Anyone else holding off on burning due to price?

 
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Post by Rob R. » Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 7:11 am

I caved in last evening and fired the boiler up. It ran for nearly 2 hours to get this place heated up to 70. The house feels totally different this morning.


 
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Post by Sylvesterd101 » Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 7:45 am

Rob R. wrote:
Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 7:11 am
I caved in last evening and fired the boiler up. It ran for nearly 2 hours to get this place heated up to 70. The house feels totally different this morning.
i hear ya, i had to fire mine up, it was too cold for me and my 5 year old lol

 
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Post by k-2 » Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 8:59 am

Iv been running for a month. I Stop putting up with a cold house when i got off of heating oil.No more.

 
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Post by Sylvesterd101 » Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 9:21 am

k-2 wrote:
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Iv been running for a month. I Stop putting up with a cold house when i got off of heating oil.No more.
i hear ya man, i just try to be fiscally responsible haha :lol:

 
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Post by Rob R. » Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 9:26 am

k-2 wrote:
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Iv been running for a month. I Stop putting up with a cold house when i got off of heating oil.No more.
You heat your house with a coffee cup of coal per day, no reason to wait. :lol:

 
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Post by k-2 » Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 10:59 am

Rob R. wrote:
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You heat your house with a coffee cup of coal per day, no reason to wait. :lol:
The other day the sun porch was up to 107 .I forgot to open the door in the morning to let the heat in the house, l almost killed the lime trees. So yea on sunny days i probably can get away with a coffee cup of coal. Good thing cuz im goin thru a half ton of junk coal right now just to get rid of it.

 
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Post by k-2 » Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 11:31 am

Sylvesterd101 wrote:
Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 9:21 am
i hear ya man, i just try to be fiscally responsible haha :lol:
I could be more fiscally responsible and just run the wood stove but a little too busy/lazy this yr. Some of my wood is getting expired i have it so long. ;). I do run one at a house im rehabbing though. Every day.


 
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Post by Sylvesterd101 » Mon. Oct. 31, 2022 12:43 pm

haha i got ya i got ya

 
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Post by k-2 » Sat. Nov. 05, 2022 8:12 pm

Had to shut er down for a few days,too dang hot. With temps 20 deg above normal 70s day 50s night. Will be going right from the 60s to the 40s next week.

 
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Post by Sylvesterd101 » Sat. Nov. 05, 2022 8:44 pm

k-2 wrote:
Sat. Nov. 05, 2022 8:12 pm
Had to shut er down for a few days,too dang hot. With temps 20 deg above normal 70s day 50s night. Will be going right from the 60s to the 40s next week.
Yea I've kept everything shutdown. Abnormal Temps are okay with high prices

 
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Post by Dreamcatcher » Sun. Nov. 06, 2022 6:41 am

Had to shut my coal stove down to hot looks like next week the cold temp are back just looking at the weather Maybe starting back up Tuesday

 
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Post by Sylvesterd101 » Sun. Nov. 06, 2022 7:41 am

yea we will see thats for sure. i cant remember the last time it was 70+ degrees in november haha

 
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Post by k-2 » Sun. Nov. 06, 2022 1:36 pm

Sylvesterd101 wrote:
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yea we will see thats for sure. i cant remember the last time it was 70+ degrees in november haha
Were forecasting 74 today,the all time high is 75 and that would be in the last 100 yrs or so.

 
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Post by oliver power » Mon. Nov. 07, 2022 5:50 pm

I did my yearly maintenance on the Kaa-2 2 or 3 weeks ago, and fired it up. it will run all winter now.

In the shop, I have not even put the stove pipe back on yet. Have some coal left from last year. I plan on burning coal. Also have standing dead ash trees behind the shop if needed. One reason I favored the 254 Hitzer is the capability of burning multiple fuels. PS: Make sure you get out to vote tomorrow.

 
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Post by waytomany?s » Mon. Nov. 07, 2022 9:18 pm

Tonight is the night. I got a small wood fire going before dinner in the mark II. About 7:30 I threw 5-6 small coal shovels in. At 7:35 I opened spinner to about 2.5 turns open and went back to reading. At 8 I gave it another 4 bigger scoops. At 8:45 the side over the wood coals was very happy so I put 4 more scoops on the other side to heat up. I figure around 9:40 I can top it off and be done til morning.


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