Anybody Using Buck in Their Stove?

Probably be looking for a hand fired stove as back up for the basement in the future, we'll have extra flue once the oil burner goes.

We'll be burning buck in the Van Wert so ideally I'd need something with some narrow grates. I know the Franco Belges are suitable for this but I want something a little bigger that has parts easily available.

Hitzer maybe?

There was a thread from Doug a while back. He was burning buck in his Clayton but I didn't reread the thread to see if he was using it the Chubby.

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Not really looking for a big stove and it would have be nice looking, maybe something in the 60 to 80K BTU range. The power has gone off here a few times but it was fixed in a few hours, I want something I can fire up to keep a little heat in the house so the pipes don't freeze. Doesn't have to heat it to normal living conditions. I won't be using this all the time and not interested in getting larger coal for it, the grates have to be narrow enough for buck. There's two fireplaces here too so it's not a really big concern.

Another idea is I might see if I can find nice cooktop stove, I see them for sale around here a lot.

Yep, a nice old kitchen stove would be outstanding--function & looks I think mine was a Warm Morning????

A kitchen cook stove is aways very cool! Not like I'm biased or anything but they throw allot more heat than you think (its a big chunk of cast iron) and you can cook on it and bake in it too! The only thing is buck might be iffy? My Glenwood with triangular bar grates might leak buck. I feel like pea is pushing it for smallest size. I realize you might have meant a small cooktop like a laundry or camp stove etc.. At any rate I saw a very nice Quaker C model for sale down in Tiverton, RI. These are a very nice cooker and top quality. Same size as my Glenwood C too. It's set up for coal too. It's on craiglist for $1400 which is not a bad deal. here's the link if you're interested.
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yea, so much for objectivity good post my friend

freetown fred wrote:yea, so much for objectivity good post my friend

I'm familiar with the stoves, my aunt used to have one. If I remember correctly the grates should be close enough especially after you have a fire going.

As far as getting one there is lot of them in this area, some times you can pick them up for nothing.

Richard S. wrote:I'm familiar with the stoves, my aunt used to have one. If I remember correctly the grates should be close enough especially after you have a fire going.

As far as getting one there is lot of them in this area, some times you can pick them up for nothing.

You're probably right if you've already got a a fire going and some ash or something blocking for you.

Nice......if you could get one for little or nothing! Well worth it. They sell for bigger and bigger money these days. The Antique guys of course are pricing them up at the $2500 and up range. But even private sales I see are about half of that at best. Good Luck with it.

SteveZee wrote: Nice......if you could get one for little or nothing! Well worth it.

Supply and demand. Since the fuel was still readily available lots of people never got rid of them in this area. It's not a rare item around here.

Hi Richard. My question may be curious but can you tell me what is Buck?
Thanks, nortcan

Buck is a size of anthracite. 5/16 to 9/16 of an inch. It looks like this:

nortcan wrote:Hi Richard. My question may be curious but can you tell me what is Buck?
Thanks, nortcan

Short for buckwheat, as explained it's a size. It's between rice and pea. We use it in the Van Wert boiler, since I'll have 10 or 12 ton of it here for each season I might as well have a stove that can burn it.

We had a Franco Belge at one point in the old house my brother was using in his side of the basement in his workshop. Worked well with buck but it has some pretty small grates openings.

Thanks Markviii, Richard and Fred for the infos. Here we only get pea and nut sizes.

This would be used in a stoker, matter of fact most stokers use the smaller size rice.