The Cold Weather Is Here!
- warminmn
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- Posts: 8186
- Joined: Tue. Feb. 08, 2011 5:59 pm
- Location: Land of 11,842 lakes
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Junior, Riteway 37
- Coal Size/Type: nut and stove anthracite, lignite
- Other Heating: Wood and wear a wool shirt
Thats for sure! And winter isnt over yet! Our Alaskan and Canadian members dont post often except Wren and he moved.
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- Posts: 854
- Joined: Sat. Dec. 10, 2011 4:07 pm
- Location: Berks County
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: DS Machine 1400 WH ciculator; 1880's small cannon in reserve
- Coal Size/Type: Nut
- Other Heating: small New Yorker oil fired boiler; mostly used for domestic HW
There are others as well, but I enjoyed the posts from "Short Bus" in Alaska, some years back. He had some sort of stoker set up running sub bit in some crazy temps.
- anthony7812
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- Posts: 5154
- Joined: Sat. Mar. 12, 2011 2:04 pm
- Location: Colley,Pennsylvania
- Stoker Coal Boiler: VanWert VA 400
- Coal Size/Type: Buck/Anthracite
The green machine is humming along smoothly. I'm planning on a really good cleaning next week. Shut down, good blowout out the fines, brush and vac job of everything(including pipes) I see some 40's on deck potentially. I have noticed this cold weather is making for some long burn times, but nothing that would indicate she isn't keeping up. Also noticed the bin being eatin up quicker but again this cold and adding the dhw exchanger. I'm very impressed with the performance. I'm heating 2200~sqft brick ranch to about 72ish. I went crazy with the zones so master bed and bath is 70, kids are 71 (2 separate zones) and main living kitchen and 2nd bath is 72. I keep the basement zone set to about 67. Rarely runs do to boiler being almost central of the basement wall. Good Ole cat irons down there. Anywho good preventive maintenance and even the little guy won't struggle much when push comes to shove.
- CoalHeat
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- Posts: 8862
- Joined: Sat. Feb. 10, 2007 9:48 pm
- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
1 Ton on January 15th for the handfed and this is what is left today. At almost 2.5 ton thru the Harman and 2 ton thru the EFM for this winter.
- CoalHeat
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- Posts: 8862
- Joined: Sat. Feb. 10, 2007 9:48 pm
- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
Stove still burning, it ain't over yet.
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- Posts: 3936
- Joined: Fri. Aug. 16, 2019 3:02 pm
- Location: Oneida, N.Y.
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harmon Mark II
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Looking
- Baseburners & Antiques: Looking
- Coal Size/Type: Nut
- Other Heating: newmac wood/coal combo furnace
- CoalHeat
- Member
- Posts: 8862
- Joined: Sat. Feb. 10, 2007 9:48 pm
- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
It's week by week here now. I've already had days and nights when I've had windows open and the stove barely burning, few days later and I have it pumping out the heat.
- CoalHeat
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- Posts: 8862
- Joined: Sat. Feb. 10, 2007 9:48 pm
- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
- CoalHeat
- Member
- Posts: 8862
- Joined: Sat. Feb. 10, 2007 9:48 pm
- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harman Magnafire Mark I
- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
Yep, we still need that warm radiant heat!
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- Posts: 3936
- Joined: Fri. Aug. 16, 2019 3:02 pm
- Location: Oneida, N.Y.
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harmon Mark II
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Looking
- Baseburners & Antiques: Looking
- Coal Size/Type: Nut
- Other Heating: newmac wood/coal combo furnace
I like the weather underground site, especially the ten day setup. That windchill is scary.
- Rob R.
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- Posts: 18004
- Joined: Fri. Dec. 28, 2007 4:26 pm
- Location: Chazy, NY
- Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 520
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Jr
It is -10F here with a wind-chill of -30F. My house is warm, but the boiler is definitely running a lot.
I have already heard about some people with no heat this morning. I can't imagine how backed up the service guys are.
I have already heard about some people with no heat this morning. I can't imagine how backed up the service guys are.
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- Posts: 1490
- Joined: Wed. Aug. 28, 2019 1:54 pm
- Location: NEPA
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Glacier Bay
- Coal Size/Type: nut
- Other Heating: electric
Wow, that's a lot colder than us. Tomorrow is our lowest morning temp. Somewhere around 0. Today's morning low was 11 here and windy. It always amazes me how much hotter the stove runs when it is cold out at the same setting. I have no baro. The wind sucked most of the fire out of the stove. I usually just reduce the primary air intake on windy days but this Blaschak I have been burning needs a lot of air to burn. I estimated the turn down wrong. Should have reduced it a full turn. Currently running at 3 1/2 turns open. Last night 3 turns out.
- Rob R.
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- Posts: 18004
- Joined: Fri. Dec. 28, 2007 4:26 pm
- Location: Chazy, NY
- Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 520
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Jr
Same thing happened to me, I guessed wrong on the Chubby JR air setting and it was out this morning. Probably just as well, the heat from the boiler and piping alone has the basement up to 72.