's getting all the gear that goes on them that can get expensive.
He bought a 50 Mac pumper from Amityville LI. He was the only bid at $500.00. Said he wanted a closed cab as his "winter truck".
Car collectors can be crazy, but fire engine collectors make them look sane.
Paul
- warminmn
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- Joined: Tue. Feb. 08, 2011 5:59 pm
- Location: Land of 11,842 lakes
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Junior, Efel Nestor Martin, Riteway 37
- Coal Size/Type: nut and stove anthracite, lignite
- Other Heating: Wood and wear a wool shirt
come on guys, its no crazier than collecting stoves if you have the room. I see plenty of pranks that could be pulled on people with one of them and great for watering the lawn Could turn one into a human honey wagon then shoot it out into the fields near political rally's.
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- Joined: Sat. May. 24, 2008 4:26 pm
- Location: Chester, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
Done that oneCar collectors can be crazy, but fire engine collectors make them look sane.
Yep, count me in on that one as well.Crazy to collect coal stoves
Here is the best part, I am still the sanest guy on this board. That will really blow your mind.
- Sunny Boy
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- Location: Central NY
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
- Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
- Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
- Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace
Great, .....If you want your lawn moved to the neighbor's yard.warminmn wrote: ↑Thu. May. 30, 2019 11:33 amcome on guys, its no crazier than collecting stoves if you have the room. I see plenty of pranks that could be pulled on people with one of them and great for watering the lawn Could turn one into a human honey wagon then shoot it out into the fields near political rally's.
Helped that friend with the 30 American La France drain a driveway storm drain sump during Hurricane Belle that had a clogged overflow pipe out to the street. It was threatening to overflow and flood the driveway and into his mother's basement apartment.
He was manning the pump controls so I picked up the 1-1/2 brass nozzle so it wouldn't whip around. He opened the valve and it threw me up against the chain link fence right behind me and was starting to push the fence over. Only way to stop being thrown over backwards and not blast him and the truck in front of me was I swung the nozzle off to the right, over the fence, .....and it cleaned all the neighbor's kid's Fisher Price yard toys into the next yard.
Next day, when everyone was out inspecting for storm damage, the neighbor mentioned to him how the storm was so strong it blew all their backyard stuff over the fence.
Paul
- warminmn
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- Joined: Tue. Feb. 08, 2011 5:59 pm
- Location: Land of 11,842 lakes
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Junior, Efel Nestor Martin, Riteway 37
- Coal Size/Type: nut and stove anthracite, lignite
- Other Heating: Wood and wear a wool shirt
Hmmmm, maybe I need one to do a quick mow of my lawn...
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- Joined: Sat. May. 24, 2008 4:26 pm
- Location: Chester, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
I just did a quick mow. Flippers and goggles help a lot.
- Hambden Bob
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- Location: Hambden Twp. Geauga County,Ohio
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Harman 1998 Magnum Stoker
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Blower Model Coal Chubby 1982-Serial#0097
- Coal Size/Type: Rice-A-Roni ! / Nut
- Other Heating: Pro-Pain Forced Air
Gawd! The True Nature Of This Board's Summer Population Shines Right Here,Right Now!!!
Thank God I'm on the can,typing this and laughing so hard that I could... Uh,You get the picture!
I've had alot of time on Rigs,and You've All made me smile remembering it! Thanx!!
Thank God I'm on the can,typing this and laughing so hard that I could... Uh,You get the picture!
I've had alot of time on Rigs,and You've All made me smile remembering it! Thanx!!
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- Posts: 8601
- Joined: Sat. May. 24, 2008 4:26 pm
- Location: Chester, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
THIS is what you drive to the ice cream store in those summer evenings.
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- Sunny Boy
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- Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
- Location: Central NY
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
- Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
- Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
- Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace
Ah yes, bugs in your teeth, the sound of that big t-head engine, mixed with the swish of those big chains. Nothing else like it.
Paul
Paul