Introduce Yourself

Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: Darren L On: Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:11 am

hello all my name is Darren Landis I live in Douglassville,Pa with my wife of 25 years and our 17 year old son.I have been a wood burner for the last 20 years and looking to switch to coal this year.I have only looked at two stoves so far looking forward on learning from this forum.
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: Poconoeagle On: Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:20 am

Welcome Darren.. is there a back up system in the house? i.e. hot air system? radiators and boiler?
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: tsb On: Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:31 am

Darren,

I live in Amityville and have a have a variety of coal stoves.
Hand fed to a home made boiler. PM me if you are interested in
taking a look. I'll be out all this afternoon, which is unusual, but
am mostly a home body the rest of the time.
I work with a couple of dirt racers. I'm sure they know you.

Tom
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: Darren L On: Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:11 pm

we currently have oil fired radiators,thanks Tom may indeed take you up on your offer.
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: Helena On: Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:47 pm

Hello: I'm Helena from NY. My grandfather was a coal miner in PA around 1915. His name was Zagibajlo or Zagieboylo. I probably have family I don't know about out there. My husband and I have a question about a Monogram Coal Stove made in Quincy, Ill.

I posted a question in the Coal Hand Fired stove section because someone offered us $200 for the stove and my husband refused it. While it is old we didn't want to accept too little for it. It hasn't been used since we got it in the 70's. Please check out my post I put on there today ( 2/14)with the size and physical description.
I'm trying to figure out this website. Looks like you have a lot covered.
PS How do you contact me?
Thanks everyone. Helena
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: freetown fred On: Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:22 pm

Welcome to the Forum guys :)
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: Mrbtu On: Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:13 pm

Hello to all the members of NEPA. My name is Vic, and I would like to say I just purchased a new AHS-130 2 weeks ago. I made my decision by reading all the informative information from this forum. My journey started as soon as oil hit $3.85 a gallon. I first looked at wood gasification boilers, but my decision quickly turned to a coal stroker :D . After doing research and reading this forum It was a no brainer... Being that I work crazy hours and after explaining to my wife that she may have to load the wood burner up to twice a day if i wasn't around, the AHS was an easy sell. I am looking forward to continue reading about other members comments/experiences as well as contributing my own.
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: Rob R. On: Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:18 pm

Welcome Vic. We are standing by to answer any questions you might have about the S130 or the install.

-Rob
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: Short Bus On: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:45 am

Bump, this thread works better when is apears at the top of the main page.
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: plumber On: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:30 am

Greetings from northwest Rhode Island! I have no idea how I stumbled on this site, but I'm sure glad I did. The information on this site is just awesome. I'm still reading through the forum to get some ideas for my new house. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do yet, but it will have a stoker. I just need to find a supplier.
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: freetown fred On: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:34 am

Welcome plumber :) you got questions?? By God you'll find answers here,there's a lot of knowledge floating around cyber wise--I think there's more R.I. people here. Keep in touch!!
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Hello From The Champlain

PostBy: vmi1983 On: Sun Apr 17, 2011 12:38 pm

I am Matt Looby and I live in Wadhams, NY. I live on the NE part of the Adirondak State Park. It's a very rural and wooded area and situated very close
to Lake Champlain. We get maybe two weeks of hot summer days a year. Spring comes late and fall early. Durning summer nights, temps can briefly drop into the upper 30's and 40's. I have been heating my home with oil and an electric heater and I finally made the move to coal stove.

Most of my friends have and use wood or coal. I just picked up a used red enamel Vigilant 2310 from a farmer in Vermont. I am cleaning it and getting it
up to snuff, and then it's on to installing a prefab chimney.

I just wanted to say I appreciate all the information I have read on the forums. Thanks! :D

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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: freetown fred On: Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:40 pm

Hey Matt, welcome to the FORUM--in case you didn't notice, coal season's winding down & everybodies chompin at the bit to get things cleaned up outside. Sounds like an outstanding project you've got lined up--keep us posted--pix are greatly appreciated--in the avatar/profile section there's room for stove type & location--don't worry, nobody'll steal you. toothy ---again, welcome to the FORUM my friend---you seen CHAMP yet this year? ;)
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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: vmi1983 On: Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:45 am

freetown fred wrote:Hey Matt, welcome to the FORUM--in case you didn't notice, coal season's winding down & everybodies chompin at the bit to get things cleaned up outside. Sounds like an outstanding project you've got lined up--keep us posted--pix are greatly appreciated--in the avatar/profile section there's room for stove type & location--don't worry, nobody'll steal you. toothy ---again, welcome to the FORUM my friend---you seen CHAMP yet this year? ;)



Thanks Fred! :D

I have the stove grate, side and back walls removed. It was missing three cleanout plate covers! I removed 3/4 of giant vacuum pot worth of ash and well constructed mouse nest with insulation. Previous owner could not get the stove to burn properly; no draft! ;)

See you,

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Re: Introduce Yourself

PostBy: freetown fred On: Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:09 am

them little meeces love that insulation,too gritty for me,kept sticking in my dentures. Most of these stoves are a real simple design & it amazes me, as I'm sure it does you how dumb some people are ;) Yep, all that will effect the old draft. toothy
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