Doing the "Eastern Kentucky Bit Shuffle" in Ohio !
- wsherrick
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Not very well. If your stove has some provision for secondary air then it might work okay.Paisan wrote:Does anyone know if I can burn eastern Kentucky coal in my DS? Will Kentucky coal burn in a stove that was made for anthracite?
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paisan you can but you would change the door and take the hopper out,i have the 1600 and burnt eastern kentucky coal all last winter with know trouble. I just got a ton of WV coal, I just burnt the first hand load of it had a few clickers something I hardly ever had with eastern kentucky what I did have the grates crunched up.
- Paisan
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I can take the hopper out, but what change would I need to make to the door?doc wrote:paisan you can but you would change the door and take the hopper out,i have the 1600 and burnt eastern kentucky coal all last winter with know trouble. I just got a ton of WV coal, I just burnt the first hand load of it had a few clickers something I hardly ever had with eastern kentucky what I did have the grates crunched up.