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Post by coal stoker » Fri. Feb. 03, 2017 5:15 am

Good to hear from yah VD

So that's what I have to look forward to in 5 more years LOL.
Glad to see that a little rip in your skid bag is all you have going wrong.
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Post by vermontday » Fri. Feb. 03, 2017 9:39 pm

Coal stoker,

I look forward every day to a nice coaled shower in a toasty house.

We have not had any issues. Although the boiler did call my cell phone a couple of weeks ago and tell me the ashes had forgotten to be taken out. :oops:

 
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Post by vermontday » Fri. Feb. 03, 2017 10:04 pm

I posted the following video on the Coal Stokers forum;

Turn your volume up to hear the radio and click on the below you tube link.

https://youtu.be/ZE3O4ila70M
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Post by dave28 » Sat. Feb. 04, 2017 7:46 am

Good song. Thanks for sharing.

 
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Post by vermontday » Sat. Feb. 04, 2017 7:51 am

My daughter goes around singing it!

 
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Post by vermontday » Sun. Sep. 30, 2018 9:01 am

I just fixed the Flickr link to the first page slide show and pictures with descriptions. For some reason it wasn't working after we loaded other pictures into Flickr from a trip we just did.

 
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Post by vermontday » Sun. Sep. 30, 2018 7:24 pm

I am still having trouble with the pictures, Flickr may require your cookies to be on. It worked after I did that. Oh well.....


 
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Post by vermontday » Sat. Nov. 09, 2019 3:21 pm

A number of people over the years have asked about the physical requirements for the skid system.

In order to use the skid system, you need a smooth, level concrete floor with enough room to load and unload the skid off the auger box. The attached sketch shows the minimum room on the auger side of the boiler you must have to use and turn the pallet jack.
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You will also need room for moving around and storing the skids. You want to build enough skids so that you can always have one skid still filled with coal from the last delivery to run off of to give time for the newly delivered coal skids to dry out if the coal came in wet (wet coal fines can plug the auger tube vent holes).

You also need a window or opening that the coal truck can chute the coal through. The window should be at least 57" high off the basement floor to get enough height to fill the super sack.

The cement blocks under the EFM boiler must not be over 1-7/8" high, to keep the auger low enough to go under the skid to the auger box. I used 3" x 6" x 1-7/8" blocks from Home Depot.

Most people probably will not have the physical requirements above to utilize a skid system.
However, those that do meet the requirements can have a simple, clean, easy system that will save time for many years to come.

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Boiler - skid layout.pdf

You need enough room to turn the pallet jack.

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Post by cjonesy80 » Mon. Nov. 02, 2020 3:50 pm

We have low cost equipment to help fill and empty bulk bags:
https://www.palamaticprocess.com/en-us/bulk-handl ... ischarging

 
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Post by vermontday » Fri. Nov. 27, 2020 8:23 pm

I have used bulk bag discharging equipment when I was designing equipment at work. Your equipment looks interesting.

The bulk bag system for the boiler at home had to be cheap and simple.

Coal truck chutes the coal into the bulk bags, steel plate skid gates are opened using a 2 x 2 lumber lever, or just bang them out with a pickmatic tool I have laying around in my cellar.

 
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Post by Holdencoal » Fri. Dec. 31, 2021 11:05 am

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Post by Rob R. » Fri. Dec. 31, 2021 1:18 pm

Holdencoal wrote:
Fri. Dec. 31, 2021 11:05 am
Are you selling?
It appears that the seller is using the pictures previously posted here.

 
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Post by Holdencoal » Fri. Dec. 31, 2021 3:06 pm

I know…… that’s why I was asking and brought it up here. It’s sad someone has to steal pictures of someone hard work and claim it as his own.

 
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Post by vermontday » Mon. Jan. 17, 2022 6:59 pm

I don't know who is using my picture. I have no intention of ever selling my coal boiler system.

It is sad that someone could buy that guys boiler (assuming he really has one), thinking it was in the condition shown in the picture.

Hopefully he is honest enough to tell people that it is not a picture of his boiler.

In the meantime, "Cindy" would call my cell phone if someone turned her off to steal her!

 
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Post by Hambden Bob » Sat. Sep. 24, 2022 3:15 am

Greetings,Gang! I thought it would be a sound choice to reawaken vermontday's most excellent thread on using "Supersack Technology" from long ago! The Man did the work,and was good enough to share it here! He deserves any and all accolades for his thoughtfulness and generosity. Swyman brought Supersack's up in a seperate topic thread,so I felt this would help out New Folks,as well as the Old Breed here! Enjoy,and don't forget to Thank vermontday....


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