Pictures of your stove

Richard S. · By: **Richard S.** On: Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:01 pm

Sterling, I used to have a customer that had one that looked very much like that one in perfect condition. I swear it looked brand new, anyhow she was very old and got sick and by the time she got back to the house it was covered in rust unfortunately. Apparently her house was very damp or the roof was leaking... what a shame that was.

cozmo469 · By: **cozmo469** On: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:50 pm

Here are a few pictures of my Keystoker that I installed a week ago. Works great.

cozmo469 · By: **cozmo469** On: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:52 pm

running on idle mode

barley master · By: **barley master** On: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:45 am

this is one of my stoves. it capable of burning two tons an hr at high fire.

davemich · By: **davemich** On: Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:40 pm

What in blue blazes are you heating???

WNY · By: **WNY** On: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:01 pm

Cozmo - yours is the same as ours,

It looks a bit close on the left side of the wall. Shouldn't you have a fire board protector? Ours gets really hot (500 Degrees on the sides) when all fired up!! I think there is a min. distance diagram on the back of the stove...

cozmo469 · By: **cozmo469** On: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:39 pm

WNY wrote:Cozmo - yours is the same as ours,

It looks a bit close on the left side of the wall. Shouldn't you have a fire board protector? Ours gets really hot (500 Degrees on the sides) when all fired up!! I think there is a min. distance diagram on the back of the stove...

The minimum distance is 12 inches. I have 13. I had it cranked and the wall did get warm, but did not seem to be excessive. If it does become an issue, I will probably angle it in the corner. I wanted to have a straight shot through the wall, which is why it was places where it is.

Tom

barley master · By: **barley master** On: Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:06 pm

its one of my five units where i work. it has rating of 250 hp of a water tube boiler that sits on top of it.
operating conditions:
stoker
fuel buckwheat #3 (barley)
forced draft fan 1.5"- 4" iwc (pos)
induced draft fan -.05" (neg)
uptake 2-5" iwc (stack)
exit temp. 400-650*f
bed depth 3.5-4.5"
bed width 8'
bed length 12'
boiler conditions
pressure 100 psi (160 mwp)
steam flow 0 to16550 pounds per hr. (33 gpm water flow)
steam temp 338*F
date installed 1948
i have two more identical units to this one and two that are bigger and rated for 450 hp ea.
used for university steam services

bobkat · By: **bobkat** On: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:14 am

Here is a picture of my Hitzer 50-93 "hard at work" currently using straight through with no damper. Considering either a manual or baro in the near future to keep heat where it belongs.

Flathead Youngin' · By: **Flathead Youngin'** On: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:02 pm

here's my Buckeye 137.......he'll get the royal treatment with a fresh coat of paint and i just installed all new metalbestos through the ceiling.....

EasyRay · By: **EasyRay** On: Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:22 am

Well I got rid of my old Temp Coal II stove after 30+ years and bought this Harmon TLC 2000 and I've had it running since 10/26/06. My wife wanted something a little more appealing to the eyes.
I wish it would get a little cooler though.

My other stove was a top loader and I like that feature so hence, another top loader.

Regards, Ray

Matthaus · By: **Matthaus** On: Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:44 am

Just hooked up the Harmon in the garage, keeps everything a toasty 65 degrees without much effort on the stove's part. Using a 5" Field Controls power venter under the eave (14' off the ground). Still don't even have the ceiling up and there are open spaces to the roof area through the insulation!

This stove is definitely going in the house and the Alaska is going up for sale!

boilermaker · By: **boilermaker** On: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:30 pm

barley master wrote:this is one of my stoves. it capable of burning two tons an hr at high fire.

Hi!
That is SO cool! I work on large boilers for a living and would love to see something like this in action. Where is it and what does it provide heat/steam for??

Doug

boilermaker · By: **boilermaker** On: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:48 pm

Here's my set-up. A hand fired Tarm boiler. Coal bin on the left with the orange handled "stoker" laying in the bin. The white tank is my water heater. Actually and old oil fired unit that I use for a storage heater. You can see the sidearm heater I built between the boiler and the tank. Water circualtes (by convection) to this unit and when the tank needs hot water heated it turns on the brown circulator you see above the tank. This pulls water out of the top of the tank, circulates it through the sidearm and back into the bottom of the tank. It's 40 gallons. Even with convection supplying the heated water to the sidearm, we never run out of hot water and we had 4 kids - 3 of them girls!
Anyway, it's old-timey but it's a great system. It doesn't look like much but that pile of coal you see (about 3 tons) is all it takes to heat my home of 4 bedrooms, living, bath, dining, large kitchen, and even the cellar in northern NY state near Quebec Canada. During the summer I make a quick conversion to oil and burn about 100 gallons to heat my hot water for domectic use from April to November or so. When I change it over I do the yearly, thorough cleaning from top to bottom of the unit.

JerseyCoal · By: **JerseyCoal** On: Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:55 pm

Here's a photo of my 1985 Franco Belge, refurbed last year.

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