End frustration with starting a stoker stove

There is a new product out specifically for starting stokers. It is the Jesse Stoker Stove Fire Starter. Designed for use with any rice or buckwheat coal burning stove with combustion air. It is fast and easy and inexpensive.

Firestarters have long been made for wood burners but it is about time one was made for coal stokers.

One bag placed in a fresh bed of coal, light the bag, close the door and turn the stove on. For self-feeding boilers and furnaces with a bed larger than 10 inches use more than one fire starter.

Made in USA. Tested by Blaschak Coal Corp.
Patent Pending

For more info on the Jesse Stoker Stove Fire Starter contact http://www.stovepartsplus.com or ask your local dealer.

Sounds like something neat! thanks for the post.

you can introduce your self here its never to late

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COAL MICE have been around a long time, any hardware store or stove store sells them.

You can also use a variety of other items (Charcoal, etc....) works great.! and a lot cheaper.

I buy fire starter bags at my coles hardware store. they are a brown paper bag with coal and shredded paper. Never had a problem getting my fire going. It is actually extremely easy.

But none the less, looks like a nice product

Until I figured out how to light my Channing, I was thinking to "end it all" and get some dynamite! It got me that mad!

But after reading here about using cowboy charcoal and using a temporary 'dam' near the end of the chute, I can now say it's first try every time! Some cowboy coal, some rice coal, a little more cowboy coal, and about 1 minute with a hardware-store blow torch. Turn on the air and let 'er rip!

I started making my own, with some shredded paper, some good hardwood shavings from my hand plane, some broken charcoal and put in a small brown bag and bury in the coal. !! Usually only need 1 or 2 a season.

Lighting a stoker

We don't need no coal rodents. Really guys and gals! It couldn't be any easier.

WNY SAID:

"I started making my own, with some shredded paper, some good hardwood shavings from my hand plane, some broken charcoal and put in a small brown bag and bury in the coal. !! Usually only need 1 or 2 a season."

Bingo to WNY: small bag, shredded paper, cowboy coal or broken charcoal in small pieces, wrap up, put in bed of coal, put little coal on top, blow torch, start stove, happy, over and over, happy.

I purchased these Jessie coal starters from this company at their website posted here and I had a terrible experience. First of all it is impossible to talk to someone there. Their product is junk, you can make your own with a brown paper bag, charcoal and cut up paper. They charged me extra for PA Tax 8% instead of 6% so I tried to contact them via phone and email with no reply whatsoever ! Really pissed me off ! DON’T BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM THEY ARE RIPP-OFFS !!!!!!!

WNY wrote:I started making my own, with some shredded paper, some good hardwood shavings from my hand plane, some broken charcoal and put in a small brown bag and bury in the coal. !! Usually only need 1 or 2 a season.

use some dryer lint also