DS Machine Hopper-Fed Boiler - Bituminous?

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deerefanatic
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Post by deerefanatic » Sat. Dec. 27, 2008 8:17 am

HI, A local Amishman here in WI has a veal barn. He heats the barn with radiant floor heat from a large DS Machine woodburning stove. He heats his hot water with a little DS Machine coal boiler. What caught my eye is the DS Machine boiler is hopper fed. It's just what I've been looking for, a simple gravity feed boiler...... The thing even had a thermostatically controlled damper! All electricity free.....

My question is, do you guys think Bituminous would work in this type of stove? I know the amishman was burning Nut sized anthracite in bags that he had shipped in from Pennsylvania.... He had contemplated using Bituminous, but was told by another amishman that had lived in Wyoming for a while that the Bituminous coal had a tendency to bridge up.... Later in the conversation he said that the other guy was using chunk bituminous, while the locally available stuff is all stoker size....

I suppose the easiest way to find out is to get a ton and take over to the Amish guy and let him try it... he already told me that if I get some, he'd like to try 500 lbs or so in his stove..... Maybe that'd be the best bet....
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On a side note, the only thing I wasn't real impressed with on the stove was the fact that there is no firebrick in the stove, so he gets a lot of clinkers from coals that get near the water jacket and don't burn up......


 
deerefanatic
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Post by deerefanatic » Sat. Dec. 27, 2008 8:54 am

Well, I guess I was wrong..... The boiler was not hopper fed..... It's just that the firebox was that small. :)

They make some larger hand-fed boilers... After talking with me, the gentleman said that they have a 450,000 BTU stove that if I was burning bituminous with my heat-loads would probably last for 12 hours at least.... It had a 24 x 48 firbox (rectangular, vertically oriented) he said...........

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