Can't Believe I Had to Relite My Stove!!!

 
User avatar
blrman07
Member
Posts: 2383
Joined: Mon. Sep. 27, 2010 3:39 pm
Location: Tupelo Mississippi

Post by blrman07 » Fri. May. 22, 2015 8:22 pm

0522152010.jpg
.JPG | 77.9KB | 0522152010.jpg
Home before dark so I did some hunter gathering for small stuff to get a wood fire going. It feel pretty good right now. I worked security in Knoebels Amusement Park for 4 years and I remember a couple of Memorial Days that were down right cold. I just pushed spring a little too hard and it pushed back!!!

Oh well I have the Vigi that will burn coal or wood. Nice wood fire going and at least the cat is happy.


 
User avatar
windyhill4.2
Member
Posts: 6072
Joined: Fri. Nov. 22, 2013 2:17 pm
Location: Jonestown,Pa.17038
Stoker Coal Boiler: 1960 EFM520 installed in truck box
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Crane 404 with variable blower
Coal Size/Type: 404-nut, 520 rice ,anthracite for both

Post by windyhill4.2 » Fri. May. 22, 2015 8:48 pm

Nice, Rev. We kinda wish for the radiant stove heat,but no time with our shop work load to mess around with a hand fed stove right now. The EFM handles the job fine via the heat exchanger. Another low 40's* tonite again,summer will revisit :) next week.

 
User avatar
blrman07
Member
Posts: 2383
Joined: Mon. Sep. 27, 2010 3:39 pm
Location: Tupelo Mississippi

Post by blrman07 » Sat. May. 23, 2015 5:52 am

Wood fire lasted all night. Got up this morning May 23 and it is 37 OAT and 67 inside. I'll take it!!! Put a couple of logs on the glowing coals, gave it some air and it fired right off. Momma is happy....our 18 year old cat is happy. With those two happy I am estatic :P

 
User avatar
windyhill4.2
Member
Posts: 6072
Joined: Fri. Nov. 22, 2013 2:17 pm
Location: Jonestown,Pa.17038
Stoker Coal Boiler: 1960 EFM520 installed in truck box
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Crane 404 with variable blower
Coal Size/Type: 404-nut, 520 rice ,anthracite for both

Post by windyhill4.2 » Sat. May. 23, 2015 9:14 am

Sounds good Rev.,it is good to keep those around us happy so that we can be happier too . :) We left our t-stat off overnite,went from 74* inside last nite to 68* at 6 a/m,outside low of 40* ,turned the t-stat on & the EFM warmed the house up to 74* again. Looks like we might need a bit of heat tomorrow a/m again & then we go to summer time temps.

 
User avatar
davidmcbeth3
Member
Posts: 8505
Joined: Sun. Jun. 14, 2009 2:31 pm
Coal Size/Type: nut/pea/anthra

Post by davidmcbeth3 » Sun. May. 24, 2015 3:27 am

windyhill4.2 wrote:Sounds good Rev.,it is good to keep those around us happy so that we can be happier too . :) We left our t-stat off overnite,went from 74* inside last nite to 68* at 6 a/m,outside low of 40* ,turned the t-stat on & the EFM warmed the house up to 74* again. Looks like we might need a bit of heat tomorrow a/m again & then we go to summer time temps.
Then off to Chile, down south .. should be warm, right?

Image

 
User avatar
windyhill4.2
Member
Posts: 6072
Joined: Fri. Nov. 22, 2013 2:17 pm
Location: Jonestown,Pa.17038
Stoker Coal Boiler: 1960 EFM520 installed in truck box
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Crane 404 with variable blower
Coal Size/Type: 404-nut, 520 rice ,anthracite for both

Post by windyhill4.2 » Sun. May. 24, 2015 10:26 am

We had 38* this a/m , 81* forecast high today.

 
User avatar
SWPaDon
Member
Posts: 9857
Joined: Sun. Nov. 24, 2013 12:05 pm
Location: Southwest Pa.
Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Clayton 1600M
Coal Size/Type: Bituminous
Other Heating: Oil furnace

Post by SWPaDon » Sun. May. 24, 2015 10:41 pm

windyhill4.2 wrote:We had 38* this a/m , 81* forecast high today.
Welcome to Pennsyltucky........heat in the morining, air conditioning in the afternoon :)


 
User avatar
blrman07
Member
Posts: 2383
Joined: Mon. Sep. 27, 2010 3:39 pm
Location: Tupelo Mississippi

Post by blrman07 » Mon. May. 25, 2015 5:49 am

Night before I had a wood fire going and it got to 36. Last night it was 70 and we had the AC going in the bedroom. Gotta love Pennsylvania. The only state I have lived in where you get Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall all in the same day. :shock:

I cut more wood yesterday just in case. I don't trust the calendar telling me its supposed to be warm now. I am stocked up on four sources of fuel for heating. We have wood, coal, oil, and pro pain. We have two window air conditioners in the windows and a portable one ton AC unit ready to bring up from the basement. We have lamp oil in case of a power outage and charcoal to cook with in the grill.

I'm ready for virtually anything except the proverbial plague of locust. It that happens all bets are off. :D

 
User avatar
just peter
Member
Posts: 222
Joined: Sun. Nov. 20, 2011 3:22 pm
Location: North Holland, The Netherlands.
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Weso 225 C3, Susler Altan, Wasseralfingen 440, Susler Altan
Coal Size/Type: bituminous coal,

Post by just peter » Sun. May. 31, 2015 2:48 pm

And now it is 31 may and I am allso still with the stove burning.
The last three weeks its only in the evening but, it should be spring, and I ain't see or feel it.

:mad:

Peter

 
User avatar
Smokeyja
Member
Posts: 1997
Joined: Mon. Nov. 21, 2011 6:57 pm
Location: Richmond, VA.
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood #6 baseheater, Richmond Advance Range, WarmMorning 414a x2
Coal Size/Type: Nut / Anthracite
Other Heating: none
Contact:

Post by Smokeyja » Sun. May. 31, 2015 4:14 pm

Sounds like you guys really got a spring this year. It's been in the 80's/90's the entire month of May. If anyone would like some heat you guys can take 20 degrees from me . I don't like summer .

 
User avatar
Photog200
Member
Posts: 2063
Joined: Tue. Feb. 05, 2013 7:11 pm
Location: Fulton, NY
Baseburners & Antiques: Colonial Clarion cook stove, Kineo #15 base burner & 2 Geneva Oak Andes #517's
Coal Size/Type: Blaschak Chestnut
Other Heating: Electric Baseboard

Post by Photog200 » Mon. Jun. 01, 2015 6:22 am

It was 88℉ here on Saturday and then a storm front came through and yesterday's high was in the 50's. Rained all day yesterday and is still raining this morning. Started the stove up again with a wood fire last night.

Randy

 
User avatar
Sunny Boy
Member
Posts: 25567
Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 1:40 pm
Location: Central NY
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Tue. Jun. 02, 2015 6:02 am

With the same cold, rain, and damp chill here, ...plus looking like it'd be a couple of days just to get back up to the 70's, I finally gave in yesterday afternoon and relit the range.

And since Melissa loves to cook on it, it put a smile on her face, too.

Paul

 
User avatar
hotblast1357
Member
Posts: 5657
Joined: Mon. Mar. 10, 2014 10:06 pm
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

Post by hotblast1357 » Tue. Jun. 02, 2015 6:05 am

Only got too 53 here yesterday, touched off the oil furnace last night too get the chill out, can't wait to get the boiler up and running! It also looks like another day or two before it gets up to the 70's again.

 
User avatar
blrman07
Member
Posts: 2383
Joined: Mon. Sep. 27, 2010 3:39 pm
Location: Tupelo Mississippi

Post by blrman07 » Tue. Jun. 02, 2015 6:37 am

50 here this morning with rain, drizzle, grey, yucky, bone penetrating damp. Lit the VC 2310 last night on some wood and damped it down about as far as it would go without choking it out. Got up this morning to a nice bed of coals and some gentle heat coming off the stove.

I have very nice wood smoke coating inside the stove now. Best part is the inside climate is very nice. The old joints still ache but all I have to do is look at the little wood fire and I feel mentally better if not physically. :D

 
User avatar
stovepipemike
Member
Posts: 1225
Joined: Sun. Jun. 15, 2008 11:53 am
Location: Morgantown ,Penna

Post by stovepipemike » Tue. Jun. 02, 2015 7:11 am

Larry your weather description is identical to what I have out the back door. I thought the faithful Cawley wood stove in the living room would be at ambient until at least mid September. My view has changed as of this morning so.......... that click and snap that will happen here shortly will be that highly recognizable sound of a famous Pennsylvania manufactured lighter doing its job flawlessly as usual. What could be better to compliment a stove collection than a lighter collection? Actually a lighter is a miniature stove if you think hard enough!! :D :D Mike


Post Reply

Return to “Hand Fired Coal Stoves & Furnaces Using Anthracite”