How Long Burn Times With Bit Big Lump Coal?
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I have a hotblast 1557. I'm burning hand picked lump bituminous 4 inch to 10inch chucks, not fines. My firebox is rated for 70, prolly mound a little more than that. Just wondering how long burn times people can get outta BIt. I've heard people get 24 hrs on mild days from ANT.
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I've never burned it (nor can I in the AHS), but it seems to me that the volatility level would play a significant part in this.
It seems to me that anthracite (though it varies from supplier to supplier, mine to mine) is less variable than bituminous. Lots of variation from place to place and mine to mine for bit, and that may make it hard for one persons opinion of how it behaves to have relevance to another person (unless they are burning quite similar bit).
It seems to me that anthracite (though it varies from supplier to supplier, mine to mine) is less variable than bituminous. Lots of variation from place to place and mine to mine for bit, and that may make it hard for one persons opinion of how it behaves to have relevance to another person (unless they are burning quite similar bit).
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Plenty of guys on here burning BIT that can give you an educated answer. Be patient my friend For the record, when idled way down I can get 36 to 48 hrs easy with nut/stove anth.
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Ok I'm not looking for a sure anwser. It's just a curious question to what people out there is getting. And I get a very good bit coal from tunnel hill. Which there are others on this forum who get coal there
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I burn lumps up to basketball size in my Harman mark III. If there is a base of good coals I rake them to one side and drop a lump in. lasts all day.
Jared, where did you get your bit? I'm looking for a place to try something different.
Jared, where did you get your bit? I'm looking for a place to try something different.
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. I get it from Tunnel Hill Reclamation. It's in New Lexington Ohio. They raised there prices this year. It's $80 a ton hand picked or they'll load it. I hand pick cause I don't wanna pay for the fines. Plus I hose it all off real good before I bring it in so it's not dusty
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I have some basketball siZe pieces. When u burn them do you have to bust it apart after a while? Or how does it act. Curious I haven't burnt any of the big ones yet
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I was thinking about going there next weekend on a trip to Indiana. Kill 2 birds with one stone. Do they have lump size? Is that considered #2?
Do you know their number?
BTW how does it burn for you? Clinkers, Bridging?
Do you know their number?
BTW how does it burn for you? Clinkers, Bridging?
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I haven't got a chance to burn it a lot yet. Maybe 500 pounds. Burns really well so far. Coworkers of mine got me on to it. There is also people here who have used it. 740-343-0195. That's the number to the scale house. The lady will tell u every thing u need
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Sounds good. I will grab a load next week.Jared43758 wrote:I haven't got a chance to burn it a lot yet. Maybe 500 pounds. Burns really well so far. Coworkers of mine got me on to it. There is also people here who have used it. 740-343-0195. That's the number to the scale house. The lady will tell u every thing u need
Burn times vary wildly depending on stove size, temp, coal BTU content, hopper/no hopper...
Hand fired anthracite stoves with a hopper are hard to beat in the burn time department. I have found in my DS1500 circulator, that I will get similar burn times with bituminous as I would with anthracite without filling the hopper.
Hand fired anthracite stoves with a hopper are hard to beat in the burn time department. I have found in my DS1500 circulator, that I will get similar burn times with bituminous as I would with anthracite without filling the hopper.
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I see that you are getting it from oxford reclamation, depending on how you run the furnace and how big your heat load is I would expect that a full load of bit would last at least 1.5 to at most 2 times longer than hard wood.
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Haha. When I used wood I took the smoke curtain out and the front baffle plate and stack wood as high as I could in the stove. I could get 12-14 hrs of burn time on any temps above 15.
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You will want to make sure that your chimney is clean because if burned improperly coal quickly soot up a 6" chimney to about 2" in about 14 days.
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Yea burning wood like that is bad on cresote. I cleaned my chimney really well and I have a T" with cap for easy check and clean. I got a Mano in the mail to keep a eye on it, baro, and three carbon monoxide detectors. I installed a window on the front of my load door and it allows some overfire air for a air wipe to keep the glass clean. I also have a 1.5 ball valve on the back of my stove wear a forced air blower is suppose to go, which I'll use to let more secondary in. Hopefully I can keep the soot down but I think I'm prepared for it.