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 ?
Thanks.
Coal fines / dust usages ???
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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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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.
Paul
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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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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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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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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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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...
The 503 has a hopper so I just top the hopper with a shovel of fines...
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That is exactly what I do, D-frost. I load at the top--I have the Vigilant 2 also.