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Thanks everyone for the compliments. It does heat the house very nicely eventhough the great room to the right has a 26' ceiling. No, I did not do the stone work,, a guy from central Maine who also did the foundation work did it. The chimney and stone work is not a true masonary chimney,, it's weight would have been massive. Instead it is a plywood box 10'x6' with the stones cemented on but still has the look and feel of a conventional masonary chimney. It still has some weight to it and is supported in the basement with columns. The cook stove exhaust pipe connects to a metalbestos pipe that run up inside the box and through the roof. I did not need a baro because the smoke/fumes run under the cooktop, around the oven , down the right side and under then exit up the stainless steel pipe at the rear.
Regarding the question to the timbers ,, the vertical ones are 8"x8", the horizontal ones 8"x14".

Eric

Thanks for all the pictures (so far) everyone.I enjoy looking at the many nice set ups.I even like looking at the ugly boilers like mine.

This is the set up at our cabin. It only gets used a few times a year. A Barometric Damper is on the agenda.

n3hcp wrote:This is the set up at our cabin.

Nice looking set up! (Mine is never that clean )

KA 8 hooked up in series with oil fired boiler, using all oil boiler controls.

Ours has been running steady since Oct. 11, 2008. Great stove - Pioneer by Leisure Line. Love the warmth.

Ours has been running for two weeks now heating a 2000sf 1950's house. We love it!

Hello, I have been lurking this site for a while and found a lot of helpful information on it. I have been burning wood and coal for 15 years, but strictly coal this passed year. The old Riteway needs rebuilding, so I got a Hitzer82 which is almost identical to the Riteway.

The Kodiak finally arrived on Thursday + 1.5 ton of nut. Attempted to season it in the garage but couldn't get it lit. I was late in the day anyway. I started with charcoal then added 2" of nut and tried to help it along with a map gas torch it looked like it was on its way but when I got back to it it was dying. I rigged up a fan and put it in front of the combustion air vents but I think it was too late. I was thinking of smashing up some of the nut into smaller pieces and leaving the fan on it constantly when I add the coal this time. What do you think? do I need a longer pipe if it's out side? I have a tee on it now,that about 12" of pipe.
john

You won't get coal to burn in that shallow of a fire. If you just want to season it before bringing it into the house, I would use small pieces of wood, or a lot more charcoal.

First time I've seen the inside of a Kodiak, didn't know they used a circular grate, looks like a beauty though, good luck with it.

Thanks I guess I'll just try a charcoal and hardwood fire in the morning, I'm assuming I just want to get some heat in the fire brick at this point. I plan on taking most of it apart to lighten it up enough to get it in the house
Here is a picture of the grate.

john

Here's a picture of my new set up. Been up and running for a month. Its a 395,000 BTU coal stoker with a water boiler sitting on top of it. Its in my garage. Water is pumped into my ductwork and I use the fan on my propane furnace to take the heat off a heat exchanger. Figured cost of heat for the first month and its costing me $2.40 a day to heat my house.
I've got a 6 ton hopper bottom grain bin set up outside with a 7' auger that automatically feeds it when it calls for coal.

very nice, any pictures of the fire? btw, $85/ton for wyoming/montana subbituminous??? that's way too much, i'm paying anywhere from 65-100/ton for eastern bituminous and it's around 13,000btu's/lb. someone's overcharging you.

new here, but thought i'd post pics of my of my upstairs stove. when I have pics of the downstairs kachleoven (which can burn coal besides wood) i'll post that, too. don't know too much about the upstairs stove. it's a Wittigstahl mult-fuel, probably original to the house, can crank out a good amount of heat, and my 12 year old lab I brought with me when I moved from chicago to germany loves it (should have seen the look on the city official when she asked, "and where was your dog previously registered?" "chicago." jaw hits floor...

Hello,
Here is my newly referbished statford sc75, Nice and hot fire ....