Wow! Thanks for letting me know. So happy to hear my video helped. Good luck with your new stove, I love mine, such good quality heat. Just a side note if you haven’t subscribed please consider it. I really need new ones.Thanks Bob
Hey just wanted to know where you get your coal from? I was getting mine from tractor supply but they didn’t have very much this year. I actually was using coal I bought from them 2 yrs ago, and will run out in a couple days. We are in South Jersey. Our TS will not be getting any more in this season.
I've been using the starter mice for years since my grandfather always used starter mice. Theyre just a bit too expensive and our nearest stove store is annoyingly out of the way. This worked like a charm thanks so much.
I’m so glad when I hear this because I was in the same place you and a lot of all of my watchers were until it just dawned on me this method. Thanks for your comment! Have a great holiday season! Bob
So glad for you. I thought I was going to go crazy myself before too! Thanks for watching. If you haven’t already like and subscribe it will help me immensely!
Hey Rob, I felt like it was as long for me as for you until I came across this method. So glad it helped. Thanks for your comment! If you haven’t already please subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified . it costs nothing and helps me bring more content. We are working on more. I have a few on their way. Have a great one Rob! Thanks Bob
Thanks for the great video! I saw a youtube video of a man using a small piece of road flare to light his coal stoker. Inexpensive and seems to work perfectly...
I having been using something similar but I use chunk charcoal soaked in starter fluid. When the charcoal is red I add the coal in about 3 minutes I remove the the tin can. I have had no problems in the last 3 years.
few cups pellets with some gel fire starter , 5 mins done. No splitting wood down , bag of pellets last about 3-5 winters , very rarely does it even go off. Cant control power company so at times I do have to relight few times during the year. Load my stove hopper (not same as yours)every 2-3 days and empty the ash bin out for snow/icy driveway...keeps going 24/7, shut down middle and end ofwinters to clean it but relights easy.
I like your method very much, and I will try it. The method I have used for a couple years now is a heat gun set on high temp and blow, embedding the tip into a pile of coal in the platter (your called the ramp). You do have babysit it closely because the tip of the heat gun will burn, but done properly it will get the coal started with just electricity. BTW, I too have replaced the existing burn/vent/combust fans and coal feeder controller with a controller unit that I have made myself from scratch, it makes the efficiency of the burn go to 2x more efficient than those timing only controllers which I found to be a continual frustrating balancing act. No more of that. I did consider commercially selling my custom controller units, but haven't had time to do the marketing.
Yeah that is way up. Fortunately I bought enough at the lower price 2yrs ago and still have enough to get through most of Feb. of 24 hopefully. Thanks for your comment. Hope you have a great Christmas! Bob
There is a small fan that blows air through. If you have holes but Little or no air is coming... see how you might clean it from the back. Also if you can push something through the holes first. Mine got clogged once like that.
If no air is coming out of your ramp with the holes in you have to take the ramp off and clean that tray out of fly ash.you should do it every year. Wait till you see the difference. They have all kind of videos on here to clean it, pretty easy. Also I have a carbon monoxide tester built in mine so you can't light the fire the way he is showing you. If a door is left open for instance to take ashes out stove will shut down. I can only light mine with them starter bags because doors have to be kept close or shuts off. It's actually probably a pressure tester that shuts it off we just call it c o tester built in.
CO rises put your detector up by the ceiling on the highest occupied floor of your house. If you have more then 1 floor put one on all floors. 23 years in emergency services ive had the unfortunate task of getting people out of a house that were unconscious cause the detector was to low in the house
Thanks for your comment. I have smoke and carbon monoxide detectors on both floors in the ceiling. The lower one detects any Co that gathers toward the floor that may get drafted towards it. This was the advise of our local fire and rescue dept. I so glad you commented and I’m sure it will help anyone reading it!
@@thefiveacrewoods6144 no problem. It's a common myth that detectors should be by the floor cause its heavier. CO is slightly lighter then air so it will be at the ceiling first but as a whole will easily and readily mix in the air. Best overall practice is mount your smoke and CO detectors next to eachother above doorways leading from the rooms of sorces, top of steps is another good spot for upstairs bedrooms cause itll have to pass them on its way to your rooms
Hey Colin, thanks for your comment. I did that video about 4 yrs ago and I have since gotten one, but you are the first to say you couldn’t hear. Thanks Bob >
I just bought a rice coal stove. Thanks you surely saved me a lot of hassles.
Wow! Thanks for letting me know. So happy to hear my video helped. Good luck with your new stove, I love mine, such good quality heat. Just a side note if you haven’t subscribed please consider it. I really need new ones.Thanks Bob
Hey just wanted to know where you get your coal from? I was getting mine from tractor supply but they didn’t have very much this year. I actually was using coal I bought from them 2 yrs ago, and will run out in a couple days. We are in South Jersey. Our TS will not be getting any more in this season.
I've been using the starter mice for years since my grandfather always used starter mice. Theyre just a bit too expensive and our nearest stove store is annoyingly out of the way. This worked like a charm thanks so much.
I’m so glad when I hear this because I was in the same place you and a lot of all of my watchers were until it just dawned on me this method. Thanks for your comment! Have a great holiday season! Bob
This technique works amazing thanks for the video its going to save me so much money
So glad for you. I thought I was going to go crazy myself before too! Thanks for watching. If you haven’t already like and subscribe it will help me immensely!
I've been lighting my coal stove for 23 years the hard way. This was so easy. Took all of 5 minutes to get the thing going.
Hey Rob, I felt like it was as long for me as for you until I came across this method. So glad it helped. Thanks for your comment! If you haven’t already please subscribe, and hit the bell to get notified . it costs nothing and helps me bring more content. We are working on more. I have a few on their way. Have a great one Rob! Thanks Bob
2024 in Massachusetts 1 bag of rice coal is 13 bucks 😢
@joeohara2429 whoa….that’s incredible. I haven’t checked ours yet. I still have about 40 bags from a bunch I bought 2 yrs ago.
Thanks for the great video! I saw a youtube video of a man using a small piece of road flare to light his coal stoker. Inexpensive and seems to work perfectly...
It smells horrible
I having been using something similar but I use chunk charcoal soaked in starter fluid. When the charcoal is red I add the coal in about 3 minutes I remove the the tin can.
I have had no problems in the last 3 years.
few cups pellets with some gel fire starter , 5 mins done. No splitting wood down , bag of pellets last about 3-5 winters , very rarely does it even go off. Cant control power company so at times I do have to relight few times during the year. Load my stove hopper (not same as yours)every 2-3 days and empty the ash bin out for snow/icy driveway...keeps going 24/7, shut down middle and end ofwinters to clean it but relights easy.
Thanks, yet another way to make things easier.
I like your method very much, and I will try it.
The method I have used for a couple years now is a heat gun set on high temp and blow, embedding the tip into a pile of coal in the platter (your called the ramp).
You do have babysit it closely because the tip of the heat gun will burn, but done properly it will get the coal started with just electricity.
BTW, I too have replaced the existing burn/vent/combust fans and coal feeder controller with a controller unit that I have made myself from scratch, it makes the efficiency of the burn go to 2x more efficient than those timing only controllers which I found to be a continual frustrating balancing act. No more of that.
I did consider commercially selling my custom controller units, but haven't had time to do the marketing.
Thanks for reaching out to me. These things can be frustrating. So glad I can be of some help.
Thanks Bob
I am going to try your method the next time I have to put mine underway. Thankyou.
it’s been best for me. It has taken me years to figure it out.thanks for the comment:)
I use a small mapp gas torch to light mine… it works well.
Thanks. The important thing is to be happy with your method!
Just take Match lite charcoal break it up into pieces like powder, take two handfuls put it to the stove put coal on top of it and lite it
Thanks Jen for your method. I’m sure it will help someone. Always looking for different ways for others. Thanks for watching!
Bob:)
All ypu have to do is pressureize the room the stove is in by opening a window or door and it will pull a draft almost instantly. No smoke!!
I buy road flares........... get 4-6 starters out of one flare.
Thanks for yet another way!
If I were to put your unit in a 20ft shipping container in 0deg f would it keep warm ?
Hi, It would heat it no problem with tons left over.
That's awesome
i burn nut coal but burning wood this year becuse tractor supply price is almost $10.00 a 40 lb bag.
Yeah that is way up. Fortunately I bought enough at the lower price 2yrs ago and still have enough to get through most of Feb. of 24 hopefully. Thanks for your comment. Hope you have a great Christmas! Bob
To the breaker not a quarry
Just bought 2 bags of 40lb nut anthracite at tractor supply in Arkansas. Cost $20.
Rice coal is about $7 for a 40 pounder here in South Jersey .
What controls the air that comes up through the grate where the coal is mine has no air coming up through the holes
There is a small fan that blows air through. If you have holes but Little or no air is coming... see how you might clean it from the back. Also if you can push something through the holes first. Mine got clogged once like that.
One other thought. Is your fan speed controlled? It may be turned down.
If no air is coming out of your ramp with the holes in you have to take the ramp off and clean that tray out of fly ash.you should do it every year. Wait till you see the difference. They have all kind of videos on here to clean it, pretty easy. Also I have a carbon monoxide tester built in mine so you can't light the fire the way he is showing you. If a door is left open for instance to take ashes out stove will shut down. I can only light mine with them starter bags because doors have to be kept close or shuts off. It's actually probably a pressure tester that shuts it off we just call it c o tester built in.
CO rises put your detector up by the ceiling on the highest occupied floor of your house. If you have more then 1 floor put one on all floors. 23 years in emergency services ive had the unfortunate task of getting people out of a house that were unconscious cause the detector was to low in the house
Thanks for your comment. I have smoke and carbon monoxide detectors on both floors in the ceiling. The lower one detects any Co that gathers toward the floor that may get drafted towards it. This was the advise of our local fire and rescue dept. I so glad you commented and I’m sure it will help anyone reading it!
@@thefiveacrewoods6144 no problem. It's a common myth that detectors should be by the floor cause its heavier. CO is slightly lighter then air so it will be at the ceiling first but as a whole will easily and readily mix in the air. Best overall practice is mount your smoke and CO detectors next to eachother above doorways leading from the rooms of sorces, top of steps is another good spot for upstairs bedrooms cause itll have to pass them on its way to your rooms
@@gliderydin2911 Duly noted! Thanks:)
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Thanks!
Get a mike. We can't hear you.
Hey Colin, thanks for your comment. I did that video about 4 yrs ago and I have since gotten one, but you are the first to say you couldn’t hear. Thanks Bob >