Need help with acorn stove
- Sunny Boy
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Well they used to get cold weather in central Cali.
We had our canteens freeze at night inside out tents while on training maneuvers, up in the hills at Fort Ord, Monterey - January of 72.
Paul
- Sunny Boy
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- McGiever
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Temps are relevant, I remember being at Disney World, Orlando in late December some years back in a tee shirt and shorts one evening and seen the Native Floridians there in parkas with fur around their faces from the hood being drawn up tight.
- Sunny Boy
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A range makes more sense for Kacey's weather. Not only warmth, it can do the cooking, baking, and so much more than just a heating stove. And with the multiple damper setup, and choices of long or short flue pathways of a range, the heat output can be easily turned down in warmer weather, yet it responds quickly when more heat is needed for cooking.
I love my #6 base heater, but if I had to have just one coal stove it would be a range.
Paul
I love my #6 base heater, but if I had to have just one coal stove it would be a range.
Paul
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I was stationed there in 67 and oh yeah the nights were cold.
PS That was 1967 not 1867.
Paulie
Ha! I just saw all these California temperature comments and jokes. Laugh it up, you guys. But it gets in the low 30's to 40's in the winter at night here. And that's too cold for a quonset hut with crap for insulation for me. Brrrrr. And believe it or not we came home for a visit to California in December from where we lived in Wyoming for a couple years, it felt colder when we got here at 4 in the morning than when we left Wyoming 22 hours prior. It's a different cold here. It's a wet cold so if it's 50 degrees but foggy and breezy it can feel like 30 degrees in Wyoming. Anyhoo, I got my coal delivered and tried to light it but I couldn't get it going. How the heck do you light this stuff? Should I start with some wood pieces and add coal??
- Sunny Boy
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Yeah, it's like that for me when I moved here from Long Island. With the damp air 35F there, it feels like 5F here.
Coal has about double the kindling point of wood. So you need a really good, hot wood fire, or BBQ charcoal fire, going before you add coal.
Then start adding thin layers of coal spread on top. And don't be in a rush to fill the stove. You need to leave some embers exposed with each layer to ignite the high volume of volatile gases that each fresh layers of coal will produce as it starts burning. If not you could get a "puff back" when you next open the loading door,... or worse yet, a gas explosion that could damage the stove.
You can add the next layer when the coal stops snapping and popping and you see flames coming up through that last layer.
Takes me about 30 minutes building up layers to fill the 6-7 inch deep firebed of my range. About an hour for my parlor stove, with it's twice as deep firebed.
Paul
Coal has about double the kindling point of wood. So you need a really good, hot wood fire, or BBQ charcoal fire, going before you add coal.
Then start adding thin layers of coal spread on top. And don't be in a rush to fill the stove. You need to leave some embers exposed with each layer to ignite the high volume of volatile gases that each fresh layers of coal will produce as it starts burning. If not you could get a "puff back" when you next open the loading door,... or worse yet, a gas explosion that could damage the stove.
You can add the next layer when the coal stops snapping and popping and you see flames coming up through that last layer.
Takes me about 30 minutes building up layers to fill the 6-7 inch deep firebed of my range. About an hour for my parlor stove, with it's twice as deep firebed.
Paul
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K, get some match-light barbeque briquetts--don't screw around with all that silly stuff. Get the coals good & red with some flames & SLOWLY start putting your coal in. Basically--- what Paul said!