anybody burn coal or use antique stoves?

[bigred1951]

i know this is a firewood forum but i never see or hear anything about coal. Its starting to get hard to find around but i was wondering if anybody uses it. I was also wondering it anybody uses old stoves like a pot belly or them big cylinder stoves with all the nickle plate on them.

[Dave Shepard]

You can still get coal around here. A friend of mine used to burn it, but when he built his new house it was vetoed. He had a nice kitchen range, and I'd stop in to see him afterwork, and the house would be perfectly heated without tending all day. He has a couple of those pot belly stoves, and a bigger round oak. He had the Round Oak in his new shop, and used wood in it, but it was way too big. Now he has a little pot belly that wouldn't take a half a five gallon bucket of 6" long chunks and it heats the whole place. I think coal still offers a good value, but not many are using it.

[Mooseherder]

Both of my brothers have converted over to coal stoves instead of wood and are happy about it.  Fill the hopper and let the auger feed the stove.

[bandmiller2]

Coal is good heat if your stove is designed for it, it doesn't seem to burn efficiently in most wood stoves, firebox doesn't concentrate the fire and it will warp them from the heat. For me its the same as pellets, I have to buy it, wile my wood I get free for a little labor. If you must buy wood study all the options to figure out the cheapest BTU's. If I quit burning free wood I would convert to street gas which I already have in the house. Frank C.

[Nate379]

I hauled about 12 tons last year for a customer that also bought firewood.  That 12 tons cost $840 plus $500 for trucking (150 mile trip almost all on rough dirt road)

They say coal to wood is about 1 ton to 1.5 cords.  I dunno why they even bother with wood?!

[Logging logginglogging]

There was a guy at work that burned coal, and he always had burned up hands and all sorts of problems with getting it going and stuff.....I usta call him fight club, cause he would come in to work all tired and injured, and burned... lol

[beenthere]

There was a guy at work that burned coal, and he always had burned up hands and all sorts of problems with getting it going and stuff.....I usta call him fight club, cause he would come in to work all tired and injured, and burned... lol

Likely nothing to do with burning coal or an antique stove, but mostly to do with a klutzy guy that would/could get injured doing whatever. ;)   ;D

[Autocar]

Probably ten years ago we use to burn lump coal very hot heat. But the black feather looking stuff in the flue will burn like gas. When I first started burning coal I never knew about not to cover up the coals. I dumped a half of a five gallion bucket of fine dust on the coals and sat down to dinner and it sounded like a bomb went off it blew the pipes all apart plus blew the clean out door right out of the chimney  ;D. It is hard to find around here anymore.

[stratton]

Bigred, I burn 1/2 anthacite 1/2 wood in my indoor boiler. the coal is super for overnight burns.Im addicted to PEEKIN IN. I love love to see the black rocks glowin away with the lights off. Luke

[den]

This site will give you all you need to know about coal.
http://nepacrossroads.com/