Coal Grate for Fireplace?

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Post by LDPosse » Thu. Jan. 31, 2013 8:02 pm

My sister recently bought a house and it had this grate in the fireplace.

I saw an older post here on the forum with a similar looking grate that was used for burning bituminous coal. This thing looks pretty similar. The house is in the city, I figured a nice roaring fire with some of Valier's finest would make great conversation with the neighbors! :D

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Post by bksaun » Thu. Jan. 31, 2013 8:21 pm

That is very simlar to the one I used and may be in the post. I burned very small Bit pea stoker in it and it worked very well, just make absolutely sure your flu is open before you start the fire,. its best to start a small wood fire and add a little coal at a time. Mine would hold a fire over night.

 
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Post by LDPosse » Thu. Jan. 31, 2013 9:15 pm

bksaun wrote:Mine would hold a fire over night.
Did you get noticeably more heat from the coal fire, than from a wood fire in the same fireplace?

 
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Post by bksaun » Thu. Jan. 31, 2013 9:22 pm

No, it mostly goes up the chimney, the radient heat is all you get, maybe a little more than wood when the volitiles burned off and it was glowing real good. I liked it. The grate was loaned to me by a neighbor, now she uses it as a flower pot, what a waste! :(


 
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Post by Short Bus » Fri. Feb. 01, 2013 12:25 am

Certainly plenty of overfire air. :)

 
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Post by Joeski » Fri. Feb. 01, 2013 12:46 am

Is one of these out their for hard coal?

 
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Post by Short Bus » Fri. Feb. 01, 2013 1:27 am

I'll bet one of those in a Franklin stove would put out some heat.

 
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Post by carlherrnstein » Fri. Feb. 01, 2013 10:08 am

The coal fireplaces iv seen were built like a stove with a door like peice and a grate of some sort. I wouldnt want to burn coal in the open like that in my house.


 
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Post by Berlin » Fri. Feb. 01, 2013 10:44 am

I know lots of people that use bit coal in fireplaces, and I've built rumfords specifically to burn bit coal. It's excellent for a fireplace and better than wood on many different levels.

Most of those covers (but not all) were summer covers - NOT meant to be left on the fp when it was in use.

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bit lump coal burning in traditional (not rumford) fireplace - burning on standard fireplace grate


 
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Post by LDPosse » Fri. Feb. 01, 2013 9:10 pm

Can a low vol bit be burned in one of these? Or are these grates best suited to high vol coals?

 
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Post by Berlin » Sat. Feb. 02, 2013 8:47 am

Any free-burning bituminous lump coal will work fine, high vol is better for viewing the fire. A coking coal will not work; it fuses together and goes out as one big melted lump of coke.

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