Going to See a Piece of History !

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Wed. Dec. 14, 2011 9:54 pm

I was speaking with the preacher at my church tonight and he told me he has a very old coal stove in the basement that once heated the house and a coal boiler as well. He is going to show them to me this Sunday evening. I am really excited about going to see these because it is a very large home from the 19th century in an area that used to be the ritz area of the time. If it is something nice I am going to see if he wants to sell it to me. I'll post some photos and information as soon as I find out about it. I am just too excited to wait and say something!

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Wed. Dec. 14, 2011 10:00 pm

Outstanding Sj

Post by **coaledsweat** » Wed. Dec. 14, 2011 10:31 pm

Smokeyja wrote:I was speaking with the preacher at my church tonight and he told me he has a very old coal stove in the basement that once heated the house and a coal boiler as well. He is going to show them to me this Sunday evening. I am really excited about going to see these because it is a very large home from the 19th century in an area that used to be the ritz area of the time. If it is something nice I am going to see if he wants to sell it to me. I'll post some photos and information as soon as I find out about it. I am just too excited to wait and say something!

Don't get to excited, whatever it is probably weighs 16 tons!

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Wed. Dec. 14, 2011 10:37 pm

And was put in place and the building was constructed around it!

Berlin · Post by **Berlin** » Thu. Dec. 15, 2011 12:29 am

If you're really lucky it will have a nice underfeed stoker in it!

Post by **franco b** » Thu. Dec. 15, 2011 12:50 pm

I had a similar thing happen a few months ago. Was in a customers house (mid 1800s) when I noticed a closed off opening for a stove. Asked about it and was told the old stove was out in the barn and she wanted to get rid of it. With visions of base burners in my head I went to look at it. It was an old Franklin type from about 1900, Damn.

sterling40man · Post by **sterling40man** » Thu. Dec. 15, 2011 1:17 pm

coaledsweat wrote:Don't get to excited, whatever it is probably weighs 16 tons!

Hey, isn't that how you got your AA260?

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Thu. Dec. 15, 2011 2:11 pm

coaledsweat wrote:
Smokeyja wrote:I was speaking with the preacher at my church tonight and he told me he has a very old coal stove in the basement that once heated the house and a coal boiler as well. He is going to show them to me this Sunday evening. I am really excited about going to see these because it is a very large home from the 19th century in an area that used to be the ritz area of the time. If it is something nice I am going to see if he wants to sell it to me. I'll post some photos and information as soon as I find out about it. I am just too excited to wait and say something!
Don't get to excited, whatever it is probably weighs 16 tons!

I will find the means

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Thu. Dec. 15, 2011 2:12 pm

Nothing ventured, nothing gained

Vinmaker · Post by **Vinmaker** » Thu. Dec. 15, 2011 5:07 pm

That sounds like an awesome find. Good luck and take some great pictures for us. We all would love to see what you found.

echos67 · Post by **echos67** » Thu. Dec. 15, 2011 5:12 pm

We Definitely need pictures of stove *censored*

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Thu. Dec. 15, 2011 11:28 pm

I'll take lots of photos. I think this spring I'm going to go on a stove history hunt up the east coast with my trailer and truck and buy as much as I can fit on it. You can't have more than one woman but you can have more than one stove

Smokeyja · Post by **Smokeyja** » Mon. Dec. 19, 2011 9:42 am

Ok so the find was a bit disappointing. It was an old coal steam boiler converted to oil, at least thats what was told to me and it looked just like that, and it was used to run radiators. He actually ran this thing up until the 90's before it became too expensive. The stove to the right is still a coal water heater for the houses tap water. It seems that you would heat the water up prior to a bath and then the coal fire must have burned out shortly after because of the small fire pot. Cool history but I was hoping for something else. Oh well! I gave my preacher a lesson on lime mortar while I was down there. It seems he had some hack masons come and use Portland in a lime mortar foundation... Big no no !

SteveZee · Post by **SteveZee** » Mon. Dec. 19, 2011 10:56 am

Yep seen that too. People seem to think cement is mortar is cement, etc....

echos67 · Post by **echos67** » Mon. Dec. 19, 2011 6:37 pm

That little water heater is pretty cool, it may not be all that practical for me to use as it was intended but I cant help but try and think of other uses for it.

(Never mind I havent thought of any yet

)