When Do You Light Your Stove?

 
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Post by 2001Sierra » Wed. Aug. 27, 2014 10:33 pm

Usually 2nd or 3rd week in October. The Keystoker 90 can throttle down to pretty low output without any out fires to be concerned about.


 
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Post by hotblast1357 » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 6:14 am

Thanks everyone for the replies, I'm more less looking for a rough idea when to have everything ready with the stove, I'm thinking probably by the end of September I'll be burning wood at night to keep the chill out

 
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Post by davidmcbeth3 » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 6:27 am

March is when I fire it up ... seems to warm up the whole Earth slowly...

 
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Post by freetown fred » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 7:01 am

Strikes me that a bunch of you have other then just coal as a heating source????????? I know if I waited till March, they'd be carryin my old frozen ass down to the local final restin place. :clap: toothy

 
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Post by northernmainecoal » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 7:11 am

You're supposed to let your coal fire go out?!?

 
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Post by BPatrick » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 2:30 pm

Preach the Truth Rev. Larry, Rule of thumb, if momma ain't happy, nobody's happy. When we start to get a chill in the house and some cooler temps that will last more than a day I'll fire it up. If not, I'll just fire up the furnace for a little while. Once the sun comes out it warms things up and then I don't need the furnace. I like to fire up the furnace every so often as we never run it and propane furnaces need a little time on them or they have troubles. My propane company is pissed because I don't use any propane and they want me to buy the tanks. I like to have to light some coal fires, even if they go out, early in the season, because it becomes the 1 match club once Oct. sets in.

 
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Post by Bruce M » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 6:19 pm

blrman07 wrote:When Momma says "It's getting chilly in here."

Rev. Larry
This is always the right answer^^^


 
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Post by ddahlgren » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 2:26 am

Ah the joy of being single, a fire when I am cold and if spring or fall a small wood fire will take the chill off with little effort. Looking forward switching to coal this winter though did some calcs and looking a bit sketchy to be candid. On a 12 hour schedule with a 20 lb. load it looks like 16000 btu/hr. at best so may have to go to 8 hours and 60 lbs. a day and did not figure that into the budget. I was hoping for 40 to be honest.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 6:46 am

All them thar stats are pretty cute, but we both know the proof is in the pudding dd! That old CRANE might just surprise ya. I'm sure you've mentioned it, but what's your house layout?

 
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Post by coalnewbie » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 7:02 am

final restin place. :clap: toothy
No need for a coal fire in hell.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 7:05 am

CUTE, ya old reprobate ;)

 
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Post by coalnewbie » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 7:09 am

It always seems to be mid Sept for lighting time. AnthraKing - coal-trol min=2 just takes the chill off and we move North from there. Cuff season is when I just love the controlability of my stove.

 
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Post by Rob R. » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 7:19 am

I am one of the crazy guys that burns coal year-round for hot water. thermostat is set on 70, ready for action.

Back in my hand fired days I usually didn't fire up until sometime in November. One time I tried it in October and roasted us for about a week.

 
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Post by ddahlgren » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 7:35 am

freetown fred wrote:All them thar stats are pretty cute, but we both know the proof is in the pudding dd! That old CRANE might just surprise ya. I'm sure you've mentioned it, but what's your house layout?
The house layout is not good but has worked just fine with wood for quite a while. The stove is located in a sunroom off the living room/dining room. It is a typical 1874 house that is broken up into separate rooms. I use a window fan blowing into the sunroom from dining room at floor level and it works pretty well. It would be close to impossible to locate the stove at a more central location due to the layout stair wells etc. The chimney only has 1 flue for the HW boiler. Getting access to it from the first floor is close to impossible as well because it is in the kitchen right next to a doorway on one side and kitchen cabinets on another. I really don't want an illegal stove connection with that single flue.

 
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Post by stovepipemike » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 8:20 am

I always find that the best policy for light off is when I get "the look" , so I never really know when that might happen. Pays to be prepared at all times. I learned that in Boy Scouts many ,many years ago. I even have some waterproof matches left from the Boy Scout Jamborees!! :D Mike


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