Burning Bit Coal

 
KingCoal
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Post by KingCoal » Wed. Sep. 07, 2016 7:33 pm

Lightning wrote:
Jaytow wrote:It's not Bit coal. Chest nut.
Where work we have a kiln that burns bit I can get for free. But has alot of fines.
Oh okay, so you mean chestnut anthracite. If you plan to use that then it opens doors for many different stoves. It depends on how much space you need to heat, how well insulated the house is, (heat demand).
please specify which type coal is expected to be burnt. Bituminous or anthracite ?

as for the WM 400 it's a fantastic stove. built for peat, sub bit, bit or anth will burn them all very well and make tons of heat.

as with all used stoves it must be inspected under very good light, there are many places on these that problems could be hiding.

replacement bricks for instance will cost around $85+ EACH if you have to buy them retail. the grates could be cracked, warped or stuck. the barrel could have holes behind the bricks. the doors could be warped and unable to be made to close completely thus no control over fire.

if it's a good one, there are few better "work horse" stoves. if it's a bad one you will be out the purchase price and have a new life lesson.


 
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Post by Jaytow » Wed. Sep. 07, 2016 7:51 pm

I am going to try to burn the soft bit coal I can get from work. If not will go with the chestnut.
The guy I'm buying it from says it's in excellent condition. Going to look at it Friday and possibly pick it up if it's what he says it is.
$150. Didn't think that was bad.

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Post by Jaytow » Wed. Sep. 07, 2016 8:01 pm

Thank you all for the feed back. Apreceitate.

I could get a riteway for $400. I've read that the WM was just as well so figured for less money and the condition I'd go with the WM.
Like I said the bit from my workplace burnEd well in my wood only stove when I mixed it. Added longer burn and a bit hotter. Worked well.

 
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Post by KingCoal » Wed. Sep. 07, 2016 8:29 pm

Jaytow wrote:I am going to try to burn the soft bit coal I can get from work. If not will go with the chestnut.
The guy I'm buying it from says it's in excellent condition. Going to look at it Friday and possibly pick it up if it's what he says it is.
$150. Didn't think that was bad.
i think I recognize that stove and setting from an ad by one of our contibutors but there have been so many I could be mistaken.

from the pic, if it looks as good in person as in photo, i'd take that stove over the other every day

good luck

 
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Post by Jaytow » Wed. Sep. 07, 2016 8:32 pm

Thanks for the advice King!☺

 
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Post by KingCoal » Thu. Sep. 08, 2016 5:33 am

your welcome. when you are looking at the stove there will be a manufacturer's I.D. tag on the back get a pic of that for us along with as many others you can get of the inside and outside of the actual stove barrel, doors, bricks and grates

PS it will take an appliance dolly and several guys to get that stove to what ever truck / trailer you can move it in and you DON'T want to drop it. the cabinet is just sheet metal and the bricks are $$$

 
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Post by Jaytow » Thu. Sep. 08, 2016 5:37 am

Sure King, absolutely! Should be picking it up Friday. I'll get all kinds of pics and post them. See what ya all think. ☺

Thanks for the info for loading it onto my truck. Thought the two of us could do it buts sounds like I need a couple more guys. I have a hand truck just need some more manpower.


 
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Post by KingCoal » Thu. Sep. 08, 2016 1:43 pm

Jaytow wrote:Sure King, absolutely! Should be picking it up Friday. I'll get all kinds of pics and post them. See what ya all think. ☺

Thanks for the info for loading it onto my truck. Thought the two of us could do it buts sounds like I need a couple more guys. I have a hand truck just need some more manpower.
the problem is the main barrel that actually holds the fire is in the center of that cabinet and the 2 are only connected with strap brackets. if you're just under the back or side of the cabinet you won't be under any of the weight thus lots of stress on stuff that don't like it. like wise if you lay it on a side, crush the cabinet and dump / break the bricks.

if you use a piece of plywood under the whole bottom and ratchet strap it to the hand truck you might be ok with 3 guys. 4 would be better if you can swing it.

the 400 was listed as 378 #'s in the old ads

 
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Post by Jaytow » Fri. Sep. 09, 2016 12:23 am

This is the bituminous coal I have at my workplace. It's for our kiln. It's grind down to powder form and blown in.
Thought maybe I could take the bigger chunks that fall down after the pile is pushed up with the loader.
Thoughts. Lol

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Post by SWPaDon » Fri. Sep. 09, 2016 1:14 am

Welcome to the forum. Here are my thoughts:

1) Theres nothing there for a size comparison, making it impossible to determine size.

2) That'll be a lot of work, handpicking for an entire heating season.

3) The orange color you see is sulpher, BTU's will be very low because of it. And it will smoke like the dickens.

4) If you have neighbors, they will grow a dislike for you very quickly.

 
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Post by Jaytow » Fri. Sep. 09, 2016 1:45 am

Thanks Don for your thoughts.
My thoughts were the same.
Thinking I'm just going to buy some coal in bulk.
Luckily I don't have any neighbors. But I want a nice smooth burn and not have to deal with it all the time. Was just a thought seeing as it is easy to get here at work.

 
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Post by Jaytow » Fri. Sep. 09, 2016 7:03 pm

Pictures of the new stove as promised.
Looking forward to getting this hooked up.
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Some pics of new WM stove.

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Doesn’t appear to be in bad shape at all.

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Post by warminmn » Fri. Sep. 09, 2016 7:12 pm

It looks like you did very very good! Those corner bricks that are hollow, treat them carefully, as they are very expensive.

Edit: don't throw wood into this breaking those corner bricks as it would be easy to do.

 
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Post by SWPaDon » Fri. Sep. 09, 2016 7:16 pm

warminmn wrote:It looks like you did very very good! Those corner bricks that are hollow, treat them carefully, as they are very expensive.

Edit: don't throw wood into this breaking those corner bricks as it would be easy to do.
+1

 
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Post by Jaytow » Fri. Sep. 09, 2016 7:20 pm

They look expensive! Not sure if you can even get them anymore?
I will make sure to take care of them. Lol


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