What Is Going on Here

ok so, 3hrs ago I started with wood and charcoal let that cook for about a hr and then started adding some of my coal war nut coal...

the coal seems to be dirty with dust, smells like burning basement dust with a yellow flame until it is lit then burns with a nice blue flame, so far the pot temp is steady at 550* barrel temp is 450* and stack still holding around 140* so far I am please with the change of the temps and heat output, Ill give another update in a few hours

D.lapan wrote:ok so, 3hrs ago I started with wood and charcoal let that cook for about a hr and then started adding some of my coal war nut coal...

the coal seems to be dirty with dust, smells like burning basement dust with a yellow flame until it is lit then burns with a nice blue flame, so far the pot temp is steady at 550* barrel temp is 450* and stack still holding around 140* so far I am please with the change of the temps and heat output, Ill give another update in a few hours

That sounds more gooder.
Good on ya.

Here is the fire as of 7:40 burning exactly how it was at my last post, I had 2 lbs left in the bottom of my pail so I tossed it in and snapped this pic of the dirty coal starting to catch

shook and loaded at 10pm before bed, then got called out for most of the night, 730am stove used almost 40lbs of coal, only thing left burning was a ball in the center aprox 8-10'' across and maybe 6'' tall with 4 or 5 clinkers starting to form, not real hard ones I was able to break them up with a poker.. but it was -28 here last night and the hickory ran good and hot till the wee hours of the morning, I probably should have tended to it again at 330 when I got home

D.lapan wrote:shook and loaded at 10pm before bed, then got called out for most of the night, 730am stove used almost 40lbs of coal, only thing left burning was a ball in the center aprox 8-10'' across and maybe 6'' tall with 4 or 5 clinkers starting to form, not real hard ones I was able to break them up with a poker.. but it was -28 here last night and the hickory ran good and hot till the wee hours of the morning, I probably should have tended to it again at 330 when I got home

Man, I thought -11°f was cold...but -28° is crazy cold. Sounds like the Hickory did a good job for you! Congrats

Randy

Photog200 wrote:

D.lapan wrote:shook and loaded at 10pm before bed, then got called out for most of the night, 730am stove used almost 40lbs of coal, only thing left burning was a ball in the center aprox 8-10'' across and maybe 6'' tall with 4 or 5 clinkers starting to form, not real hard ones I was able to break them up with a poker.. but it was -28 here last night and the hickory ran good and hot till the wee hours of the morning, I probably should have tended to it again at 330 when I got home

Man, I thought -11°f was cold...but -28° is crazy cold. Sounds like the Hickory did a good job for you! Congrats

Randy

now lets see if I can get it going again......

D.lapan wrote:shook and loaded at 10pm before bed, then got called out for most of the night, 730am stove used almost 40lbs of coal, only thing left burning was a ball in the center aprox 8-10'' across and maybe 6'' tall with 4 or 5 clinkers starting to form, not real hard ones I was able to break them up with a poker.. but it was -28 here last night and the hickory ran good and hot till the wee hours of the morning, I probably should have tended to it again at 330 when I got home

This is where a check damper comes in real handy. The difference in draft from 10 degrees to -10 degrees is incredible. With a check damper you can tame that a bunch.

So yes, you can go through a bunch of coal unintentionally but only if you let it.

so, tending at 11-13hr intervals I am using aprox 30lbs of this old coal a day with even temps other then when loading "hence me poking around asking about the magazine" the lined pot has made the biggest difference as far as consistency and complete burn, I can now run the stove with a barrel temp anywhere between 300-600* and never have the pot temp above 650* and the highest stack temp at the thimble has been 180*..

I don't believe this stove will see any amount of wood again in its future as I am impressed by how consistent the heat output is once figured out, as far as the check damper, I will be adding one soon, I may buy that one on ebay if its still there
thanks for all the help

Nice when things work out

Glad to hear you got the stove working well, D.L