Gentlemen...Start Your Engines!

billw · Post by **billw** » Thu. Oct. 16, 2008 6:17 pm

Good luck Freddy. Do you have another heat source?

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Thu. Oct. 16, 2008 6:52 pm

Looks like I'll be RE-starting my engine tomorrow -- supposed to be windy & cool -- windy means my insulation goes from an R-9 to an R-0.

bear creek burnout · Post by **bear creek burnout** » Thu. Oct. 16, 2008 8:19 pm

Good luck Freddy....frost will be on the pumpkin soon!!

av8r · Post by **av8r** » Thu. Oct. 16, 2008 8:58 pm

told the wife and kids to bundle up....I'm not lighting until it's consistently under 40. Got another 2 weeks anyway.

LsFarm · Post by **LsFarm** » Thu. Oct. 16, 2008 9:01 pm

I've been burning for two weeks.. most nights below 50*, three nights of hard frost... I've made 1 1/2 tubs of ash..

Greg L

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Thu. Oct. 16, 2008 9:58 pm

Yes!!!

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Not a hot weather person.

Scottscoaled · Post by **Scottscoaled** » Thu. Oct. 16, 2008 10:05 pm

Only shut it down during the summer to clean it, and install a new indirect. Guess tonight I'll go out and hit the switch from summer to winter

Scott

rockwood · Post by **rockwood** » Thu. Oct. 16, 2008 11:26 pm

Wood'nCoal wrote:Not a hot weather person.

Here here!

djackman · Post by **djackman** » Fri. Oct. 17, 2008 1:53 am

Only on a coal messageboard would people get excited they're going to have to turn on their boilers/stoves/furnaces. Isn't it great?

One of my neighbors probably has the guys with the tight white jackets on speed-dial after I was ranting about waiting for some cold weather to test the boiler a little more.

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Fri. Oct. 17, 2008 8:47 am

On the Oil Forum they are padlocking the thermostats.

I have a friend who actually did put a tamper-proof locking cover over the thermostat in his house.

sharkman8810 · Post by **sharkman8810** » Fri. Oct. 17, 2008 9:41 am

I'm debating whether to start or not, they are saying lows in the mid 40's overnight and highs in the low 60's. We will need heat (my daughter get pneumonia easy) but I may just let the oil furnace do it. I won't let the house get chilly or cold.

LsFarm · Post by **LsFarm** » Fri. Oct. 17, 2008 9:49 am

There is a 'cross-over point' where it makse more sense to use the easy to start and shut down oil or gas heating,,, or to fire up the coal system.. my house gets pretty uncomfortable even when the outside temps are in the 50's that I just fire up the coal boiler.. and let it idle through the warmer weather.. the cold nights require heat in this big refrigerator I call my house.

Greg L

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Sat. Oct. 18, 2008 7:12 am

What happened?!? It's 7:10AM on Saturday morning & stll almost 50* outside!

They said it was going to be around freezing!!

Bud L · Post by **Bud L** » Sat. Oct. 18, 2008 7:19 am

I had 38* on my truck thermostat this morning on my way to work. I live just south of coal country. Fired up the Hearth last night. Woke up to a 73* house this morning. Gotta love it.

Pa Dealer · Post by **Pa Dealer** » Sat. Oct. 18, 2008 7:23 am

6:45 AM NEPA 29 degrees yea winter like.