Looking at Stokers
- ASea
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- Location: Athol Massachusetts
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Alaska Kast Console II
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Coal Chubby
- Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood Modern Oak 114, Glenwood 30 "Estate" Warm Morning 120
- Coal Size/Type: Sherman Anthracite Nut/Stove from C&T Coal
- Other Heating: Peerless Boiler with Cast Iron Baseboards
Why should I buy a Leisure Line over other brands what's the difference?
- Flyer5
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- Joined: Sun. Oct. 21, 2007 4:23 pm
- Location: Montrose PA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Leisure Line WL110
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Leisure Line Pioneer
- Contact:
We keep a presence here. We have one of the simplest design stokers. We have a 3 yr warranty on all electrical parts. We have a strong customer support base. American made. Coal Trol Thermostat.ASea wrote:Why should I buy a Leisure Line over other brands what's the difference?
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- Location: Dalton, MA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: H.B. Smith 350 Mills boiler/EFM 85R stoker
- Coal Size/Type: Buckwheat/anthracite
I think you forgot to mention that you and Matt are good guys.Flyer5 wrote: We keep a presence here. We have one of the simplest design stokers. We have a 3 yr warranty on all electrical parts. We have a strong customer support base. American made. Coal Trol Thermostat.
Mike
- Flyer5
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- Location: Montrose PA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Leisure Line WL110
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Leisure Line Pioneer
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Thanks Mike.Pacowy wrote:I think you forgot to mention that you and Matt are good guys.Flyer5 wrote: We keep a presence here. We have one of the simplest design stokers. We have a 3 yr warranty on all electrical parts. We have a strong customer support base. American made. Coal Trol Thermostat.
Mike
I am the better looking one though.
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- Joined: Wed. Jan. 29, 2014 7:44 am
- Location: Waterford, CT
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL Pioneer LE/T
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
Also lots of LL users on here that can also help with advice.
Great support from Matt and Dave!
The biggest reason....Their products work great! -8 actual temperature a couple weeks ago at my house (Wind chill far below that) and my LL Pioneer 90K BTU model kept my 2400+ Sq. Ft. home toasty warm with little effort. A lot warmer than I would ever heat the house with oil.
Great support from Matt and Dave!
The biggest reason....Their products work great! -8 actual temperature a couple weeks ago at my house (Wind chill far below that) and my LL Pioneer 90K BTU model kept my 2400+ Sq. Ft. home toasty warm with little effort. A lot warmer than I would ever heat the house with oil.
- ChrisS
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- Joined: Thu. Oct. 09, 2014 1:48 pm
- Location: Bethlehem, PA
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: Keystoker Koker
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Blaschak, Lehigh Anthracite
- Other Heating: Heat Pump (set to "OFF" now), Propane FP insert
We are on year two with a Keystoker. Zero complaints. Must admit, I was not familiar with or introduced to LL when we bought it. While I did not enjoy the recent extreme cold, I love watching the stoker deal with the temperature, like she was just waiting for a good challenge. 72-degrees was no problem in the house.
- ASea
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- Joined: Thu. Nov. 27, 2014 8:55 pm
- Location: Athol Massachusetts
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Alaska Kast Console II
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Coal Chubby
- Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood Modern Oak 114, Glenwood 30 "Estate" Warm Morning 120
- Coal Size/Type: Sherman Anthracite Nut/Stove from C&T Coal
- Other Heating: Peerless Boiler with Cast Iron Baseboards
I have a Chubby Blower model now. When I am not home it is allowed to go out, my Wife does not want to tend it. My thoughts were the stoker would be easier on us all,all she would be required to do is dump in a bag of coal or empty the ash pan if it was overflowing. No need to shake or have the grate jam etc. Plus the capacity on the stoker is 80lbs of rice vs 35lbs of nut in the chubby and the ash pan is huge vs the Chubby.Rob R. wrote:Are you considering a stoker stove or a boiler?ASea wrote:Why should I buy a Leisure Line over other brands what's the difference?
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You could let the stove run out a couple times when yer on the road and see ifn her attitude changes a little.........
She might just start to love yer little chubby..... not sure that came out correctly??????
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She might just start to love yer little chubby..... not sure that came out correctly??????
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- SWPaDon
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Clayton 1600M
- Coal Size/Type: Bituminous
- Other Heating: Oil furnace
waldo lemieux wrote:You could let the stove run out a couple times when yer on the road and see ifn her attitude changes a little.........
She might just start to love yer little chubby..... not sure that came out correctly??????
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- ASea
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- Joined: Thu. Nov. 27, 2014 8:55 pm
- Location: Athol Massachusetts
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Alaska Kast Console II
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Coal Chubby
- Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood Modern Oak 114, Glenwood 30 "Estate" Warm Morning 120
- Coal Size/Type: Sherman Anthracite Nut/Stove from C&T Coal
- Other Heating: Peerless Boiler with Cast Iron Baseboards
She is happy to turn up the thermostat on the oil burner which this year isn't a big deal. If Oil goes back up and I believe it will I want to be ready.
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- Location: Waterford, CT
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL Pioneer LE/T
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
My wife can and has tended the stove, though she hasn't needed to all that often. My Pioneer holds 110 lbs of rice coal, that amount of coal will last quite a while. It does require what I call "ramping the hopper" which is nothing more than pulling the coal from the sides of the hopper to the front middle (where the coal gets drawn into the stove) and the reverse of that in the ash pan. I use the same shovel I "ramp" with to make a hole in the ash pile that is in the ash pan. That gives extra time for the falling ash to fill the pan without overflowing. I burn Blaschak 40lb bags of rice, she can and has been able to put a 40lb bag into the hopper. I spend about 5 minutes a day tending the stove this way, and empty the ash pan from about once to twice a week on average. I empty the ash pan into a galvanized garbage can (about half the size of a full size can) that sits outside 24/7. When that can gets full I throw it into the pickup truck and take it to my local firehouse (less than .5 mile from home) and empty it into 55 gallon drums they have setup for ash disposal, takes about 15 minutes. So on average I spend less than an hour a week tending to heat my home. Way warmer than with oil, way cheaper than with oil.
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- Location: Springwater NY, (Western NY)
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Keystoker 105 - SOLD
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 30-95 - Garage
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: HITZER 50-93 - HOUSE
- Coal Size/Type: NUT
- Other Heating: PROPANE FURNACE, ELECTIC BASE BOARD, AND WOOD FIRE PLACE
The GF takes care of all the stoves. Hitzer 30-95 in the garage, Keystoker 105 in the house, and the wood fire place in the living room when we use it.
- Uglysquirrel
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Lots of folks discuss your question.
Every stove requires maintenance.
Don't use wet coal in any of them.
Take them apart for the Summer.
Oil the motors, clean the blower fins.
Clean the firebox.
Be kind to it.
Look at several manufacturers.
Can the manufacturer be directly contacted ?
Are parts available ? How much?
Simple to troubleshoot?
Simple to clean?
As a retired 37 year aerospace engineer that analyzes everything, it was no contest.
The Pocono.
The Tacoma of Stokers
Every stove requires maintenance.
Don't use wet coal in any of them.
Take them apart for the Summer.
Oil the motors, clean the blower fins.
Clean the firebox.
Be kind to it.
Look at several manufacturers.
Can the manufacturer be directly contacted ?
Are parts available ? How much?
Simple to troubleshoot?
Simple to clean?
As a retired 37 year aerospace engineer that analyzes everything, it was no contest.
The Pocono.
The Tacoma of Stokers
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- Location: Chester, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
but the Anthraking line is the KING of stokers. A breed apart. Peace.