Bit chimney smoke

[wnycoalier]

Had someone ask about the smoke from the chimney. This is about normal good for me. Heavy bank of now essentially coke dragged to the side fresh applied to the nearly empty side after 20 mins. Now when first applied it's like the dingbat truck guys rolling coal. It could be applied slower and more air for better combustion. One guy just mixes 50/50 with anthracite.

I have a hole cut into the side of my hitzer for over fire air intake

[gardener]

Wow! Thats a lot less smoke than I imagined.
Think I may try burning some bituminous coal in the future.
Thanks for sharing that.

[fig]

Not bad. Usually after the volatiles burn of there's no smoke. Mine has very heavy smoke while the volitiles are burning then nothing but the smell. Probably varies with different coal from different areas.

[gardener]

Not bad. Usually after the volatiles burn of there's no smoke. Mine has very heavy smoke while the volitiles are burning then nothing but the smell. Probably varies with different coal from different areas.

I would like to see a picture of that if you are inclined to post one.
Is that for 20 or 30 minutes after reloading?

[fig]

Burning wood now. I used to burn in a warm morning stove. Plenty of pics in my previous posts. I don't recall if I ever took pics of the stack.
I basically quit burning bit because anthracite was only slightly more at the time and it was so much easier. Also the place I get it from sells to power companies and the size is very small almost like stoker coal. I did just buy a stoker a few days ago but it needs some work so I don't know if I'll get it going this winter. Time will tell.

Yeh it would clear up after about 20 to 30 minutes. Very heavy smoke before that point though. The warm morning has flues in the fire brick and once they light off they burn the smoke. I'm sure I posted pics of the flues burning.

It also acts like a hopper. So there is that difference too. If your banking coal it's probably always going to smoke. You could try adding secondary air tube's to your stove. If you get it right once they light off they'll burn the smoke.

Found a pic of the flues...

[warminmn]

I filled half a section of land (320 acres) with heavy smoke once on one of those heavy moisture somewhat calm days. The land is 10-20 feet below me and the smoke just sat there. I just stood there and laughed. No houses, who cares. That was from some stoker sized bit I burned for a bit (pun intended) so was smothered some. Somewhere on my pute with over 10,000 files I have pics and a quick video of my chimney but not of the land I mentioned. I looked once already for it.

Lignite smokes some at first but is lighter as it goes on. It always smells though.

[BigBarney]

Or you can use a stove based on the "The Morning Glory" where it produces little smoke...

https://ia601401.us.archive.org/34/items/morningg ... 00litt.pdf

This is similar to a boiler I have for sale... Bottom combustion opposite of regular devices...

Fires go down instead of up...Runs the combustible gases through the hottest flame...

With extra secondary air to finish all that can be burned...With a pure blue flame just like Nat Gas...

These will burn wood,coal (all kinds),coke,or any mix of solid fuels....These burn the gases not the solids...

BigBarney

[mpmann]

Not bad. Usually after the volatiles burn of there's no smoke. Mine has very heavy smoke while the volitiles are burning then nothing but the smell. Probably varies with different coal from different areas.

I have the same issue, very heavy smoke when loading, of course. Not a problem until it back drafts then ughhh, cleaning the whole house. I’m using a Hitzer 55, usually with anthracite because I work 12 hr shifts. When I’m off on my 3 or 4 or 6 day stretches I use bit coal. Going from one to the other isn’t a big deal but in my furnace with the flu I have (about 20 foot in a masonry chimney lined with steel) it smokes heavy for 20 mins or so while the volatiles burn off or escape. What I found was, for my setup, leaving the ash door open for the first ten minutes usually alleviates any back shoot and then I close it not completely but nearly. I pin in that way so it doesn’t inadvertently open more. Also, after an hour I go poke it or flip it if it got together that much. It’s a bit more work and needs fed more often of course but the heat is great. I get coal with no fines and the pieces are nut size to softball size. The hard coal, on the other hand, is flawless. It’s just $400/ ton (give or take) versus $120 a ton for the bituminous.

[fig]

I haven't bought any bit here lately so I don't know what it is now. I think it was around $115 a ton in 2019. I still have about a ton laying under a tarp I've been burning in a mountain Man stoker I'm working the kinks out of. I'm going to try and get this thing lined out before I get another load.
Still trying to figure it out. I've never had any experience with a stoker so slowly learning. This forum isn't too active when it comes to these things anymore.

[coaledsweat]

You could install one of these maybe?

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/catalog/heating ... te=1330713