Pea Vs. Stove

I hear stove coal being talked about a lot, is that the same size as pea?

According to the Reading anthracite know your coal sizes chart, stove coal is 2-7/16 x 1-5/8. I have a bunch of it, it's burning really well in my stove. Some pieces are tennis ball size or even a little bigger.

Thanks, so it is larger then nut. Nice to know

It sure does. I'm trying to throttle down my fire right now. It was waning, and I seem to be enjoying a balmy temperature of 75* in here when the fire is behaving itself. As the environment chilled to an icy 71*, I added some stove coal to the fire and poked up through the grate to drop some ash. In about an hour the stack temp was going over 200* so I turned in the ash door knob a little and adjusted the baro to a rough .02. A little closing of the mpd. Stack temp is coming down a little and the fire seems to be calming down. Next time I poke ash I'll try doing every other hole, It seems I can utilize the ash buildup itself to tone the fire down somewhat. Sometimes I poke the ash out and the whole bed of coal sinks down to about halfway up the firebricks. This happened earlier and the coal I added seemed to all catch on rapidly in less than an hour. It got too roasty toasty in here so I opened the door to the unheated garage, a great ploy of mine to bring the cottage temp down quickly.
And these are all the variables that modern heating systems have eliminated. Where's the fun in that?

valleycoal wrote:I hear stove coal being talked about a lot, is that the same size as pea?

Here are the standard sizes for Anthracite coal .Also not shownd Is EGG Size it is larger then Stove
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