Wood - Coal Hybred Stoves

I have a Harman TLC 2000 and burn only coal in it. This is my 4th season with this stove and never have a problem with one match for the season.
My wife liked the looks of this one so we got this instead of the MK2 or MK3.
Last year I fired it up on Oct. 6 and didn't shut down till April 20th and only burned 3 ton.
The only thing I did to it last year was double the brick on both sides to make them more vertical and add a layer sideways around the top to be able to stack it higher toward the rear.
Works great for me. My house is all electric but I never use it for heat.The wife says its always to warm and is always after me to lower the stove.

I didn't want to be the first to speak out in regards to the remark made about the TLC-2000. I too have a TLC-2000, and had my first coal fire in it last week. I chose that stove because of the video I saw made by, and posted on here by Devil 505.( where did he go by the way?) He had burned coal for 30 years in various stoves, and said it was by far the best stove he had ever owned. I know I'm new at coal; but so far I think it's an excellent coal stove. Easy to start, easy to maintain, very large ash pan, and a long steady burn time. I can't comment on how well it burns wood, and don't plan on finding out. But it's designed to and good to fall back on if needed.
I was attracted to the design because it is well up off the floor, which I find very comfortable when tending it. And it has an excellent blower and jacket system. Oh well; I guess that's why there are so many stoves out there. What floats my boat, may sink anothers.

Body Hammer wrote:I didn't want to be the first to speak out in regards to the remark made about the TLC-2000. I too have a TLC-2000, and had my first coal fire in it last week. I chose that stove because of the video I saw made by, and posted on here by Devil 505.( where did he go by the way?) He had burned coal for 30 years in various stoves, and said it was by far the best stove he had ever owned. I know I'm new at coal; but so far I think it's an excellent coal stove. Easy to start, easy to maintain, very large ash pan, and a long steady burn time. I can't comment on how well it burns wood, and don't plan on finding out. But it's designed to and good to fall back on if needed.
I was attracted to the design because it is well up off the floor, which I find very comfortable when tending it. And it has an excellent blower and jacket system. Oh well; I guess that's why there are so many stoves out there. What floats my boat, may sink anothers.

Read the threads below he made a few modification to the stove it was his third stove in well 26 or 30 years depends on what post of his you read there are a few different thread from him on this stove here is one do a search on here you will find more about these stoves .

Harman TLC 2000 Glass Door Cracked

Harman TLC-2000 Questions, Comments, Ramblings

Loading the Harman TLC 2000

Devil 505.( where did he go by the way?)

Devil got banned…
He got a little too hot over in the political forum a while back…
Had lots of ‘incite’…
And he had good info on the TLC-2000 to boot!
I miss the old dog...

Rumor has it, he's on his way to D.C. to take up the latest CZAR positon. Wonder how his tax history looks.....

This is my second year burning coal and I have the TLC2000, had no problem burning wood or coal in it last year. I did notice the coal would not stay lit toward the second half of the season and the problem was due to a build up of ash at the top of the stove. When I'm burning coal I shake it and load every 10-12 hours and did not have a problem, burned 2.5 tons last year along with plenty of wood. It certainly cranked out alot of heat and and kept the house warm and drastically cut my oil bill. I do not have a barometric damper and considering putting one on this year I don't know if its needed?

Check this out. I add extra brick on the left and right sides to make them almost vertical. Then I added another row sideways on top so I could load more coal in it. Works great.

If it weren't for the friend "needing" a glass door I'd vouch for the Hitzer 82/55. They burn wood well, and are great value for the money.

The 82 does, however, eat wood as if 'twere a dragon. I burned @ 7-8 cords between Thanksgiving and March. Then two tons of anthracite before shutting down in early May.

I agree fully, BDHodson! I love my Hitzer 55...... and you love your 82.

I can understand a glass door for wood, more than for coal, since wood is entertaining with constant changes while coal is steady and never changes its looks! But, to each his own, and a living room I guess "needs" a glass door stove.

I also appreciate your tag line; working for anthracite but accepting beer as an alternate currancy....love it!

I wished I had a glass door for my 82, something about the blue flames...

I agree that the Hitzer 82 burns coal a lot better than it burns wood, I found the wood fire much harder to control.

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Oliver Power

We went through a lot more wood useing the old base burner stoves, which most all were hybreds. Back in the day, we didn't know they were hybreds. They were simply "our stoves".

I believe the old base burner stoves were some of the most efficient stoves ever built. Most were

cast iron and designed to get the most heat from the fuel. A stove of this type burns and reburns

the smoke and other by products of the combustion process extracting the most heat by passing

over a large heat exchange surface.These stoves were mostly made in the 1880's to the 1930's

maybe a little later when cast iron stoves were at their peak,then after WWII the downturn started

and other fuels were easier and sometimes cheaper and these stoves were forgotten.

A modern stove of this type with steel or cast iron could be built if demand was great enough.

BigBarney

I bought the nestor martin a few weeks ago ( A price that I could not pass up). It burns wood well, but it does dirty up the glass after two days of burning. Has not been super cold out yet, but the wood heats the house fairly well (2800 Sq. ft.). I am waiting on a few friends to get together for a coal run so I will comment on that later. There is a rectangular shaker grate, takes up about 80% of the bottom. Rick