Pictures of Your Stove

As a new member, l would like to share my coal burning bad and good experiences.
After more than 20Y. of wood burning, l decided to burn anthracite and sold my Everburn wood stove.After years of researches(this forum is a gold mine),l bought a new Vigilant ll coal stove. l removed the restriction plate and realised that the stove had a lot of weak points in the conception. The stove didn't heat very much and was worst after a couple of days of burning. l tried all l could but it never worked correctly.So l decided to do some modif. to the stove. Nothing to do! This year l decided to get back to wood burning but tried for the last time a few modif. More than 12 modif. some minor some major.With the same house, same chimney, same anthracite(chestnut), the stove became perfect. Much more heat with a lot less anthracite, no more ash build up and no shut down (excepted for a video). l even asked my daughter to perform the 24h. process in the video to show how it was easy to burn anthracite now. The stove must be safe to use and now it is even safer and bullet proof. Now all my family love burning anthracite.(l apologize for my English).
Salutations.

2 Videos: A Different Vigilant II coal stove
Part 1 of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LuJhV96RK0
Part 2 of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPwjPsNnc9k

Great job on the stove. Good video. Should be required viewing for all
the wives on the forum. Tending a stove is not hard. You enjoy the heat more
by the effort put in.

Tom

Thank you tsb, like l said (and red on w. sites), the V.C. VigilantII was very difficult to work with and many wrote that it was a cave age stove. There were so much places for ash build up so the stove was always choked. The shaking syst. couldn't get rid of that ash. Now it burns non-stop and takes about halft the anthracite it was taking before with much more heat. Now I can talk of anthracit burning without shame.
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This video is a very good example of running a hand fired stove.

Thank You for posting it.

BigBarney

Awesome mods! Its almost like a new stove! Good video, Excellent work The cats look happy too

She's a pro!

DVC500 at last wrote:Awesome mods! Its almost like a new stove! Good video, Excellent work The cats look happy too

Yes you are right the cats like the stove as much as I do.
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BigBarney wrote:This video is a very good example of running a hand fired stove.

Thank You for posting it.

BigBarney

Thank you to take time for the comments.
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rockwood wrote:She's a pro!

Thank you, she really surprised me when she accepted for the video because it was only the second time she tends the stove.
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I don't have a picture,just wondering if any uses or has heard of Timbereze stoves?

No, thats a new one on me, never heard it mentioned on here.

Bk

I knew that I have seen Timber eze stoves and I found something in one of my old books. Hope this helps.

Hi everyone,

Here's my stove. Harman Sf-260 boiler.First year using coal and I'm hooked. I heat 1700 sq ft. home and hot water. House is newly contructed. I use a water to air heating coil, in the bottom of my down draft hot air oil furnance that heat the house nicely. The radient heat that comes off the boiler heats my garage 50-60.

Here is my Harman SF-160 I threw out the old oil burner in May and installed the Harman. I use this as my only heating source. I have been burning coal since December. I am hooked as well! Im heating about 1200 sf using pea coal and hot water baseboard. I have burned about 3 tons this season.