Stove Startup Time Has Arrived

 
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Post by blrman07 » Mon. Sep. 26, 2016 12:46 pm

Lit off on coal yesterday morning for a full time run. Momma was cold. I have the coal. Why not???? No good reason.

Stove is firing on coal. 41 OAT 72 inside.

Momma's happy.... :)


 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Mon. Sep. 26, 2016 12:52 pm

I can see a wood stove if you get wood cheap and you don't mind tending the stove more often. Kid who worked for me spends almost all of his spare time in summer and fall cutting, transporting, splitting, and stacking over 10 cords of wood he uses through winter.

One of my daughters spent several years living with just a wood stove for heat. Said she's had enough of waking up to, and coming home from work to, a cold house.

She bought 15 acres to build a house on that is mostly wooded. She's having it sustainably logged, and could have all the good size limbs cut for firewood, but she's not interested. Instead she's asked for one of my oak stoves and has figured a coal range into the house design for the kitchen. ;)

I'm guessing others are catching on too and that's why Tractor Supply has gotten into the coal sales business. Every year I see ads for yet another store that is now carrying coal stoves. When I got my stove 12 years ago there was only one coal dealer 20 miles from here. In the past three years three more businesses have started selling coal and they are all within 10 miles of here.

Paul

 
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Post by johnjoseph » Mon. Sep. 26, 2016 1:25 pm

29 Degrees with a heavy frost at my house this morning and my house is maintaining 67 degrees...soooo I'm going to wait until it can't maintain 62 degrees before I light the K-6 boiler. I could actually squeeze another 3 weeks or so. :lol:

 
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Post by windyhill4.2 » Mon. Sep. 26, 2016 1:56 pm

Turned the t-stat on in the house last night,heat came on around 1 am & has cycled several times since then. We had 42* yesterday am,44* this am.
Turned the t-stats on in the shop this am,heat has been cycling since then. 60* outside now,cloudy with light drizzle.

 
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Post by Canaan coal man » Mon. Sep. 26, 2016 2:38 pm

Yep last night had my first wood fire in the G6 for the 16-17 heating season. I will comment that Williams stove polish stinks/smokes way less than other brands that I have used in the past. almost used a full tube rubbing down the Glenwood yesterday afternoon. :D

 
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Post by joeq » Mon. Sep. 26, 2016 10:21 pm

Thanks for that tip Brenden. Been wanting to polish up the 111 too. So you recommend the "Williams" brand? Can it be bought locally, or is it mail-order? I was thinking of throwing some logs in my stove too, for early evening warmth, but not sure if it can be done on the coal grates. I don't want to damage the stove.

 
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Post by Canaan coal man » Tue. Sep. 27, 2016 6:32 am

joeq wrote:Thanks for that tip Brenden. Been wanting to polish up the 111 too. So you recommend the "Williams" brand? Can it be bought locally, or is it mail-order? I was thinking of throwing some logs in my stove too, for early evening warmth, but not sure if it can be done on the coal grates. I don't want to damage the stove.
Got the Willams right at tractor supply in there heating/stove section. Was using imperial the Lowes brand but very smoky for a few hours.


 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Tue. Sep. 27, 2016 11:05 am

Canaan coal man wrote:
joeq wrote:Thanks for that tip Brenden. Been wanting to polish up the 111 too. So you recommend the "Williams" brand? Can it be bought locally, or is it mail-order? I was thinking of throwing some logs in my stove too, for early evening warmth, but not sure if it can be done on the coal grates. I don't want to damage the stove.
Got the Willams right at tractor supply in there heating/stove section. Was using imperial the Lowes brand but very smoky for a few hours.
Saturday morning, before I started the range, I tried the Williams on the new center top plate on my range and it smoked slightly. Not much smell.

However, that plate over the center of the firebox is the hottest part of the stove - often reaching 700+. In about 24 hours it turned the Williams to gray powder that I could wiped off with a paper towel.

The Meeco stove polish I started using last year doesn't smoke, or stink.

The Meeco liquid stove polish goes on very much like the Williams, but it lasts longer in that hot spot than the Williams did. I get the Meeco at my local hardware store. And if I remember correctly, Lowes carries it too.

I'm now trying Meeco's "Raven Black" paste stove polish. Comes in a jar. Compared to William's and Meeco's liquid polish, the Raven leaves a thicker coating after it fully dry and then polished. So far it's holding up very well.

I'll see if I can dig up the thread from last year about testing stove polishes and add this latest test to it.

And now that heating season is here, it'll help to bring the thread back to the first page. Hopefully, others can add their stove polish results, too.

Paul
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Post by johnjoseph » Tue. Sep. 27, 2016 11:21 am

Paul....it matters not to me what polish you use....but if you don't stop posting about all the great food you guys cook I'm gonna go batshit crazy! OH HELL...I already have! :lol:

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Tue. Sep. 27, 2016 11:27 am

johnjoseph wrote:Paul....it matters not to me what polish you use....but if you don't stop posting about all the great food you guys cook I'm gonna go batshit crazy! OH HELL...I already have! :lol:
Around here that's not crazy, that's just proof that your ready to get another coal stove. :D

Trust me - a coal stove you can also cook on will make you feel much better. ;)

Paul

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Tue. Sep. 27, 2016 11:47 am

Ok, I found some of the stove polish tests that went on last year. Here's the link.
Stove Polish

I'll add to it as I get results. Anyone else, please join in with your results of what polish, what surface it went on, how hot do you think that gets, and how long it holds up before needing to be redone.

I realize that my tests are on stove areas that few heating stoves will ever see, but maybe with such high temps being more of an "accelerated test" it might prove useful for the longevity of various polishes ?????

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Post by Sunny Boy » Thu. Sep. 29, 2016 5:42 pm

Well, today I got my delivery of coal for the winter. Had about 5 tons of nut still in the bin from over ordering the past few years. Got another 5 tons today. That should be enough even if I can get the #6 installed this year.

That should be enough to bake quite a few apple pies. :D

Paul

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Post by joeq » Thu. Sep. 29, 2016 6:05 pm

Holy Mackerel Paul. You got enuff black rock there to power a steam train to California!

 
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Post by SWPaDon » Thu. Sep. 29, 2016 7:45 pm

Started my coal furnace today. Didn't take long until we had to open the door and a window.
Have a different coal this year. I'm using Little Pittsburgh coal from Tri Star Mining in Georges Creek, Md. Here is the 5.5 tons of properly sized nut coal I got delivered yesterday. There is a dollar bill there for size comparison.

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Post by deepwoods » Thu. Sep. 29, 2016 9:46 pm

Today I fired up the DS Champion in the basement. Weather has turned cool & damp. Had the Propain furnace going and my wife looked at me and said better get the coal going. She didn't have to say it twice. Had some smoke from the scrubbed & oiled pipes + some from overspray from cleaning the stove itself last spring. Probably take a day to get the basement up to temperature. It is already gravity feeding into the forced air ducts and the upstairs is nice @ 71 deg. Might need the windowstats later if the weather warms but it is lit for the season as far as I am concerned. I am going for another 8 tons this spring. If worse comes to worse at least I will have another year or two in stock.


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