Oh Harman How I Love You...

EPugs45 · Post by **EPugs45** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 8:04 am

Going on it's 13th hour.....I am seeing how long I can get her to go because there is a chance I could be out late tonight...well another hour and I'll probably shake and bake. At some point in the night the temps came up and I started getting mighty hot even upstairs lol. It's about 80 in here and 70 in the rest of the house. I'm hoping she'll just go low and slow all day then the temps are going to drop again tomorrow. Visiting a friend in NY today so I'm glad the temps are up or it'd be an ice show! Have a nice Monday all!

titleist1 · Post by **titleist1** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 2:06 pm

That is one hot fire ya got going on there!! How many spins open is the knob?? I usually had my Mark III 1/2 to 1-1/2 spins open depending on how cold it was outside. Having a baro damper helped me to keep it from running away too.

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 2:32 pm

Indeed---what T said--you got that baby roaring my friend--tone her down some:) EP, if you don't have that under-air knob open way to far, I'm thinkin you got gasket problems!

Cap · Post by **Cap** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 3:32 pm

Handfired Harman stoves always burn hotter & longer for the first 24hrs after you light up and fill up. After a day or so it's hard to get all of the ash clear in the firebox. You will get the hang of it and adjust the air and coal as necessary,.

davidmcbeth3 · Post by **davidmcbeth3** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 4:41 pm

Hey, get a room you two ! Enjoy your stove.

EPugs45 · Post by **EPugs45** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 5:03 pm

Hi guys. I was wondering why you think it's running too hot? Maybe the color of the coals? This is low and slow for my stove. I'm not sure if you can see it but I still have blue flames after almost 14 hours of burn time. Now last year when I started I can definitely say that I over fired, but now you have me worried I'm doing something wrong. My draft is open less than 1 turn and I fired her up about 6 days ago.

titleist1 · Post by **titleist1** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 5:12 pm

Didn't mean to make you worried...sorry. I was going by the pic, nothing more than that so my assessment of a real hot fire certainly may be off base. That coal bed just looks like it has a lot of 'white' heat to it!

What is the temp on the sides of the stove and on the flue pipe?

Less than a turn on the spinner knob sounds reasonable to me. How are the gaskets around the ash door and loading door, any chance of an air leak there?

Do you have a manometer connected to give us an idea of the draft you are pulling? Although it sure doesn't sound like you have any issue with your heat going up the chimney!!!

joeq · Post by **joeq** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 6:03 pm

That looks screamin hot to me also. (At least compared to my little stove.). Definitely would be nice to have some stats, like stove temp, and draft. I'ld be concerned about the grates baking out of it, but if you've been burning like this reliably for years, more power to you.

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 6:19 pm

Perhaps its just the camera exposure, and in reality it isn't blazing that much. ???

scalabro · Post by **scalabro** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 6:33 pm

Cap wrote:Handfired Harman stoves always burn hotter & longer for the first 24hrs after you light up and fill up. After a day or so it's hard to get all of the ash clear in the firebox. You will get the hang of it and adjust the air and coal as necessary,.

So true. That's how my MKII was. Also on the initial fire up after a shutdown the floor directly under the stove would always get really hot.....

EPugs45 · Post by **EPugs45** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 9:08 pm

This is only our second year with the stove so I'm still a newb when it comes to coal. It's set in the fireplace and I don't have any thermometers on it currently. I have been trying to figure out where you would put them seeing as I don't really have pipe that is easy to reach / read thermometers. Can you put it directly on the stove? We replaced the gaskets and cleaned everything including the chimney and we just replaced all the piping. I don't have a manometer. I'm like the gym guy. I put coal in, I light coal, coal get hot lol. I burn about 40 lbs per 24 hours and it heats my whole house, that's about as far as my experience goes. That's what I love about this forum I'm always learning something. I doubt I'd be doing very well without these forums.

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 10:17 pm

None of us would EP, ya can always learn. Top front would work well:)

tcalo · Post by **tcalo** » Mon. Nov. 17, 2014 11:20 pm

I don't have much experience with Harman stoves...actually no experience, but I'd say 14 hours is a good run. I would think the burn time would be much less if the stove was over fired. Pictures could be deceiving, just look at my avatar...cats can't talk!

EPugs45 · Post by **EPugs45** » Tue. Nov. 18, 2014 7:37 am

Cats are surprising creatures haha, I often wonder what they are thinking but I assume it's not very nice!

Well my stove is going strong despite my husband's poor tending last night, I didn't get home until almost midnight so he had to shake and add, he managed to keep it going, but I found a full ash pan when I went to tend the stove this morning, sloppy! Ha, that's okay it's still alive and well thank goodness, just not a very happy fire until I got it going. Thanks everyone for your suggestions I'm going to order a couple thermometers next and see what my temps are because now I'm just curious! Stay warm everyone!

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Nov. 18, 2014 8:17 am

Just remember---curiosity killed the cat. Is the stove keepin the house warm???????????/

Oh Harman How I Love You...

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