If I post a pic, will that help? It's bigger than pea coal, and it's shiny and mishapen. That's about all I know about it...Devil505 wrote: It sounds like you are burning bituminous coal??? (do you know if it's Bit coal..soft...or hard coal...Anthracite?)
If it's bituminous, there's a forum just for Bit coal & allot of us no very little about it. I'd recommend burning Anthracite in that stove.
Do you know which type of coal it is?
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Pics help. Tap it with a hammer, if it is anthracite it will fracture cleanly with shards, wear eye protection!
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Open the link below and tell us what size does it look like the most that will help us to help you . Welcome ShellieShellie_wnj wrote:If I post a pic, will that help? It's bigger than pea coal, and it's shiny and mishapen. That's about all I know about it...Devil505 wrote: It sounds like you are burning bituminous coal??? (do you know if it's Bit coal..soft...or hard coal...Anthracite?)
If it's bituminous, there's a forum just for Bit coal & allot of us no very little about it. I'd recommend burning Anthracite in that stove.
Do you know which type of coal it is?
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Looking at those pictures, it's probably stove or chestnut - more than likely stove.
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Kresge's coal in Saylorsburg sells bit. but you need to ask for it specifically. It's in the back away from the anthracite.tvb wrote:Given her location, it would be pretty unusual to even be able to find bit coal.
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I cant even try until all the little ones are safe in their beds. I tried earlier and it was chaos.Pete69 wrote:Get that stove cooking yet?
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And we have heat!!! Thank you guys for all your help!!! It took 2 tries, but I got it started Now just to keep it going....
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Just keep adding a few shovels at a time so the coal bed does not need a large batch all at once.
Once you get some burn time under your belt you can wait longer between adding coal.
It does not hurt to add often and creates more even heat and less chance for a fire outage!
Give it a little shake every 4 hours or so if you are there, every 8-12 hours is the norm, but you are still in learning mode and it is better to be overly cautious untill you get the 'hang' of it!
Once you get some burn time under your belt you can wait longer between adding coal.
It does not hurt to add often and creates more even heat and less chance for a fire outage!
Give it a little shake every 4 hours or so if you are there, every 8-12 hours is the norm, but you are still in learning mode and it is better to be overly cautious untill you get the 'hang' of it!
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You know what they say about assumptions!
Even if it seemed like the only logical coal type seemed to be hard coal there is always the possibility that it might have been soft coal.
Much like the famous 'too stupid to own a computer' story getting to the root of the problem is key to the solution!
http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/wordperfect.asp
Even if it seemed like the only logical coal type seemed to be hard coal there is always the possibility that it might have been soft coal.
Much like the famous 'too stupid to own a computer' story getting to the root of the problem is key to the solution!
http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/wordperfect.asp