How's Everyone Coming With Getting Ready for Burn Season.
- freetown fred
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- Location: Freetown,NY 13803
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut
Yep, ya can really notice the change when they hook up with them thar girly stoves--SMITTY, a girly guy---I can't stand it--
- just peter
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- Joined: Sun. Nov. 20, 2011 3:22 pm
- Location: North Holland, The Netherlands.
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Weso 225 C3, Susler Altan, Wasseralfingen 440, Susler Altan
- Coal Size/Type: bituminous coal,
@ firebug, Botrop is not too far for me, according Google maps it's only 235 Km.
Gives a nice ride.
Btw I live in Hoorn, wich is about 30 Km from the west coast.
Thank you for the link. I take a look to it.
This afternoon I have set up the weso stove, it is huge in my small living room.
Of course I had to make a test drive, and fired it up.
Today it was going a lot better then last weeks testdrives, I am quiet optimistic about the stove .
I will post some pictures on my thread.
Peter.
Gives a nice ride.
Btw I live in Hoorn, wich is about 30 Km from the west coast.
Thank you for the link. I take a look to it.
This afternoon I have set up the weso stove, it is huge in my small living room.
Of course I had to make a test drive, and fired it up.
Today it was going a lot better then last weeks testdrives, I am quiet optimistic about the stove .
I will post some pictures on my thread.
Peter.
Just to warn ya on that saving coal thing....I thought the same thing.SMITTY wrote:Thanks. Yeah, that's what I'm hopin' ...
Also hoping I save some coal too - the 5 tons per season with the hand-fired was getting to be a bit much on the old wallet. Either way, I certainly won't miss SHAKING and LOADING!
But the stoker is so easy to just leave in idle mode and let it run continuously that I burn at least as much coal as when I used the Mark III. With the hand fed I would let it go out if we had a couple day warm spell or I would burn wood in it at night and in the morning to take the chill off during shoulder months.
I figure it is better for the stove long term to keep it going and up to temp to keep the rust away (rationalization for my laziness on relighting!! ).
- wilder11354
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- Location: Montrose, Pa.
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Harman SF260 Boiler
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: nut or pea, anthracite
- Other Heating: crown oil boiler, backup.if needed
Got the coal... today is start of rewiring. need to get a DIN rail to mount slave stage relay, and looking for MC stranded wire, lot easier to do connections in circulators, and such.
Lightning wrote:Sounds you better get busy then partnerwilder11354 wrote:not ready, no coal, no rewiring electrical controls for dual boiler setup
- tcalo
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- Location: Long Island, New York
- Baseburners & Antiques: Crawford 40
- Coal Size/Type: Nut/stove anthracite
Stove is moved into her new spot. Chimney is finished. Did a test burn the other morning with a nice wood fire. Got my 4 ton bagged delivery today. Bummer, couldn't tuck it in the corner of my garage with the bobcat. Had the pallets dropped in my driveway. Stacked 2 tons in the garage today, should finish up tomorrow. Guess you could say we are ready!
- 2001Sierra
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- Location: Wynantskill NY, 10 miles from Albany
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Keystoker 90 Chimney vent
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
- Other Heating: Buderus Oil Boiler 3115-34
anthony7812 wrote: Smitty your already turning into a lady! The loading and shaking is the best part. Watchen the coal get glowin red and then the nice cracklin sound of fresh coal dumped on.
Cracklin is replaced by crunching when the stoker kicks in, and the kids talk about the shaking like it was a hundred years ago and how the shaking noise was like nails on a chalk board to them Ah the old days 4 years ago I really do miss the Buderus hand, and my 91 Sonoma, but the Keystoker 90 and the 2001 Sierra are also someday going to remembered as well. Also speaking of turning into a lady I do where Crocs, you know all the swamp people do on TV, I get alot of grief about those at work as well, no I do not wear them to work. I better stop before I get beat up on the forum.
- SMITTY
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- Coal Size/Type: Rice / Blaschak anthracite
- Other Heating: Oil fired Burnham boiler
I've earned enough stripes shaking rocks & jamming the damn grates open - just call me SALLY Smitty!
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