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Hi..my name is dave and im addicted to coal, coal smoke, and coal accessories. The Air Force sent me up here to Alaska around four years ago and within a year and a half of those four i fell in love with the place. About a year ago i bought a log cabin a bit out from Wasilla to get some peace and quiet and that i got. All last year i heated my house with a Toyostove Laser 73, which let me down in early January with temps around -30. Ever since then ive wanted something better that would never let me down. I heard about people burning coal a little further north of here and finally found a coal guy pretty close to where i live. I shelled out some big bucks and got a locally made Romax stove(works too good) and got my first load of coal, ever since, ive been in love Its been a little too warm for me to burn much coal this winter. The house needs sub zero temps for it to not be 80 in the house. If i work it right i can keep the temp close to 73 or so but thats if everything goes right. Im just glad i found this forum because the guys at work are ready to strangle me i talk about coal so much. I finally have a place to vent, glad to be a part of the forum.

Hi Dave
welcome, lets see some pics of that stove of yours.
Ray

Its a work in progress. notice the melted shades... ops






Thats kind of the basics of the stove. If you want to see more in depth pics lemme know.

I showed you mine now show me yours.

Thanks for the link man. Im notorious for asking questions with answers.

Good heavens man, what is that flintlock? An .80 caliber?

My name is Freetown Fred.I'm from Freetown,NY,imagine that,we are 1/2 way between Binghamton & Syracuse off Rt. 81.I got sick of blocking & splitting firewood after 50 yrs.I picked up an old Hitzer 50-93 last yr.rebuilt it & am in the process of learning how to use it.Between this website & the willingness of Dean at Hitzer to offer suggestions on how to do that,I think I'm doing OK.This stove is much like an old Shovelhead.It's got a combination & we're gaining on it.Thank you all for your help.

Good to see a new face. Ive found that there is almost too much info on here.

That's universal,it's good that God gave us the ability to sort through & use what's pertinent to our personal circumstances--but,I hear what you're saying!

valley trash wrote:Good to see a new face. Ive found that there is almost too much info on here.

Fred, Is that an Allis? Hard to tell.

Yep,she's an old WD--starts up when everything else up here on the hill is froze solid

no74falcon wrote:Fred, Is that an Allis? Hard to tell.

COOL!!! Not only are you a fellow Hitzer user, but you have an old tracor! Any others? Most of mine are green but I do have a Allis "U" to go with them, among other colored tractors.

My name is Chris and would like to say this is a great site,I've learned so much on how to burn coal.I am a rookie & just started to use coal this year.So many people told me how dangerous coal was" you can blow yourself up". So I did some research and found this forum ,all summer long I kept coming here reading all I could and finally in early fall decided to install my Waterford Coal stove that had been sitting around by house for ten years collecting dust.When I purchased my house 10 yrs. ago it had the stove hooked up. I took it out because of lack of knowledge and everyone telling me I was going to blow the house up.Wow can't believe I suffered for 10 yrs. freezing every winter. Thanks again to all the people that post here. By the way it's been a toasty winter with low utility bills.