What's Burning the Best in Your Coal Guns?

chevymatt · Post by **chevymatt** » Sat. Sep. 21, 2013 11:43 pm

Just curious what breaker/ company is working best in your coal gun and what size? I've tried Stockton pea and Hudson buck so far and looking for another that people are satisfied with. I know it's a lot to do with what's available and all sorts of factors so your personal pref is what I'm looking for. Thanks

Matt

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Sun. Sep. 22, 2013 1:20 pm

Harmony worked well for me (I would say the best), but only after I adjusted my ashing temperature clear down to 100 degrees and my hysteresis down to 5 degrees. Blaschak works well with 130 degrees on the ashing and 10 degrees on the hysteresis. A blend of Stockton and Blaschak ran well for me with the same settings as for Blaschak alone. I never tried the Stockton by itself. Those are the only coals I've tried so far.

How did the Stockton pea and Hudson buck work for you?

plumberman · Post by **plumberman** » Wed. Nov. 13, 2013 5:19 am

hey chevy matt , how did the hudson burn for you, next go around wnt to try them or direnso.

thanks

chevymatt · Post by **chevymatt** » Wed. Nov. 13, 2013 7:55 pm

I mixed the Hudson and Stockton together with so so results. The Hudson was buckwheat sized and would melt into a huge glob if there was too much of it and the Stockton had a huge amount of ash but it burnt. I would get clinkers the size of footballs with the combo. I'm burning harmony this year and loving it so far

dchartt · Post by **dchartt** » Tue. Nov. 26, 2013 6:48 pm

the black stuff! anyone else burning Tamaqua? Last year I was burning Reading with no complaints, seems to be more fines in this Tamaqua, other than that it seems to be ok, mine did not like buckwheat I know that for sure, I havent had any puff backs this year that I know of and the only thing I changed other than coal (which has more fines go figure) was my flue pipe coming off my boiler I made it at a 45 instead of 4 foot straight up to a 3 foot piece horizontal into my triple wall vertical stack

gizmo · Post by **gizmo** » Wed. Nov. 27, 2013 2:04 pm

Reading Pea,This is my 5th year,Could not
be happier.

NWBuilder · Post by **NWBuilder** » Wed. Nov. 27, 2013 3:03 pm

Kimmel Pea works pretty well for me.

mgrant · Post by **mgrant** » Sat. Dec. 21, 2013 10:01 am

I have been using coal from the Gail mine for the past 2 years and have had no problems.

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Sat. Dec. 21, 2013 10:13 am

mgrant wrote:I have been using coal from the Gail mine for the past 2 years and have had no problems.

Gail Mining coal intrigues me. What ashing settings does its pea work well with for your Coal Gun?

mgrant · Post by **mgrant** » Sat. Jan. 04, 2014 8:40 am

I have it set at 125