First Fire of the Season in the Wehrle
- Sunny Boy
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Better yet, put a couple of rocking chairs and a coffee table piled up with parts and equipment catalogs !
That stove might just help raise your sales.
Paul
That stove might just help raise your sales.
Paul
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WOW JJ, my favorite stove... one day ...
- Canaan coal man
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I couldn't think of a more relaxing way to spend a snowy winters day than sitting around one of these stoves with a rocking chair and a nice big cigar. However the cigar burn time is far less than the stove.......Sunny Boy wrote:Better yet, put a couple of rocking chairs and a coffee table piled up with parts and equipment catalogs !
That stove might just help raise your sales.
Paul
- wsherrick
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Just stunning. After the painstaking, detailed work you did on this stove is now paying off. No doubt this is a showstopper.
Also a slight jab at those who horde and collect these stoves by the dozens and never put a fire in the first one.
These things were made to do what this one is doing; heat any desired space in the most efficient manner possible.
Also a slight jab at those who horde and collect these stoves by the dozens and never put a fire in the first one.
These things were made to do what this one is doing; heat any desired space in the most efficient manner possible.
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Thanks William! I agree with your comment about the hoarders. I know a guy who has three very large metal buildings completely packed with Allis-Chalmers model G tractors and every piece of equipment ever made for them. There are way over 50 of the tractors and who knows how many types of equipment. I've seen them and it makes me kind of mad because I know a lot of people who could really use one of the tractors in their gardens, but every time one comes up for sale, it doesn't matter what the price is, that guy buys it and puts it away. He does nothing else with them.wsherrick wrote:Just stunning. After the painstaking, detailed work you did on this stove is now paying off. No doubt this is a showstopper.
Also a slight jab at those who horde and collect these stoves by the dozens and never put a fire in the first one.
These things were made to do what this one is doing; heat any desired space in the most efficient manner possible.
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DO NOT introduce him to coaljubileejerry wrote:Thanks William! I agree with your comment about the hoarders. I know a guy who has three very large metal buildings completely packed with Allis-Chalmers model G tractors and every piece of equipment ever made for them. There are way over 50 of the tractors and who knows how many types of equipment. I've seen them and it makes me kind of mad because I know a lot of people who could really use one of the tractors in their gardens, but every time one comes up for sale, it doesn't matter what the price is, that guy buys it and puts it away. He does nothing else with them.wsherrick wrote:Just stunning. After the painstaking, detailed work you did on this stove is now paying off. No doubt this is a showstopper.
Also a slight jab at those who horde and collect these stoves by the dozens and never put a fire in the first one.
These things were made to do what this one is doing; heat any desired space in the most efficient manner possible.
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- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
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Makes me mad too. I know of people who collect coal stoves that could keep others warm and yet won't part with them .... OH, WAM here. I did have a 190 that I loved but would not get serviced so it had to go. I never knew what you could usefully do with a G.it doesn't matter what the price is, that guy buys it and puts it away. He does nothing else with them.
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What an unbelievable stove. As many as I have . Don't have anything as pretty as that. Beautiful !!
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I don't know, I think yours is pretty nice, too. Nickle is expensive to do, and that's all yours is lacking, but the nickle doesn't make it work any better, and as they say, chrome won't get you home.Merc300d wrote:Close but not not really !!!
Since I've only been burning this coal for one year now, I feel like a real novice and I know I have a lot to learn, so I do some experimenting to see what happens if I change something. The last time I bought coal at the TSC store was the end of the season and the manager threw in a couple of bags of rice they'd opened just to show people what it looked like. Today I had an idea. My Wehrle says right on the lid, "USE CHESTNUT COAL". I'm not one who always follows directions so I wondered what would happen if I put rice in it. I knew if I just poured it in the magazine a lot of it would just go right through the grates, so I burned enough nut this morning to make a nice bed of coals, then filled the scuttle about to 1/3 with the rice and the rest with nut. When I poured it in, the nut went in first and made another layer of coal, then the rice went in and made a nice cap on top of the nut. None of it fell through and before long I had about the prettiest fire I've ever had in the stove. It burned all afternoon and it's 7:30 pm here now, and the stuff was still going strong. Here are some more fire pictures for you:
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Jerry, my brother burned a ton of buckwheat size anthracite in his shop stove and I was surprised at how well it burned. He did the same thing as you and switched to the smaller coal once the fire was established. The guys in the shop actually commented on how easy it was to scoop the smaller coal, and how easy it was to shake down. They burned it for a few weeks until it was gone, and I don't remember any issues with it.
Beautiful pictures by the way. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful pictures by the way. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow that's neat, you can probably get away with mixing nut and rice or layering it. I would think that you'll be able to idle it down to nearly no heat output and not lose the fire during warm spells with some rice mixed in.