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Re: Burning Wet Coal
Posted: Fri. Mar. 01, 2013 10:22 pm
by dcrane
used motor oil is a NO NO! new motor oil is OK, but again... Ive always liked peanut oil for many decades because its thin and sprays nice, I never had issue with rodents but then again I don't leave any opening for them anyways so they would be hard pressed to get in my house
Re: Burning Wet Coal
Posted: Mon. Mar. 04, 2013 7:19 am
by coalrocks
I use water, bonus smells like fourth of July
Re: Burning Wet Coal
Posted: Mon. Mar. 04, 2013 3:20 pm
by dcrane
coalrocks wrote:I use water, bonus smells like fourth of July
coating your coal with water hurts not only the stove & pipe over the long haul, it hurts BTU output and only keeps dust down for mear minutes. oil is a better, safer more long term solution that acually increases BTU output. save the water to wash down that beautiful pure lilly white enamaling at the end of the season
JKJK
Re: Burning Wet Coal
Posted: Mon. Mar. 04, 2013 3:39 pm
by SMITTY
For the record, I don't to anything to my coal. Just open the bag, and shovel it in. If I had bulk, I still wouldn't. The flyash makes more of a mess than coal dust ever could, IMO. I don't even notice that until visitors point that out. I tell them - you don't like, don't visit. Works for me.
BTW, tranny fluid is THE BEST used oil to burn. It's clean & burns really easy.
I've got probably 60 gallons of used oil out in the barn. Once I get a stoker furnace I have hooked up out there, I might install a drip system onto the burn plate. Might make a mess, but at least the barn will be warm when I need it to be.