When Do You Light Your Stove?
- 2001Sierra
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- Location: Wynantskill NY, 10 miles from Albany
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Keystoker 90 Chimney vent
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
- Other Heating: Buderus Oil Boiler 3115-34
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.
- hotblast1357
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- Location: Peasleeville NY
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1984 Eshland S260 coal gun
- Coal Size/Type: Lehigh anthracite pea
- Other Heating: air source heat pump, oil furnace
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
- davidmcbeth3
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- Coal Size/Type: nut/pea/anthra
March is when I fire it up ... seems to warm up the whole Earth slowly...
- freetown fred
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- Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut
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.
- northernmainecoal
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- Location: Aroostook County, Maine
- Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 520
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 30-95
- Baseburners & Antiques: Herald Baseheater #6
- Coal Size/Type: Rice/Nut/Stove
You're supposed to let your coal fire go out?!?
- BPatrick
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- Coal Size/Type: Stove Coal
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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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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.
- freetown fred
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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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- Location: Chester, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
No need for a coal fire in hell.final restin place.
- freetown fred
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CUTE, ya old reprobate
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- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
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- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
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.
- Rob R.
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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.
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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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.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?
- stovepipemike
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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!! Mike