New Guy With a Couple of Questions.

Tee fire · Post by **Tee fire** » Sun. Feb. 09, 2014 7:47 pm

Hambden Bob wrote:Fortunately,Chloe is not a Kardashian,nor a Dummy ! T-Fire,Welcome to the Forum! You're No Dummy,Either ! I think you've made a Wise Choice. Glad You've stopped Your Lurkery and have come on Board. Wait till Smitty's Cat see's Chloe !

O No, Chloe is no cheep date.

Hambden Bob · Post by **Hambden Bob** » Sun. Feb. 09, 2014 7:52 pm

Neither is Smitty !!

Tee fire · Post by **Tee fire** » Mon. Feb. 10, 2014 6:09 pm

Hey group, I found a place to look at a pioneer stove in Shippenville pa. I am going to look at it tomorrow. I have looked at a lot of stoker stoves but this is my first leisure line stove. I just looked down my chimney and it looks like the day I put it up. nice and clean . I had a wood stove for about 15 years and it worked Great. My chimney is about 17 feet high, But my pipe connection is up about 6 feet high that lives me about 11 feet to the top . Is that tall enough for the proper draft? Like I said the wood stove worked great using this chimney. I want to be sure I have the proper draft. IF needed I could add to the top .from the top of the new coal stove to my chimney thimble I will only need about 30 in's of pipe. What do you all Think? Thanks for all you kind people for all your help. Tony.

Post by **Lightning** » Mon. Feb. 10, 2014 6:18 pm

I am sooooo envious!!! If I had a spot like that it would host a gorgeous antique hand fed stove.. Wow! And the kitty would find a nice place right out in front to soak up the radiant heat..

Welcome partner, stick around, we have lotsa intriguing discussions around here

titleist1 · Post by **titleist1** » Mon. Feb. 10, 2014 6:19 pm

I would try it as is and add to the height later if necessary.

I would have a manometer connected to the flue pipe so the draft would be measured and you would know for sure how it was performing.

Tee fire · Post by **Tee fire** » Mon. Feb. 10, 2014 6:43 pm

titleist1 wrote:I would try it as is and add to the height later if necessary.

I would have a manometer connected to the flue pipe so the draft would be measured and you would know for sure how it was performing.

Yes I will have a manometer connected. I like to do thing wright the first time. Just don't ask my wife.

Tee fire · Post by **Tee fire** » Mon. Feb. 10, 2014 6:46 pm

Lightning wrote:I am sooooo envious!!! If I had a spot like that it would host a gorgeous antique hand fed stove.. Wow! And the kitty would find a nice place right out in front to soak up the radiant heat..

Welcome partner, stick around, we have lotsa intriguing discussions around here

Thank you for the kind words. If you dream it you can make it happen.

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Mon. Feb. 10, 2014 6:59 pm

Tee fire wrote:The pellet stove is not worth the work.

Not sure what that means. You dump pellets in the hopper of a pellet stove, you dump coal in the hopper of a coal stoker. Seems like the same work.

I'm not trying to talk you out of a coal stove, and LL is what I would want if I wasn't a low-tech hand-fed guy – but I'm not sure what benefit it will give you over your current pellet stove??? In my area, pellets are more readily available than coal, and are roughly competitive with coal in cost per BTU. If you live near coal country your economics may tilt toward coal. If you can’t store a whole winter’s worth of fuel, coal might be a problem because sometimes it is hard to get late in the season – again, that’s for my area, your area might be different. Coal is easier to store because it doesn’t take up as much space as pellets (per BTU), and you don’t have to worry about getting the coal wet.

Black_And_Blue · Post by **Black_And_Blue** » Mon. Feb. 10, 2014 7:15 pm

nice cat warmer you got there