Glenwood 111

Hi joe. Just watched the video ... You did well and it wasn't goofy at all. I was hoping for a follow up video with it burning coal. Maybe in the future? Nice cameo appearance from Scott. Thanks.
Nice job.

For what it's worth neither my Crawford 2, or 40 liked kimmels. It burned ok but was always loaded with fines so I had to be careful not to load the fines. Maybe it was from the same lousy batch Joe.
You say you purchased it from the Westfield Ma. Agway? You could be ash clogged again ....

you did well and nice stove again you did well !

Merc300d wrote:Hi joe. Just watched the video ... You did well and it wasn't goofy at all. I was hoping for a follow up video with it burning coal. Maybe in the future? Nice cameo appearance from Scott. Thanks.
Nice job.

Thanks for being polite Kevin And I was going to do one of it running, but 1st I need to get over this last one.

scalabro wrote:For what it's worth neither my Crawford 2, or 40 liked kimmels. It burned ok but was always loaded with fines so I had to be careful not to load the fines. Maybe it was from the same lousy batch Joe.
You say you purchased it from the Westfield Ma. Agway? You could be ash clogged again ....

I don't think it's ash clogged Scott, because I've mostly been feeding the coals from that little shovel. You know how difficult it is to use, but I get to inspect each chunk that goes in. Maybe tomorrow I'll try your Blaschak. I like Williams comment about the pot being ashed up, but I think it's just from burning for 15 hours.(?)

Nice video Joe. The stove turned out beautiful. Speaking of loading the stove by shovel, my loading door is so small on my G109 that I have to load my stove by shovel. The plus side is it's loaded after only a few scoops...

Well done Joe.

Had the same happen to me with a bag of Match Light from Wal-Mart. Likely the bag sat on the shelf too long. Now I use William's method. Regular BBQ charcoal and kerosene. That way I know how fresh the kero is.

Paul

tcalo wrote:Nice video Joe. The stove turned out beautiful. Speaking of loading the stove by shovel, my loading door is so small on my G109 that I have to load my stove by shovel. The plus side is it's loaded after only a few scoops...

Tom,

Sometimes you can find antique coal shovels. The real ones not the short scoop "ash" shovels they've been selling for years. The shovel scoop is twice as long as the ones you can buy now, but not wider. It holds twice as much coal in one scoop but still gets the coal in neatly through a small stove door.

The one I have was with my coal hot water heater, which has an oval hatch door on top to pour the coal in though. If you tried to pour from a coal bucket half the coal would be on the floor.

Paul

Liked the video. Either you are bigger or the stove is smaller than I thought.

tcalo wrote:Nice video Joe. The stove turned out beautiful. Speaking of loading the stove by shovel, my loading door is so small on my G109 that I have to load my stove by shovel. The plus side is it's loaded after only a few scoops...

I can see that being a plus Tom. you won't need to wait 3 hrs for it to get on line.

Sunny Boy wrote:Tom,
Sometimes you can find antique coal shovels. The real ones not the short scoop "ash" shovels they've been selling for years. The shovel scoop is twice as long as the ones you can buy now, but not wider. It holds twice as much coal in one scoop but still gets the coal in neatly through a small stove door.
Paul

I'll have to look for one of them Paul. Are they rare?

franco b wrote:Liked the video. Either you are bigger or the stove is smaller than I thought.

I'm guessing it's the stove being smaller FB. And more thanks for the vote of confidence.

Very nice stove, not too much bling,just enough to make it fit the pretty category

Video was not bad

You guys do talk funny tho

Sounds like the Boston influence got your voices

Another night of a long time getting up to temp. House is still cold. (Not really, cause my oil furnace thermostat is set to 70°). House temp is about 72. I'm talking about a livingroom no bigger than 16x16, and the foyer that the stove is in. Total no more than 400-500 sq/ft. Because I couldn't get the barrel temp any higher than 400° after 3 hrs, I put it back into direct draft, and the barrel temp has finally reached 600. Also shut the MPD about 45°. Maybe I can get the house to warm up. My daughter was sitting at the supper table with a hooded sweat shirt, (hood on), and a parker on top of that. (It's not really that cold). I'm hoping Scott is onto something with the Kimmel.
P.S. I just missed your post, Dave, and was gunna thro in a "Y'all" for you southern boys.

Nice job joeq I loved it! Did Scott explain how these stoves multiply?

joeq wrote:Hi Steve, sure, my draft is always minimum -.04, sometimes I'll bring it to .07-.08 just to try and get things moving. And thanks for the poking from above tip. This I haven't done yet. As for having 12" flames in 2-5 mins.? I'll be happy with 10 mins. Yesterday it took 2 hrs to get the fire fully lit, and I blamed it on smothering with a full pot of fresh stuff. Tonite, I tried layering, and here I am over 2 hrs, and still not there. Almost, but not quite. That's with the primaries wide open, and the MPD wide open. Barrel temp barely 300°. I'm still using the Kimmel. Maybe I should try Scotts Blaschak.

are you remembering to put it in direct draft before tending and leaving it there till the new blues are rolling ?

give the outline a serious precise run twice tomorrow and let us know how it went.

remember what William said, consistancy. you can get that stove thru a recharge and pushing heat in under 15 mins. "i garrontee"

try not to make it go much past the 12 hr. mark and it'll be much easier.

nice vid. someday I need to get someone to help me do that.

keep your stick on the ice,
steve

joeq wrote:

tcalo wrote:Nice video Joe. The stove turned out beautiful. Speaking of loading the stove by shovel, my loading door is so small on my G109 that I have to load my stove by shovel. The plus side is it's loaded after only a few scoops...

I can see that being a plus Tom. you won't need to wait 3 hrs for it to get on line.

Sunny Boy wrote:Tom,
Sometimes you can find antique coal shovels. The real ones not the short scoop "ash" shovels they've been selling for years. The shovel scoop is twice as long as the ones you can buy now, but not wider. It holds twice as much coal in one scoop but still gets the coal in neatly through a small stove door.
Paul

I'll have to look for one of them Paul. Are they rare?

franco b wrote:Liked the video. Either you are bigger or the stove is smaller than I thought.

I'm guessing it's the stove being smaller FB. And more thanks for the vote of confidence.

Joe, Not too rare. Lots of them turn up on eBay. Here's just a few from the first page searching eBay for "coal shovel".
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Old-Hearth-Fireplace-Coal-Sh ... xyjzNRGUa2

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Old-Hearth-Fireplace-Coal-Sh ... SwFqJWspco

http://www.ebay.com/itm/20-GREEN-COAL-ASH-SHOVEL-SCOOP-PRIMI ... Swk1JWewzz

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-VINTAGE-GALVENIZED-METAL-19- ... Swys5WWbhY

Paul

That's very strange that the Kimmel's takes that long to get going. Last year and this year's Kimmel's nut, that I bought at TS, is like a cross between coal and wood to get it burning.

Is it possible that the stove, and/or stove pipe have air leaks somewhere ?

Paul