Considering a Coal Gun

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lzaharis
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Post by lzaharis » Sun. Feb. 16, 2014 12:59 pm

wkrazi wrote:First year with Coal; Learning curve not too bad so far; questions on ash - I will ask on another board
Are you happy with your AHS unit? I am looking to change to a stoker after 32 years of buring wood and coal.

-Not getting any younger and log loads are extremely hard to come by with good clean logs
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Post by lsayre » Sun. Feb. 16, 2014 2:19 pm

I've been very happy with mine. Into my third heating season with it, and I also burn it year round to provide for the homes hot water (DHW) needs. It is a very low maintenance coal boiler.

 
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Post by mdhorvath » Sun. Feb. 16, 2014 3:07 pm

First year with my coal gun and I am very happy so far.

 
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Post by rwwsr » Sun. Feb. 16, 2014 8:10 pm

Ditto what lsayre and mdhorvath said.

I have 3 s260 for heating greenhouses and have had few problems with them. Looks like maybe 30t per unit this year and so far no down time to fix anything (1 match each) :)

Not getting any younger here either. Currently heating house with wood (jotul 600) Have wood lot and I enjoy cutting/processing wood :shock: , hopefully will continue heating house with wood until no longer able. I plan to then change over to coal with an s130 for heating the house, as I think it would be easier than handling wood.
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Post by Pa papa » Mon. Feb. 17, 2014 12:06 pm

Same here. Forth year heating with a coal gun. My ONLY regret is not doing it 20 years ago.

 
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Post by dchartt » Mon. Feb. 17, 2014 12:18 pm

I would highly consider auger fed

 
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Post by lzaharis » Mon. Feb. 17, 2014 1:02 pm

dchartt wrote:I would highly consider auger fed
I would but there is little room to do it unless I spend the money and build a hopper at the end of the house behind the room where the boiler is or a one car garage to house the all utilities which would make life simpler but more expensive and I will still be using my propane hot water heater except I will not be feeding a domestic unless I change my mind about that and add a tempering loop(I may still do that though)

I have been running my single heating loop at a high cut out at 160 and low cut out 140 degrees.

I pail all the coal I burn now so filling a hopper with a step stool is not a big deal.
I would have special order a round hopper or order a shorter standard hopper.

 
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Post by wkrazi » Wed. Feb. 19, 2014 10:04 am

i am very happy with my 260. I have burned more coal than planned. 10 ton so far heating a kennel and home. the winter is the worst here in a number of years. so I am glad I am out of the wood business because I would be in the woods cutting more at the present time. instead I am in a very warm home and smiling. I have slowly made adjustments which have led to better coal use and water temps maintained. next year I should have a much better handle on adjustments which will lead to way better coal use. I highly recommend AHS systems.


 
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Post by plumberman » Fri. Feb. 21, 2014 8:17 am

couldn't be any happier w/130 heating 1300' pole barn, 1400' newer ranch house and domestic hot water, so far this month it's between 120and 160 pounds a day. the barn never gets any sun an the house gets very little, out side temps 15 below at worst and not shure if it got above freezing :D

 
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Post by RONO123 » Thu. Mar. 06, 2014 4:07 pm

We have bought 10 coal guns s130 and s260 oldest is 7 yrs old. From Jeff and bwise. All set up with auger feed.
We manufacture the ash augers, which dump into a bin. Bins are skid steer or fork mount and have a dump gate like a dumptruck. So whole system is automatic. Light it once, forget it.
Ash bin vary to the unit and location. 3x3x5 bin handles the ash of 4 tons of coal. The auger grinds it fine. We use ultraflite hd flite in 6" tube so it does not wear out at all. We build some with auger motors on discharge, some on intake end. some wired into grate motor and some with time delay. No dust no headache

 
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Post by plumberman » Fri. Mar. 07, 2014 7:08 am

question on ash augers. do you have ball park price? I have a ahs 130 and it would be some sweet to have ash dump in to a 55gal drum :D thanks!!!

 
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Post by NWBuilder » Fri. Mar. 07, 2014 9:39 am

RONO123 wrote:We have bought 10 coal guns s130 and s260 oldest is 7 yrs old. From Jeff and bwise. All set up with auger feed.
We manufacture the ash augers, which dump into a bin. Bins are skid steer or fork mount and have a dump gate like a dumptruck. So whole system is automatic. Light it once, forget it.
Ash bin vary to the unit and location. 3x3x5 bin handles the ash of 4 tons of coal. The auger grinds it fine. We use ultraflite hd flite in 6" tube so it does not wear out at all. We build some with auger motors on discharge, some on intake end. some wired into grate motor and some with time delay. No dust no headache
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