Hello
I am going to be using a Gibraltar coal stove
(Single glass door model ). Someone mentioned to me that there might be something would sit inside and keep the coal more centralie, instead of spread out. This is my first year burning coal and any help would be great!
Gibraltar Stove Question
Welcome to the forum and welcome to the world of burning black rocks!!!!
The Gibralter is a beast of a stove. Without a doubt it is the heaviest stove I ever tried to move, even stripped down. It takes a while to get it going but once you do and get it loaded up, it will cruise along and put out a tremendous amount of heat. The only thing I can think about is sometimes people will want to reduce the size of the firebox on these units. They can do that by putting some refractory bricks on each side of the firebox and that will effectively reduce the size of the box. I can't think of anything else they could be refering to?
Again welcom to the forum and I am sure others will chime in shortly.
The Gibralter is a beast of a stove. Without a doubt it is the heaviest stove I ever tried to move, even stripped down. It takes a while to get it going but once you do and get it loaded up, it will cruise along and put out a tremendous amount of heat. The only thing I can think about is sometimes people will want to reduce the size of the firebox on these units. They can do that by putting some refractory bricks on each side of the firebox and that will effectively reduce the size of the box. I can't think of anything else they could be refering to?
Again welcom to the forum and I am sure others will chime in shortly.
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Heat output can be limited by letting ash build up on the grates. Just don't shake as hard,ashes remain & clog the air flow ,less air = less fire & less heat. When outside temps plummet,shake to clear the ashes ,the air flow increases,fire increases ,heat increases & you get warmer.
Yep Windy I do that when it's shoulder months. I only add coal to one half the firebox and let the other side ash up and go out. Then instead of shaking I knife the grate only on the side I want to use. This procedure can get tricky because your shake and bake times are then effictively cut in half since your burning a smaller area and mass. When I want to pick up the rest of the stove, I add coal all the way on both sides and SLOWLY knife out the ash on the side that was loafing before. If I do that unburned side too fast, the grates will be clear and the air will start bypassing the air through the dead coal starving the burning coal. With everything else on a coal stove......move SLOWLY.
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I think there has been a couple Gibraltar owners that put fire bricks laying on their side along the front of the stove in order to load more coal and keep it away from the glass...cabanas wrote:Hello
I am going to be using a Gibraltar coal stove
(Single glass door model ). Someone mentioned to me that there might be something would sit inside and keep the coal more centralie, instead of spread out. This is my first year burning coal and any help would be great!
...I could be wrong and if you don't believe me you can ask my wife
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Fire brick goes around the sides and the back, and a cast iron banking bar goes in the frontcabanas wrote:Hello
I am going to be using a Gibraltar coal stove
(Single glass door model ). Someone mentioned to me that there might be something would sit inside and keep the coal more centralie, instead of spread out. This is my first year burning coal and any help would be great!
Eric