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barley master
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Post by barley master » Thu. Nov. 16, 2006 8:45 am

this is one of my stoves. it capable of burning two tons an hr at high fire.

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Post by davemich » Thu. Nov. 16, 2006 11:40 am

What in blue blazes are you heating???

 
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Post by WNY » Thu. Nov. 16, 2006 2:01 pm

Cozmo - yours is the same as ours,

It looks a bit close on the left side of the wall. Shouldn't you have a fire board protector? Ours gets really hot (500 Degrees on the sides) when all fired up!! I think there is a min. distance diagram on the back of the stove...

 
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Post by cozmo469 » Thu. Nov. 16, 2006 3:39 pm

WNY wrote:Cozmo - yours is the same as ours,

It looks a bit close on the left side of the wall. Shouldn't you have a fire board protector? Ours gets really hot (500 Degrees on the sides) when all fired up!! I think there is a min. distance diagram on the back of the stove...
The minimum distance is 12 inches. I have 13. I had it cranked and the wall did get warm, but did not seem to be excessive. If it does become an issue, I will probably angle it in the corner. I wanted to have a straight shot through the wall, which is why it was places where it is.

Tom

 
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Post by barley master » Thu. Nov. 16, 2006 6:06 pm

its one of my five units where I work. it has rating of 250 hp of a water tube boiler that sits on top of it.
operating conditions:
stoker
fuel buckwheat #3 (barley)
forced draft fan 1.5"- 4" iwc (pos)
induced draft fan -.05" (neg)
uptake 2-5" iwc (stack)
exit temp. 400-650*f
bed depth 3.5-4.5"
bed width 8'
bed length 12'
boiler conditions
pressure 100 psi (160 mwp)
steam flow 0 to16550 pounds per hr. (33 gpm water flow)
steam temp 338*F
date installed 1948
i have two more identical units to this one and two that are bigger and rated for 450 hp ea.
used for university steam services

 
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Post by bobkat » Sat. Nov. 25, 2006 10:14 am

Here is a picture of my Hitzer 50-93 "hard at work" currently using straight through with no damper. Considering either a manual or baro in the near future to keep heat where it belongs.

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Post by Flathead Youngin' » Wed. Nov. 29, 2006 10:02 pm

here's my Buckeye 137.......he'll get the royal treatment with a fresh coat of paint and I just installed all new metalbestos through the ceiling.....

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Post by EasyRay » Thu. Nov. 30, 2006 10:22 am

Well I got rid of my old Temp Coal II stove after 30+ years and bought this Harman TLC 2000 and I've had it running since 10/26/06. My wife wanted something a little more appealing to the eyes.
I wish it would get a little cooler though.

My other stove was a top loader and I like that feature so hence, another top loader.

Regards, Ray

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Post by Matthaus » Tue. Dec. 05, 2006 10:44 am

Just hooked up the Harman in the garage, keeps everything a toasty 65 degrees without much effort on the stove's part. Using a 5" Field Controls power venter under the eave (14' off the ground). Still don't even have the ceiling up and there are open spaces to the roof area through the insulation! :P

This stove is definitely going in the house and the Alaska is going up for sale!

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Post by boilermaker » Tue. Dec. 05, 2006 8:30 pm

barley master wrote:this is one of my stoves. it capable of burning two tons an hr at high fire.
:)

Hi!
That is SO cool! I work on large boilers for a living and would love to see something like this in action. Where is it and what does it provide heat/steam for?? :)

Doug

 
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Post by boilermaker » Tue. Dec. 05, 2006 9:48 pm

Here's my set-up. A hand fired Tarm boiler. Coal bin on the left with the orange handled "stoker" laying in the bin. The white tank is my water heater. Actually and old oil fired unit that I use for a storage heater. You can see the sidearm heater I built between the boiler and the tank. Water circualtes (by convection) to this unit and when the tank needs hot water heated it turns on the brown circulator you see above the tank. This pulls water out of the top of the tank, circulates it through the sidearm and back into the bottom of the tank. It's 40 gallons. Even with convection supplying the heated water to the sidearm, we never run out of hot water and we had 4 kids - 3 of them girls!
Anyway, it's old-timey but it's a great system. It doesn't look like much but that pile of coal you see (about 3 tons) is all it takes to heat my home of 4 bedrooms, living, bath, dining, large kitchen, and even the cellar in northern NY state near Quebec Canada. During the summer I make a quick conversion to oil and burn about 100 gallons to heat my hot water for domectic use from April to November or so. When I change it over I do the yearly, thorough cleaning from top to bottom of the unit.

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Post by JerseyCoal » Thu. Dec. 14, 2006 5:55 pm

Here's a photo of my 1985 Franco Belge, refurbed last year.

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Post by europachris » Thu. Dec. 14, 2006 8:39 pm

Very nice stove! Thanks for the pic.

It's a shame that the Franco Belge, Surdiac, Weso, Haas & Sohn, Koppe, and other fine European stoves aren't available anymore. Heck, Jotul used to be THE name in stoves, but now you hardly hear of them.

On that same note, there are only a handful of US stove manufacturers left in the game, compared to the dozens if not hundreds during the "stove boom" of the 70's.

Chris

 
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Post by JerseyCoal » Thu. Dec. 14, 2006 11:23 pm

Chris:

I understand that the European stovemakers are still doing well, in Europe. When I started looking for a Franco Belge two years ago, a former dealer told me that they no longer ship to North America because of American environmental regulations. I vaguely remember something about requiring secondary air supply and secondary combustion above the coal bed. I may be wrong but, as far as I can determine, on my stove a bi-metal adjustable thermostat controls the air supply which is directed UNDER the coal bed. Perhaps that is why it cannot meet federal regulations.

If anyone else is burning in a Franco Belge, let me know how it's going.

 
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Post by dutch » Fri. Dec. 15, 2006 8:55 am

Here is my Mark III,
although today I'm letting it
burn out! (56 today and 59 sunday?)
It's December!! feels like April!

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