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Post by corey » Thu. Oct. 27, 2016 12:36 pm

Hello.

Added 1.25 ton to my coal pile this week. Had some left over.

If the weather forecast holds I'll fire the stove up end of next week.


 
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Post by corey » Thu. Oct. 27, 2016 12:41 pm

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Post by lsayre » Thu. Oct. 27, 2016 12:48 pm

How much do you burn in a typical year?

 
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Post by corey » Thu. Oct. 27, 2016 12:53 pm

lsayre wrote:How much do you burn in a typical year?
Not determined that yet. Lot of fines from very first load couple years ago but I'm learning how to burn those also.

 
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Post by corey » Tue. Nov. 01, 2016 11:41 am

Little more info about this coal. It's mined out of the Elkhorn KY seam.

 
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Post by corey » Sat. Nov. 05, 2016 9:20 am

I fired it this morning put 2 red oak splits in. Got those going added 6 baseball size lumps down middle took right lot of brown smoke coming out the chimney.

 
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Post by corey » Sun. Nov. 06, 2016 10:33 am

I have a question been searching for answer.

Does feeding small amount of coal waste more then say30 or fourth pounds. I'm around all day to tend it.

Any advantage to doing it this way??


 
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Post by CoalisCoolxWarm » Sun. Nov. 06, 2016 11:52 am

corey wrote:Does feeding small amount of coal waste more then say30 or fourth pounds. I'm around all day to tend it.

Any advantage to doing it this way??
Every time you open your stove and put in fuel, it drops in temp. Smaller amounts drop less, but then once it finally gets up to (efficient) temps to burn the gases off the coal to get real heat without smoke, it's time to reload.

If you can load coal on alternating sides with a good amount that doesn't smother, doesn't take a long time to heat up, but lasts a good amount of time, you'll be happy. A smokeless fire that hums away throws lots of comfortable and reliable heat, without over firing.

Others can likely give you more details, but that should get you started ;)

 
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Post by warminmn » Sun. Nov. 06, 2016 12:04 pm

bit I have burned was real small plus a lot of fines. I bought the cheapest lunch bags I could find and filled them and threw the bags in that way to avoid smoke coming out the door when loading fines. It takes several seconds for the bags to catch fire, time enough to close the door. Your results may vary.

 
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Post by corey » Sun. Nov. 06, 2016 6:19 pm

Thanks for the tips guys.

The side banking I've heard just not tried it. Usually once I have a good coal bed I put fines over top (leaving some hot coals exposed).

 
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Post by corey » Mon. Nov. 07, 2016 10:22 pm

When dragging all the coke to one side and fresh coal on other would the fire spread as it burns or would I need to push coal over as it burns??

 
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Post by CoalisCoolxWarm » Mon. Nov. 07, 2016 11:56 pm

You don't have to drag or move anything (stoke it maybe is okay), just pile the new stuff on top. The idea is to leave enough coal exposed and burning hot to allow the new stuff to light.

Yes, the coal will burn and creep up the new pile.

 
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Post by corey » Tue. Nov. 08, 2016 8:32 am

CoalisCoolxWarm wrote:You don't have to drag or move anything (stoke it maybe is okay), just pile the new stuff on top. The idea is to leave enough coal exposed and burning hot to allow the new stuff to light.

Yes, the coal will burn and creep up the new pile.
Gotcha thanks.

 
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Post by corey » Tue. Nov. 22, 2016 1:40 pm

Well I'm learning to control heat now. Loaded the stove up last night got burning closed primary air left secondary air a sliver open. Woke this morning rather cold house. But stove was idling along at 150. Busted the mass up away it went still burning the same load of coal.

This sound ok?

 
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Post by corey » Tue. Nov. 22, 2016 7:07 pm

Today pulled at my probe from the flue it was coated in a brown runny liquid. I thought coal did not make creosote? I cleaned it stuck it back in then checked it a while later. The brown liquid was back on it.
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