Coal fines / dust usages ???

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Post by Spacecadet » Wed. Jul. 01, 2020 12:51 am

How do you guys use it. Do you use it or just dispose of it. Right now it’s days away from Independence Day. Waiting for a fresh delivery, Ive cleaned my coal bin out. Overall I’ve got seven 5 gallon buckets full of fines and dust. Some rice and pea but not enough to pick through it. What do ya do with 7 buckets full.
Any good Suggestions ?
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Post by Den034071 » Wed. Jul. 01, 2020 8:16 am

Space I have the 3095 .I just add them on top of the fire on windy nights .Jack

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Jul. 01, 2020 8:24 am

What Jack said.

There's heat you paid for in those fines and if carefully added to a firebed in small amounts you'll get that heat.

I don't spread the fines over the firebed. I add them in clumps like they are a large piece of coal. That way they can burn without smothering the firebed.

Some guys do spread the fines over a firebed when they want to slow the fire down, such as during a warm spell.

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Post by D-frost » Wed. Jul. 01, 2020 1:17 pm

I burn from 40lb bags......not a lot of dust/fines, but, I burn what's there. I rotate 2 coal hods and dump the fines of the empty hod on top of the just filled hod. It mixes and burns.
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Post by Spacecadet » Thu. Jul. 02, 2020 12:14 pm

I’ve used a lot of the fines Through out the heating season. This is debris in the bottom of the bin. I’m expecting my coal delivery soon. 7 buckets of fines is slot of waste. 7 buckets of nut in its place could heat the house for a few weeks

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Thu. Jul. 02, 2020 1:19 pm

It's only waste if you don't burn it. Adding one small shovel of it a day to the firebed, those 7 buckets will be used up before end of season. And that's close to the same BTUs as those same 7 buckets full of nut coal.

BTW, a 5 gallon bucket of nut is about 40 pounds, so that's around 200 pounds times how many BTUs in a pound,....

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Post by CapeCoaler » Thu. Jul. 02, 2020 10:14 pm

Yep just burn a small shovel at each load...
The 503 has a hopper so I just top the hopper with a shovel of fines...

 
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Post by charlesosborne2002 » Fri. Jul. 03, 2020 7:26 pm

D-frost wrote:
Wed. Jul. 01, 2020 1:17 pm
I burn from 40lb bags......not a lot of dust/fines, but, I burn what's there. I rotate 2 coal hods and dump the fines of the empty hod on top of the just filled hod. It mixes and burns.
Cheers
That is exactly what I do, D-frost. I load at the top--I have the Vigilant 2 also.

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