captcaper wrote:I'm not a fan of Combo Wood/Coal burners but he should try pokeing bottom and top and see if the ash falls down anyway...Ash is like powder and will fall thru tight spaces as we know.
But this isn't addressing the jams.
I've been burning Pea and love the fact I can shake and shake and don't worry about jams in my Harmon. I am going to try burning it all winter as long as it gives me my heat and burn time.. Easy to Poke,Shake,Shovel,Pack..
Will the stove take Pea ? or mix nut and pea together. Got to have good draft for Pea though.
Good idea to let the fire go out and check for clinkers like mentioned above..lf so let the fire go out and clean it out and start fresh every week or so until you try different coal.
Not a Fan of combo Wood/Coal stove what do you think your Harman Mark series started out as the one your using right now All of these Sq box stoves started out as a wood stove as well as the early round stoves wood burning as been around a lot longer then coal burning .The first Harman stoves where The D/F and Hero Heath stoves both had over the fire ar knobs on the door so you could burn wood in them better Not Just the underfire air knobs or sliding vents on the ash door that was there for coal burning along with shaker grates for coal burning . The SF stove is a bigger version of the smaller DF series The Hero model was the base line of the Mark I series stove today . All Dane did was take the door air knobs off and put a window in the Mark series.
The Hero had a soild cast door with air knobs on it no window same size as the Mark I The DF model was a smaller version of the SF model air knobs on the loading door and the ash door the early model DF did not have a Glass window
soild door later models had a little window like the SF stove . DF still had the humpback design but did not have the heat exchanger tubs in the front like the SF they had air vent under the front lip on the top of stove where the heated air came out like on the Mark series do. The Hero was the same design as the mark I series flat top .
The Gibraltar stoves a coal burning stove only Read the manual below bottom of cover page as well as bottom of second page. But you can burn wood in them but not as well as a stove with overfire air vents / knobs They do not have overfire air knobs or vents. Extremely heavy shaker grates ash door air vents for underfire air for coal burning removable coal banking bar inside front adjustable baffel plate double wall construction. On The MCC.W/Fan LCC.Natural Convection or fan SCC.W/fan DDS. Radiant & Natural Converction or Fan DDI insert. W/Fan CFI insert W/fan . Model Stoker LR.W/fan The CFS. SCR. Radiant Stoves are single wall constrction. Bottom line they are a coal burning stove first Wood burner stove second The first early model Gibraltar stoves started out as wood burning stove Just like all Box stoves designs
then where converted or adapted to burn coal.
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Have Fun Keep it stoke stay warm .
