Heating With Coal. How to Start a Coal Fire
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- Our wood stove can burn either wood or coal. In this video Kevin will teach you our method for starting and maintaining an anthracite coal fire.
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I just bought a bag of coal. I'm glad I watched this video. I think I will buy more coal.
Hey I'm from Pennsylvania! Coal is king here ! I see that bag of coal is from our area !!! Am in Williamsport PA
here in ky our saying is "Coal Keeps The Lights On!"
We still have a coal bin that we get deliveries for in the Pocono hills
I think coal is one of the most overlooked heating options for the home. But it sure seems like it works wonderfully.
3 million individual users in Poland
I swear I thought he was gonna say "The weather outside is frightful"
Sounded like he was gonna say it alright....
LOL I thought so too. I think he thought about it and at the last minute didn't. Sarah could have been behind the camera shaking her head mouthing, "Don't say it"
totally missed that opportunity...
The weather outside is weather
especially with Santa on the bag!
Having been in the coal industry since 1972 and having burned coal in my living room stove since 1987 you can say I know a thing or two about coal. I also live about 120 miles from the anthracite coal fields of eastern PA. We have a "Russo Coal / Wood Stove", (the EPA will now not allow the manufacturer to state both wood and coal but either coal or wood, though the design is still the same). We supplement our domestic space heating with coal and wood. About the only thing that #2 oil is used for is domestic hot water for personal washing and showering; we burn wood from onset of cold weather, usually late September, until about Thanksgiving then we use coal until about St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) when we switch back to wood until the end of the heating season. Our stove takes about an initial 20 pound charge (load) and can run for 24 hours with the addition of another 20 lbs. over that period. If I "bank" the coals frugally I can get as much as a 36 hour burn on 40lbs.
At any rate the difference with burning with coal is coal needs a bottom draft that comes up through the grates an into the coals this forms a bottom layer of thin ash, then the burning coal, then the addition of additional charges as the coal burns. Leaving a corner empty does not help the fire since coal burns from below, so it is best to start with a few well burnt logs, then adding coal in layers until you see the fire coming up through the new layers of black coal. The flames will start off blue as it is burning off methane and other flammable gases; it will then turn purple as the yellow flames begin to take over; then the entire load-bed will begin to glow as the flames die away. This is the hottest part of the burn. It takes me less than an hour to reach this point and it is a delight to watch. At this time it is almost pure carbon burning, hence, the lack of smoke with anthracite coal. Bituminous coal is a much younger coal and hence has more impurities therefore smokes more, thus the name bituminous, as bitumin is Latin for smoke.
Coal burns with an even heat and requires less tending than wood heat. In my opinion, coal is best. I've also burned bituminous coal, which does smoke but its about the same as wood smoke; and I've also burned coke, which is a pure carbon product by which bituminous coal is baked to form what is comparable to wood charcoal but much, much hotter; this is called coke. All burn well and provide much needed heat at a much better cost than #2 heating oil or gas. We use between 1 and 2 tons of coal per year and approximately 1 cord of hardwood.
Very informative thanks
What do you pay for a 40 lb bag? In 1986, the last time I operated coal fired boilers in Minneapolis, it was $105.00 a ton delivered in 20 ton loads. Kentucky Derby, was a very hard, very hot burning Virginia coal. With automatic draft mechanical stokers KD coal produced 14kbtu per pound.
Richardofdanbury coke is toxic as shit. Don’t bring that into your home
I'm not sure you understand the coke I'm speaking of is nothing more than processed coal, which consolidates it into almost pure carbon. As to toxic it is no more toxic than other carbon products including vehicle exhausts, wood burning, gas combustion, anthracite and bituminous coal combustion.
Individually, the cost in Lower New England is about $6.50 pre 40# bag. We burn about 1.5 tons per winter and the cost has consistently increased the last delivery in November, 2018 was about $400 including delivery. 14kbtu is exceptional as most coal is between 12,000 to 12,500 btu/lb.
I grew up with Granny burning coal! She would add coal first thing in the morning after she shook down the ashes from the coals of the night fire! Then about lunch time she would shake it down and add more coal if needed. Her stove was a tall round stove that opened on top and had a little for at the bottom with adjustable vents. She would go get coal by the pickup bed full and kept it on the back porch end that was closed in on three sides and every evening she would bring big chunks that would fit thru the top lid and a few smaller pieces that would catch fire easily! It smelled so good burning! Good memories!
We had coal at home until a couple of years after I moved out in 1979. The biggest problem was getting residential delivery, so my parents switched to gas. I remember warming up frozen feet by the stove after being out skating.
What does coal smell like when it burns?
It smells like a coal fired freight train.😂
My dad was born in 1910 and he lived with his grandparents he use to tell us stories about walking the railroad tracks with a bucket to pick up coal that had fallen off the coal trains on the sides of the tracks
@@mitchdenner9743 as long as it burning there is relatively no smell but it has a sulphur smell if the draft is low or if it get warm outside and it will let you know that is a sign of CO forming
That’s what I love about my neck of the woods. When my old relatives used coal we would just hike up the hill and pick some out of the ridge lol
I still have my dads old pot belly stove that we used to burn coal in. Haven't used it in 40 years or more. Back then we used to be able to buy coal in bulk at any hardware store. Times have changed.
those old stoves really bring me back to my childhood. My Aunt and Uncle up in Pennsylvania had one basement where Me and my cousin would play and sleep when i visited. On those cold winter nights, we were soooo toasty warm with a nice coal fire down there with us.
you just brought me some nice nostalgia, sir..
thanks my dad kelp warm with coal as a kid .back in the 40 s they were so poor they had to jump trains to throw off coal to keep warm over night.and ate peanut butter for 8 weeks to stay alive.
Geez thats insane my grandmas dad did the same thing he used to paint the numbers on the side of the trains and would sneak a few pieces in his sack to take home everyday aswell, you never will hear of that style of life no more
Thanks for sharing! I remember my Mam maw having a pot belly stove, but too young to remember the details. This will come in handy when we finally get to Missouri next month! Thanks for great content! Blessings.
That final look at the glowing coals was beautiful. Very nice video.
I just wanted to thank you for this very helpful video. We heat with rice coal, with a feeder coal stove, but are considering going to a coal stove that doesn't require electricity. I really enjoy watching you two as you make your videos. Loved the greenhouse vid too! May God bless you as you help others with your videos!
Rice coal?
I've used coal for a lot of my 68 years. In a cook stove, in open grates and wood/coal stoves. It seems easy, if you grew up doing it. But it is something you have to learn. My earliest memory and the first way I started fires and the method I still use today is this. I have a container with a lid. Fill it full of dry corn cobs; in the absence of corn cobs use a good quality natural charcoal. I pour the container about half full of coal oil; that is kerosene NOT gasoline NOT diesel NOT lighter fluid. The corn cobs soak it up. Clean out your stove. Lay 2 or 3 corn cobs down in the grate of the stove. Put a half dozen or so smaller pieces of coal around and on top. Put a couple of larger pieces on it or snugged up close. Light the corn cobs. In a few minutes you can slowly add more coal until it is as big a mound of coal as you want. At night, we put a few scoops of ashes on the fire to bank it down. All we have to do the next day is shake out most of the ashes and feed the fire.
For those in the UK "coal oil" and kerosene is "paraffin" not to be confused with the liquid wax the US has.
Thank you for that!
I’m going to try it.
Great demo! I've just recently been learning about coal stoves. Seeing this process made things much clearer for me. Thank you. - All the best. ~ Theresa
I grew up in a house with a Rayburn coal fire, and like yours, it had a glass door but it also had a back boiler for the radiators and hot water. It was about half the size of yours and 2 cwt, (224lb)of coal lasted us a week.
It never went out from early Sept to the end of April. We just took a little ash out everyday, and kept topping up the coals.
One big difference is the size of our coals, most were fist sized. We lit it with firelighter blocks, and it only took 10 min to get a good fire started.
It's good to see how folks do things in different parts of the world. We've come a long way from holding a sheet of newspaper in front of an open fire so that it would draw. If you left it a few seconds too long you were holding a burning sheet of newspaper in the middle of your lounge 🤣
I was living aboard an old 50' wooden boat and we went from Florida to Boston one year, and stayed until October. It got very cold. The little ship actually had a little fireplace, and we got the great idea to burn coal in it. I found a source of anthracite and went and bought a bag. I did pretty much as in this video, got the coal started, it burned very nicely. No idea if the fireplace was designed to burn coal! A built-in fan blew air from around the firebox into the cabins, very nice, warm all night. The next morning: soot all over the boat and boats next to us. No one was living on the boats, but the dock master and marina staff weren't very happy with us. I know it was anthracite, just like my grandpa used in Long Island.
This was almost 40 years ago, but I think I remember having trouble getting the initial bed of coals going, and adding more wood. That might account for the soot, but the stuff was kind of sticky, I remember it all over the charley noble (fitting over the top of the stovepipe). The fire did last all night, even though the firebox was rather small.
Looking in from England - I love my multi fuel stove and burnt wood for a few years and then I discovered coal - so much better and much more heat.
This takes me back to my childhood. I can smell the coal burning in the big ole stove that stood in my Grandma and Grandpa’s house when I was a little girl. The cold air had the smell of coal smoke. Thank you for the memories. I am Not far from you in Southern Illinois.
We bought a house with an old wood/coal stove. Have really struggled with using coal, but when it gets going... Wow. Will try again with these tips.
I remember the old days when we had a wood and coal furnace in the basement of our house. Thanks for another great video.
Great video! Fantastic job explaining and keeping it interesting. Greetings from Southern Missouri. Using a pellet stove this year and I’m actually impressed but really missing that wood / coal burning experience.
Finally gets to the part you WANT to see at 4:59 minutes into the video. Good and informative after that. Thumbs up!
Thank you for your video. Right on the money started my stove as you described. Had it up and running in no time. Thank again.
Absolute best heat, was raised on it in NYC, had a Belgium Parlor stove in my first home....great!
We have a coal furnace that heats our 7000 square feet house. Best heat ever and super cheap compared to natural gas in our area. Takes a bit of daily maintenance to fill the stoker and empty the clinkers from the firebox but it’s no big deal.
Really great video. I have only heard about coal stoves and how they burned so hot...
I never saw a coal fire until this video.
Thank you for taking the time to post a really clear, informative and interesting video. If I get to move next year I will differently be looking for a wood and coal stove.
👍❤🙏
This was a great video thank you. I always wondered what was involved in getting a coal fire going. My next wood stove I will make sure it is designed to burn coal as well.
I think that by keeping one corner free of coal you allow air to come up into the stove, above the coal to form sort of a secondary burn. My coal furnace, a Holland, has little "chimneys" cast into the fire pot to allow air to come up above the coal. You can see the gases burn when the air comes in contact with it. It creates a more efficient burn.
Allowing once corner to be exposed for burning makes sure gasses coming from the new coal piled on top will burn. It keeps explosions from happening where a huge puff of gas above the coal will suddenly ignite and shoot out your chimney (and backfire into your house).
We had a huge coal burning furnace in the 60's , still love the smell.
Heated with coal + wood growing up ,dont need any practice but thanks for the offer ,allways hot +dry you cant beat it..cant beat it.
thanks for sharing this valuable advice and information on Heating your house With Coal !! Very interesting
Liked your how to start a coal burning fire on your wood/coal stove. I learned something. I'm a new subscriber. Thanks for sharing your video.👍
Thank you for sharing this; I learned quite a lot about using coal fires for heating homes.
When I was a kid, our house was heated by a big coal furnace down in the basement. Great heat, long lasting fire. We had an automatic coal feeder that used small pieces of coal that were fed into the furnace via an auger. Unfortunately, the fire box developed cracks in it....and coal smoke and soot would get into the heat jacket and then into the heat ducts....the house smelled like sulfur and coat dust. The old furnace was replaced with a large wood/coal stove in the living room. It's been many a year since I left home....pushing 4 decades I guess...and to this day, the smell of coal smoke turns my stomach. Wood smoke however....love it.
My 1929 house in Cleveland Ohio still has the big cast iron coal door into the basement. I think here it was used in boilers for radiators not a center stove. Yea it basically was dumped into a big corner box in your basement by the coal man by the Ton.
Thanks for this video! 3/4 of the videos I see the people are lighting charcoal, not actual mineral coal fires. Thanks for showing us the real deal!
awesome! glad people are doing this still.
Well done and helpful. Wood is king for me as I live in rural Ontario.
I want to thank you for doing this video.
I want a pot belly stove, but it works with coal, and I wondered if they were referring to charcoal. I've never seen any other kind.
So this video is very important to me.
Thanks again.
I use match light charcoal to start my coal stove. It is quick and easy. Just put a nice size mound of charcoal in the center and pile coal all around it and light her up. Start sprinkling coal on top after the charcoal starts dying down. I have a D&S 1500 circulator. Best stove I ever bought! Running it at 425 and uses 5 gallon bucket a day.
nice video , I used to live 5 miles from where that coal was made , actually worked for their competitor
Coal is mined, not made.
Good job on your video. If you want your stove to heat up quicker, leave the ash pan door open for more air while layering. Once the fire is established, you can shut it. 80 lbs of anthy will burn a long time. DS makes some nice stoves.
40 lbs of this type of coal is $84 on Amazon. Spending $168 for 12 hours of heating a 1400 sf house sounds rather expensive to me.
@@vanessashimoni6548 Funny stuff. Amazon? Tell them to pound sand. 40lb bags here in New England, (an expensive area) costs $10 a bag. and that's horrible compared to the past 10 yrs when it was 6 bucks a bag. Coal when used correctly will outheat any other medium. The automatic furnaces are easier, but also costlier too. As for pellets? Ha, don't make me laugh.
Very interesting! My grandparents and parents have burned their share of coal over the years. Our family has burned wood due to the fact that we bought land that had a surplus of timber. Unfortunately, we are moving to a new property that has few trees and wondered how we could maintain our stoves and fireplaces without electric or propane. This is a great idea! Thanks!
Go pay a company to deliver wood to your property. Ez
Wow Kevin. You should do an updated version of this. I never knew about it. Blessings.
Keep a bucket of ashes handy so if the coal starts burning too hot, you can shovel ashes over the coal to slow the burning.
Great tip! Never heard of that but will make sure I try it next time we have a coal fire going. Thanks!
Jim Holmes , isn't that called "banking the fire?"
Diana Nore I read my Father's book after he had passed away. He wrote of this back in the Great Depression, To save on the cost of coal. In the 1930's a ton of coal cost about $3. but in 1930 $3 was A Lot of money.
Jim Holmes Correct, my Pop worked the WPA for $1 a day during the Depression/Dust Bowl years = 3 days labor to heat their home for a month plus. I'm 70 & have been burning wood for quite some time & am thinking about going back to using coal bc it is readily available from some of the old independent miners around here in S CO
Hmm, ok, but I think that's why you should have a barometric damper. My stove manufacturer (Penn something) warns about this. If the fire gets too hot, a properly adjusted damper will open and automatically cool down the flue, reduce the draft, and cool down the burn. Mine works great, but it sticks open sometimes, so check it before you lose your burn.
Very informative thank you sir,I grew up around mountains and that type of live lots of people have firewood stoves I always wondered about coal and that it burned clean and burned better than wood and lasted alot longer,so now thanks to this,my next fireplace will be like yours,burn both,my friends and I still burn firewood at our hangout every weekend, in his pot belly stove,been using same stove for well over 30 + years, we would be very unhappy without it lol,
My inlaws lived in the Lehigh Valley in PA until 2003. They used to have a dump truck full of coal delivered to their coal bin in the back yard every september. Said it was abt $800 a year.
Wow!! That is more than I paid for oil in my 3000 square foot house around that time.
My grandma and my in laws had coal stoves. They bought it in truck loads. By the ton I believe. I live in Pa - what used to be big coal country , but much anymore.
I grew up in West Virginia and we used wood and coal. Had a cooking stove in the kitchen and stove in livingroom. We all had to learn to start a fire. Best heat ever!
But people say it's part of GLOBAL WARMING!!!!
England here.
What you have there (the bucket), is called a coal scuttle here in England. Maybe it is in America too?
The trick is - learning to take the bucket by the swinging handle (left hand if you're right-handed) and the rim of the base with your dominant hand and tossing a whole bucket full (scuttle-full) into the gaping jaws of the fire - when the doors are swung fully open of course.
You have to do that and empty a full bucket onto the fire and not spill a single piece!
If you get that right you also get a nice sloping pile of coal rising up from front to back.
Almost everyone used to burn coal here in England, even up to as recently as the 1970s or even 80s. As kids we had to learn how to build coal fires and toss buckets of coal on there ... and negotiate the way to the yard with screaming-hot metal pans full of hot ashes. It was regularly a chore for small boys.
Anthracite is good stuff. Burns virtually smokeless once it gets going. It does need a continuous air draft, though not an excessively strong one, to keep burning compared to non-anthracite coals (including modern 'smokeless' coal) which can self-sustain a burn with almost minimal draft. Anthracite burns hot and lasts longer than regular coals.
When we lit fires we didn't really wait long at all (or not at all) before putting the coal on. We would scrunch up into tight(ish) balls, individual sheets of newspaper, about 20 in all ( a full newspaper?), then cover the newspaper with about at least a dozen sticks of kindling wood - say 1 inch square section sticks - a good couple of handfuls laid cross-weave on top of the newspaper. Then you can put a good shovelful of coal on top, even before lighting the newspaper at the bottom, peeping out through the sticks.
Alternatively, light the newspaper and wait for the sticks to begin to crackle, then toss a full scuttle-full of coal on top. Don't spill a single piece - your Mum will tick you off for that.
I agree that anthracite might need a bit more burn on the sticks to get some red embers forming before adding it.
Good stuff anyway.
Excellent post, thank you.
That was actually quite interesting!! Never have used coal and knew nothing about it!!
Great video and info! This certainly would be great for airbnb rental units where user error or inexperience could make a wood fire dangerous.
No, not great for "newbies" at all. A coal stove can get SO HOT if too much air is allowed in, the house can go to 80 degrees and the stove can crack.
Thank you! This video was a big help. Answered a lot of questions. God bless.
Thank you so much! My new ‘old’ home in VT has two coal stoves, and this was really helpful. Thank you for all the added details you share in your video!
+Heart & Soul Apothecary Great! It's good to know that others are interested in heating with coal. We love it!
Very interesting. I learned a lot from this video. I had no clue to nothing about burning coal. Now I know what type of stove to have. Love this video. Kevin this is a very valuable video. Great job, and thank you so much for sharing this.
Brilliant video. Thank you very much. Greetings from England UK.
coal smells good n nice n toasty. my dad when i was little got pallet crates delivered. stay warm🍻
Great looking stove! The fire does look beautiful!!!
Stay True Warriors I agree,it's great picture,the girl does look beautiful!
These temps in MO are frightful...we have a fire place that I am thankful for but we are burning thru the wood like crazy....we so need one of those stoves...HAD NO CLUE about the coal...makes great sense!! Thank you!!
We purchased our stove from Missouri Stove & Chimney out of Sparta, MO. They were great to work with.
The standard fireplace is very inefficient as most of the heat goes straight up the flue. An insert or modification would save elbow grease, for sure. New masonry cores with a mass will burn sometimes 1/10th of the fuel as even a wood stove!
Agreed. It does have a blower so that helps, but an upgrade is needed. Never heard of new masonry cores with a mass...do tell.
I'm in Ava and drive through Sparta about 3 times a week... do they sell coal? The only other place I could find was Tractor Supply in Hollister.
Definitely get a stove insert for your fireplace. FB Marketplace is a good place to find used stoves and inserts at decent prices. Wood burning stoves can burn coal, as long as the stove is made of heavy steel with fire bricks in place, or cast iron. The height of the firebox has to be twice as high as the depth of coal used. That's so the gases can burn off and be efficient. If you plan to have a depth of coal to be 4", then the empty space above the coal must be at least 8". That's why the old time Victorian stoves were cylindrical and tall. Cylindrical stoves took up less space and the taller they were, the deeper the bed of coal could be. You should be fine with a modern day stove insert of heavy steel and fire bricks.
Great tutorial thanks...I like those herbs you have drying there.
I just bought my bag of coal I honestly didn't know where to buy it but Tractor Supply carries coal. Thanks for the video be good on those cold nights and I won't have to keep getting up all night to put a log on the fire. Thanks for the video.
No problem 👍
I really want a stove like yours but I was afraid I would do it wrong and burn the house down. I learned a lot watching this thanks
I work for Warrior Met Coal #7 mine. Our Blue Creek coal is used for making steel. Its ash content is often less than 8%. It could make that heater glow red!
AWESOME stove and video. LEARNED ALOT. THANKS
I have been to that coal breaker it’s pretty cool wow those bags make it far
Thank you for this. I've been operating a wood fired cookstove for about 8 years now, and we're switching to a coal fired cook stove this weekend. It's a new Heco 420 cook stove. It's going to be alearning curve all over again, and I don't even know how to start a coal fire. I think I've got it now, and I appreciate you taking the time to go over it step by step.
How’s cooking on the cookstove ? I used a glenwood range from the early 1900s on coal and absolutely loved it. Good luck with it
How’s cooking on the cookstove ? I used a glenwood range from the early 1900s on coal and absolutely loved it. Good luck with it
How’s cooking on the cookstove ? I used a glenwood range from the early 1900s on coal and absolutely loved it. Good luck with it
How’s cooking on the cookstove ? I used a glenwood range from the early 1900s on coal and absolutely loved it. Good luck with it
@@libertyanunion I just switched it over to coal heat in the past couple of days. It takes much longer to bring the stove up to cooking and baking temperatures when using coal. In this stove, the coal is much farther from the cooktop than the Glenwood and other antique ranges. Then once it finally gets hot, it can cook you out. So I have to figure out how to adjust. I think if I plan on cooking supper, I have to open the stove up at lunchtime so that it has enough time to reach cooking temperature.
in the city i live, there are either coal burning trains or col hauling trains that still come through several times per week. they scatter large 4-8 inch chunks of coal all over near the tracks.
Thank you so much for making this video. Very informative and well explained. I just bought a vintage coal laundry stove. Not sure how I'll be using it, but this video takes the mystery out of using coal. I checked prices on anthracite coal, by the bag, and it's $3.25 for a 40 lb bag. If it is delivered by truck it costs $97.91 per ton, in 2015. That's 2000 lbs of anthracite coal for $97.91. 2000 lbs divided by 40 lb bag = 50 bags. A ton of coal = 50 bags at a total cost of $97.91 ($1.96/bag X 30 days = $58.80/mo). 50 bags purchased from Lowe's = $162.50 ($3.25/bag X 30 days = $97.50/mo). So, you save $38.70/mo by having it delivered by the ton. Based on using 1 bag per 24 hours.
Thank You breaking the cost down for us. My only other question is regarding the smell of the coal burning. OK or objectionable?
@@victoreous626 I haven't burned any coal, yet. In addition, that price breakdown is off old prices, just so you know. Anthracite nut coal should burn clean without much odor. Bituminous nut coal will be dirty and stinky.
Wow, here in Belgium we pay $480 per ton for anthracite coal !!! ... I''ll just stick with wood :)
@@gratien69 I don't blame you, especially, if wood is free.
Good luck finding a supplier any more as most have shut down when natural gas became popular in the 50 and 60’s
I'm a fireman on a steam locomotive. This is a ritual every 7 days or after a mandatory inspection. We use bitimous (hopefully I spelled that right) which is very messy even when wet and it produces alot of thick black smoke, we could use anthracite but the expense would be out the roof. Great video
Erick Wardwell It’s like burning an oil soaked rag isn’t it 😂
Very informative, thanks for sharing. 👍🏼
The reason it is best to leave a corner open is that coal is a "lazy burner". Unlike firewood, it doesn't work very hard at getting lit. Leaving a corner burning only wood keeps a constant updraft going up the flue, forces the coal to catch fire. If you don't keep the draft going, starting the coal fire can stall out.
I have a 120K BTU Harmon furnace. When I start it up (with firewood) I usually leave some of the firewood burning in the back, as I put in the first layer of coal.
I use 4 tons of PA anthracite every year. Very comfortable heat.
Nice vid.
Awesome video mate.
Thank you.
Great vid! Man I really miss the smell of a coal fire, here in MT (western) there are no coal users anymore.
I used to heat with coal. Finally got tired of cleaning out the ash pans.
Also, starting it up was always a pain. Then I found out that I could shove a heat gun into the coal and zip tie the trigger down for about ten minutes. Then just coax it along for an hour or so.
It did melt the plastic cover off the heat gun, but it still works.
Very good tutorial.
I just bought a Harmon Mark II coal and wood stove so I’m preparing to use it.
I’m completely new to using a coal stove.
Thanks again for this lesson.
Dont make this
Thank you. I learned a lot through your video.
You all rock. I miss the midwest.
We use a Hitzer with the 30- pound hopper. Even though we are literally sitting on millions of tons of Wyoming coal, we burn anthracite from Tractor Supply. I start a few pounds of Match Light charcoal and when it’s cherry red, start loading coal.
I have the same child gate as you, very good with the cat door. Living in the southwest part of NY in the late 50's early 60's you could walk the railroad tracks and get as much coal as you wanted just from what would fall off the coal cars, only bad part of burning coal is the smell never leaves your house, not that I dislike the smell, just that it's always there.
Very nice. Thanks for sharing 😊
Good info, thanks for sharing this.
Great information! Thank you.
Outstanding video. Thank you.
Here in North Eastern, PA where that's mined there are still coal delivery trucks with chutes to fill your basement coal bins or you can head directly to the mine yourself to pick up a dump truck load of coal 😀🔥
I like this, I love the stove, the coal stove.
Very Informative .See you have your oil lamps as well.Way to go
I took a short look into coal heat here in northern nevada, but very little coal is shipped here for stoves, and I didn't feel like really looking around for any company stocking it. Visiting England in the winter, I saw it being sold in bags at gas stations, and you knew when people were burning it as it had a dry oily smell to it. Still interested, but will need to have a stove that I'm using to make it worth it, as it is pellet stoves make more sense out here as you can get pellets by the ton and most any hardware store.
I grew up with coal/wood heat. A sears furnace in the Basement. I've never seen it in a bag before though. I've dug it out if the ground and bought it from mines before though. When I was a kid my dad would let me melt lead and cast muzzleloader bullets and sinkers out of old bullets that I collected.
Thanks for the Video years before it became a popular trend in America I ve had the dream of living off grid and being self sufficient Unfortunately health issues changed my life significantly in my 40s that. Has caused me a fair share of life changing events i have not given up on my dreams and i had always figured that i would use Wood and Coal as my heat source I just found a pretty nice peice of property about 100 acres of land off the beaten path ! It is not completely off grid and has a few buildings on the property that would require Wood and Coal heating so. I turned to You Tube to find out more about Coal heating BTW the property is in a area that was known for its Abundancy of Coal a few years ago and Mining did make up the primary Income of the small towns in the Area It is still a pretty Rural Area the property is located but. There are some modern conveniences like Banks, some stores , and even a local Hardware Store with in a short distance from the land that interests me
great video my grand daddy used to heat with coal.
We had a heatrola and a bucket-a-day when I was a kid, they were great for junk mail, I saw on TV one time a story about a guy who loved to get
junk mail, he would go to the post office every day to get his daily load of junk mail which was bundled up with a string, take the bundles home
open the heater door and toss them in!
Those of us who have run steam locomotives are pretty good at starting coal fires. On another note, I can recall my grandfather having a coal furnace with a stoker. That was in the early 1950’s.
Outstanding info, great vid!
Growing up in western pa my family had a coal burning furnace until the mid 1990’s. No joke. My mom would put cheese cloth over the vents to reduce the amount of coal ash and suet in the house.
Funny to see Blaschak Coal! I deliver pallets to them. You can't beat coal heat! Greetings from Central Pennsylvania!!
Excellent stove!
Really cool video I'm right down the road from you in mtn.grove Missouri
Thanks for this video.
Thank you! Works for a tiny pot belly stove too.
I live in a small house made in 1904 and my backyard has so much coal in it! I wanted to know how to get it to burn and now I know. Thanks!!
That needs to be dried and seasoned well before you do that. And not all coal burns.