Kewanee
Posted: Thu. May. 17, 2018 1:25 pm
Hello - new to the forums, but I've been a lurker for a while. With my 3 kids moving off to college by next fall, there's going to be a labor shortage to keep the Wood Gun boiler fired during the Montana winter. I've been looking at options for stoker boiler and bins for semi truck load storage (about 28 ton's I'm told), since the Decker / Sheridan supplies are a couple of hundred miles away (sub-bituminous FWIW).
At any rate, things got serious last night, so I decided it was time to post. A friend of a friend offered to give me this Kewanee boiler with the stoker and 3T of coal, for the cost of disconnecting the plumbing and removing it all from the cellar. He tells me that he remembers that it does "disassemble" into 4 or 5 pieces.
Here are a couple of photos that I grabbed (wasn't thinking about the forum when I took them, and the one I took of the label didn't turn out with a darn - I plan to go back and get a better shot of that in the near future) *** Edit - label photo added to the album
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VKjTszhghMTyxOZJ3
So, the price is right, probably the value of the stoker alone would be worth the couple hundred bucks it would cost to bring in professional plumbers to disconnect and rework his system (I do my own plumbing on my own system out in the country, but not on this house in town). Given the size of his house, compared to mine, I'm guessing it is sized about right, and the fact that he burned the local coal for years with it makes me think it will handle the local fuel. But, the question I have is this boiler a good solution to start out with given the effort there may be to remove it?
Thanks! Pat
At any rate, things got serious last night, so I decided it was time to post. A friend of a friend offered to give me this Kewanee boiler with the stoker and 3T of coal, for the cost of disconnecting the plumbing and removing it all from the cellar. He tells me that he remembers that it does "disassemble" into 4 or 5 pieces.
Here are a couple of photos that I grabbed (wasn't thinking about the forum when I took them, and the one I took of the label didn't turn out with a darn - I plan to go back and get a better shot of that in the near future) *** Edit - label photo added to the album
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VKjTszhghMTyxOZJ3
So, the price is right, probably the value of the stoker alone would be worth the couple hundred bucks it would cost to bring in professional plumbers to disconnect and rework his system (I do my own plumbing on my own system out in the country, but not on this house in town). Given the size of his house, compared to mine, I'm guessing it is sized about right, and the fact that he burned the local coal for years with it makes me think it will handle the local fuel. But, the question I have is this boiler a good solution to start out with given the effort there may be to remove it?
Thanks! Pat