G111 Continued

tcalo · Post by **tcalo** » Sun. Apr. 25, 2021 3:01 pm

Holy crap Joe, that's some pile of coal!!!! Reburn that stuff. Glad she's all cleaned up and ready for another season. I'm itching to get my Crawford going. It was a short burning season for me since we moved in November. I only burned for about a month before the move. I need to build a hearth and set up the stove at the new house. Yes, I took her with me!!! Stay safe in these troubling times my friend!!

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Sun. Apr. 25, 2021 6:19 pm

Thanks Tom. Can't wait to see your stove setting in your new house. Enjoy the summer.

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Mon. Nov. 01, 2021 7:03 pm

Just wiping the dust off this thread, and getting ready for the 2021/22 heating season.
If mother nature continues this season, like she acted in the summer, we may be in for a white winter (Can I "legally" say that?)

Mainly cause we got lots of rain. Need to get the cobwebs off the snow throwers, and freshen up the gas. Still in the leaf removal stages tho.

The nights have been toying with us, and have dropped to an uncomfortable range a few times, so I decided to throw some "wood"

in the G111, and see what transpires. (Just for a few hrs of nighttime TV viewing). I have some hardwood in the backyard for fire-pitting, and chopped some down to fit in the stove. Every time I try this, I seem to over heat my Glenwood, so this time I really tried to dampen the heat by closing down the MPD a bit, and also shut the primaries. Had the load door holes wide open tho, to give some air to the logs. There were times when the combustion chamber heat was about 500°, and it did get our living room up to 80 in a short time. But it doesn't last long. Had to dump the few logs in that I had cut periodically, to keep the fire going. I enjoyed the heat, the flames, and the little ash left-over. But I don't like cutting up the logs to fit. double edge sword, I guess.
Anyway, welcome to 2021/22.

tcalo · Post by **tcalo** » Tue. Nov. 02, 2021 8:22 am

Good to hear from you Joe. We are also busy with a yard full of leaves. I may light off soon, temps are dipping to uncomfortable levels. Keep the updates coming my friend.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Nov. 02, 2021 11:08 am

Yup, good to see your ready for another season of coal heat and "top of the page Joe".

We couldn't wait any longer - 32F last night and 36 F this morning, so I fired up the first coal fire. And thanks to a warmer October, we're starting a month later than any other year.

Paul

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Tue. Nov. 02, 2021 4:37 pm

tcalo wrote: ↑
Tue. Nov. 02, 2021 8:22 am
Good to hear from you Joe. We are also busy with a yard full of leaves. I may light off soon, temps are dipping to uncomfortable levels. Keep the updates coming my friend.

Sunny Boy wrote: ↑
Tue. Nov. 02, 2021 11:08 am
Yup, good to see your ready for another season of coal heat and "top of the page Joe".

We couldn't wait any longer - 32F last night and 36 F this morning, so I fired up the first coal fire. And thanks to a warmer October, we're starting a month later than any other year.

Paul

Hello gentlemen. Glad to see you guys survived another CV-19 summer.
I just came back from voting in our local election, and the morons are still requiring masks. Drives me absolutely crazy. Bad enuff I have-ta wear it 8 hrs in work. (I could go on, but I'll spare ya.)
Tom, I'm trying to hold out till after Thanksgiving. You're a bit higher than me, so you'll probably beat me.
And Paul, you cracked me up with the "TOTP". (LOL). And by the way, was that a "misprint" in your comment? Did you say your low was "minus" 32°? Are you in Alaska?

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Tue. Nov. 02, 2021 5:16 pm

Dash,... as in a pause - not a minus 32F.

The minus temps will be here soon enough.

Paul

Hoytman · Post by **Hoytman** » Tue. Nov. 02, 2021 8:38 pm

joeq wrote: ↑
Tue. Nov. 02, 2021 4:37 pm
, was that a "misprint" in your comment? Did you say your low was "minus" 32°? Are you in Alaska?

Had me wondering the same thing. Ha! I thought, dang, that is cold already and a huge temp swing as well. LOL!

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Sun. Nov. 28, 2021 12:56 pm

And now, (finally) my 2021/22 Glenwood season has arrived. I wuz outside adding to, and turning over my compost pile, and the flurries were coming down. Altho it's mid 30s, my fingers were frozen, so I told the wife, "no more temporary wood fires, I'm putting some real heat in that thing".
Got about a half hr invested in the bed right now.

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Hoytman · Post by **Hoytman** » Sun. Nov. 28, 2021 2:13 pm

Nice!!! I like that.

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Sun. Nov. 28, 2021 2:19 pm

Thanks Bill. The temps are slowly rising, but the house is toasty. Got your Hitzer fired yet?

tcalo · Post by **tcalo** » Sun. Nov. 28, 2021 3:35 pm

Good to see you join the party Joe

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Sun. Nov. 28, 2021 4:00 pm

Thanks Tom, good to be back. Got yours up too? Hope you had a decent Thanksgiving weekend.

tcalo · Post by **tcalo** » Sun. Nov. 28, 2021 11:10 pm

joeq wrote: ↑
Sun. Nov. 28, 2021 4:00 pm
Thanks Tom, good to be back. Got yours up too? Hope you had a decent Thanksgiving weekend.

Thanksgiving weekend was good, thanks. Hope yours was good as well! I usually light up Halloween evening. Right on schedule this year too. Pushed through some warm weather but it looks like the cold is here to stay.

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Mon. Nov. 29, 2021 5:21 pm

I know we all have seen these before, but this is the 1st time I've seen blue flames in the winter of 21, (2021, for you "mature" members"

) 1st clean-out/shakedown of the season, and a juvenile coal bed trying to develop. I'm sure my vertical photo will become horizonal, but there's nothing I can do. You'll have-ta use your imagination.

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