How Much Are You Using? Mid Season Update.

 
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Post by Pacowy » Mon. Feb. 04, 2008 8:19 pm

lincolnmania wrote:i'd say were up to 11-13 tons so far.......lost exact track on the number of times we have gone for coal....we use about a ton a month of nut and 3 tons of buckwheat a month when it's really cold out
That's a lot of btu's. We've used about 9 tons this season, including all hot water since last July. All rice, running an EFM 700 stoker (grafted into a Pacific Steel boiler) and 3 stoker stoves.

 
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Post by e.alleg » Mon. Feb. 04, 2008 11:01 pm

Lincolnmania has got to be happy, that's a ten grand propane or oil bill right there.

 
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Post by lincolnmania » Tue. Feb. 05, 2008 10:45 am

yea there was 2 oil furnaces here (orig was an auction, he had a 500,000 BTU oil furnace in here) and then an oil company got the building and added 2500 sq feet and installed a second water heater, septic system and a second oil furnace.........skip lives in the 2500 sq ft addition....built in the 80's fairly well insulated........he burns about a ton of nut coal a month...usually 75 degrees in there
the efm runs non stop in the garage...the garage is 3200 sq ft (cubic feet is immense.....celing has gotta be 19' at the peak
the alaska in my room burns about 1000 lbs a month......i did some more paneling and insulation in my room, and now I have to let some of the heat escape into the garage........still tho we had four hand fed stoves and we burned a heck of alot more nut coal winter of 2005 and 2006......the old sunbeam we had took 2 shovels every hr if you wanted it to be above 60 out here
i'm gonna need a truck load of insulation to seal this garage up......the snow melts 8 feet from the garage door when we get ice or snow.......i cannot let the garage get below freezing because the cold water supply runs across the rafters to skips house, and I have paint stored for future projects (anybody wants any white or schoolbus yellow imron let me know......somebody left a hundred gallons or more here)
i remodeled and built an addition on to my parents house around 1990 and my father has a new oil burner and he's spending 500 a month to heat the house


 
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Post by beatle78 » Tue. Feb. 05, 2008 4:22 pm

Been running since 2nd week in November. Heating basement ~850 ft2, and upstairs ~1100ft2 well insulated and using domestic coil for HW.

Started out with 3 tons loose rice, i'd say I have ~300-400 lbs left. I'll be going out to get some more soon. Either the end of this week or early next week.

 
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Post by stanggt24 » Mon. Feb. 11, 2008 11:31 pm

I installed my stoker stove in middle of november and have gone through 2 1/4 tons since I fired it off ,i also heat my hot water with it and have gone through 1/8 of a tank of oil since same date have about a ton left will probably need to go buy another 1/2 ton to get through rest of winter. :)

 
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Post by LsFarm » Tue. Feb. 12, 2008 9:32 am

I filled the hopper for the AA boiler last wednesday afternoon, it took 1500#, this is the first time I kept track of how much the hopper holds. :?
It's Tueday morning, and the hopper is pretty close to empty, so I burned close to 300# per day last week. The weather last week was pretty extreem, we had a 24hour period where it stayed below zero, and the wind was above 30mph at the same time..and the daytime temps never got above the low 20's. I would guess the propane would have been around $5-700 for that week !! So $150 for the week is a real bargain.
I'm keeping the house very comfortable, and I could probably save some coal if I put in set-back thermostats to let the temp target drop in the parts of the place when they are not occupied, but those parts of the house are at 64* anyway, a set back would only safely [no frozen pipes] be able to drop the temp target to 60* for 5-6 hours per day. I'm not sure the coal savings would be that great. .

I'm not sure what I have burnt for the year, I really lost track, but I'm going to try to track the use closely for the rest of the season, so I can predict the use for the next few years and put in more coal in storage If I can.

Greg L


 
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Post by VigIIPeaBurner » Tue. Feb. 12, 2008 10:36 am

I've just started on my third ton. Using about 70 -80 Lbs a day of Redding pea in this weather and about half that last week. That is about max for my hand fired without pushing it. Should see our old cat, she's 19 and loves it. She actually backs her self up real close to the stove and she's usually right along side of me me I tend it. I lit her up with the IR thermometer, she was cooking at 112 F :shock: Laughed when I first watched her backing up!

 
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Post by lincolnmania » Tue. Feb. 12, 2008 10:40 am

jc took me for coal jan 30th......i got 2600 lbs of buckwheat.....tommorow we will be down to where I was 2 weeks ago.......so that's about 160 lbs a day between the efm and the alaska

 
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Post by e.alleg » Tue. Feb. 12, 2008 11:18 am

This is the weather where coal is king. The propane tank would be draining out about $50 a day when it's this cold.

 
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Post by coaledsweat » Tue. Feb. 12, 2008 3:07 pm

e.alleg wrote:This is the weather where coal is king. The propane tank would be draining out about $50 a day when it's this cold.
Nothing like keeping things in perspective, eh? :)

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