Most Popular Coal Sizes - Polling Question
- stovepipemike
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I voted for buck. The Keystoker can use either buck or rice but since I have been on a buckkick the last few years , I will continue on with it this year. All bins are empty and I can't do a thing about that until Lehigh opens the gate for small user sales sometime in September if I recall correctly. I like Lehigh. Mike
- Doby
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- Location: Elysburg PA
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Alaska Kast console and Alaska Channing III
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
- Other Heating: oil but not much
I voted rice that is typically used in alaska stoves although some have mixed buck with rice in these stoves with success, interestingly I bought a used alaska last year and the fellow through in 10 bags of what he thought was rice, it was barley. No wonder there were so many fines under the grate and he could not get the stove to throw heat, oh well works great now and I used the barley mixed with rice just to get rid of it
- StokerDon
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Your right one the money there Richard. The Yellow Flame works GREAT with barley, the Losch does to. My coal supplier has no demand for barley or buck. He burns barley in HIS Losch though!!! They don't want to deal with dlivering barley, it gets quite messy.Richard S. wrote:Buck and Barley should be very easy to obtain since they are not in demand, especially the barley. If your dealer is not stocking it they probably just don't want to deal with it. The buck can be crushed for rice but they don't want to do that because they end up with a lot waste with barley and smaller.... The barley is usually cheaperStokerDon wrote:Unfortunately, I had to vote Rice. It's not my favorite, but I can't get Buckwheat or Barly down here so, Rice it is!
That boiler you have is similar to Losch? That is really the only one I'm aware of that worked well with barley. I did have a few customers that had efm's using it.
I can get buck or barley from another supplier, they are 30 miles further away though. That makes it cost a good bit more than the local rice so, no deal there.
-Don
- Jeanie
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- Location: parkersburg wv 26101
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hand Fed Coal Stove Hitzer 983.
- Coal Size/Type: Nut coal and stove coal.
- Other Heating: Heat pump
I use nut but like to mix stove coal with it. Love that mixture.Lightning wrote:I use a Nut/Stove size mix but voted for Nut.
- deepwoods
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- Location: north central pa.
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Hitzer 50-93 & DS Machine Newstyle Champion
- Coal Size/Type: nut (so far)
- Other Heating: Ruud propane forced air system
My coal sort of comes that way from my present supplier. About every 10th or so piece is noticeably larger than nut, it works fine in my hand fed stoves. In fact the Hitzer 50-93 seems exceptionally controllable on this particular diet.Jeanie wrote:I use nut but like to mix stove coal with it. Love that mixture.Lightning wrote:I use a Nut/Stove size mix but voted for Nut.
- Sunny Boy
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- 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
Prefer to use just nut.
Seems better suited to my attitude and heredity.
Paul
Seems better suited to my attitude and heredity.
Paul
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- Keepaeyeonit
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- Location: Northeast Ohio.( Grand river wine country )
- Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood #8
- Coal Size/Type: Nut & stove
- Other Heating: 49 year old oil furnace, and finally a new heat pump
With the Hitzer I used nut only now with the Glenwood I use stove with some nut mixed in, I am going to try only nut soon and will probably use nut only next year( just because my local dealer doesn't carry stove and he the only one that has a high lift) but I would guess that a hand job would be nut and a stoker would be rice!
- thegreatone
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1981 EFM DF520
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Currently: Hitzer 30-95 Previously:TLC2000, Hitzer 82, Warm Morning 400A
- Coal Size/Type: rice/nut
I voted for rice but I also use nut. I will probably use 6 or 7 ton of rice and 3 ton of nut.