Third Season With The Coal Stove: How Good Is It?
Вставка
- Опубліковано 26 лис 2019
- Third Season With The Coal Stove: How Good Is It?
Going into our third season with the coal stove I have to say that it is one of the best choices I have ever made i terms of winter tome comfort and heating. This is our primary source of heat and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Winters here get very cold, -20*F is not uncommon for us here and this source of heat doesn't even miss a beat.
#heating #blacksmithing #coal
B and B Forge: • A Hammer for The Trade...
tradesmanoffgrid.com
Tip Jar:
www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...
Cannon M50: amzn.to/2WLmczi
#forging #timberframe #blacksmith - Навчання та стиль
My mom had a coal stove in the early 2000s, I loved it. Used to have to open a window it got so warm!
Hello Jim , well that is cool , keeps the fire most of the night i bet . Have a happy thanks giving to you and yours , take care
Keeps it for around 16 hours in cold weather.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY JIM !
Thank you buddy. Same to you.
Glad the stove is working well for you Jim. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 and stay warm. 💚💜🦃
Good morning Don. Happy Thanksgiving buddy.
Glad the coal stove is working out, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family
Good morning Mike, Happy Thanksgiving.
I was wondering how the coal stove was working out for ya. I'm glad that it is. 👍 Wow wood got expensive! Damn!! 😱 Enjoy your evening bud.
From ours to yours Jim, Happy Thanksgiving!
Same to you George.
Happy Thanksgiving Jim! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! God Bless!
Happy Thanksgiving Guy
Thanks Jim. Happy Thanksgiving.
Same to you Pete.
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving to you and family!
Thank you sir, same to you.
Morning, Jim.
Sorry I missed this one yesterday, I was the designated cook, so I was in the kitchen all day. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
I'll be back with any comments on the video after I watch it.
Alright, a look back and update on the coal stove. Nicely done and well put together video. Thanks for sharing. Down here in Kentucky, wood is about $45 per rick delivered, in my area, about 3 rick per truckload. I haven't priced coal, but seeing as it is mined on both ends of the state and it doesn't have to be trucked as far, it is likely much cheaper here. My mom's dad was a coal miner from about 8 years old until he retired minus the years in the Army for WWII. I remember my grandparent's old Ben Franklin pot belly coal stove well. It even had an oven section wear grandma would bake the best biscuits you ever had. I'm sure she cooked other things in and on it, but the biscuits are what I seem to remember most. It sat in the kitchen near the living room door, and I noticed around 10 years old that the floor was starting to sink just a bit under the weight of it. We used to pull the door curtains heat our bath water on the stove (that we had to go outside to the well pump to get), and took our baths near the old stove in a galvanised washtub. Those were the days. They didn't get indoor plumbing of any type until just before Christmas of my 12th to 13th year, so 1982-83. Grandpa didn't care for sitting on the "glass pot" for years after he built my grandmother her indoor bathroom. I think I was into my mid twenties before the outhouse disappeared.
I do remember that you never, ever, throw coal dust into the stove and open the door again before at least 15-20 minutes, had my eyebrows, and hair, flash burned once doing that. Lesson learned.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving Jim and family.
Same to you Bruce
Nice stove, Jim! We had an old pot-belly stove when I was little that we burned coal in. I can still smell that bituminous and hear it crackling!
Hey buddy. Hope you're well.
@@TheTradesmanChannel - Just fine. I been just snackin' a little now and then to get ready for the feast. Hope y'all have a grand turkey day up there!
Should be a good one, I'm on call. Hopefully the phone stays quiet.
Awesome
Right you are my friend. Glad you like it, was wondering how it was working.
We love it Tim.
Evening Jim, good flick, steel is inbound...
Hey buddy
Happy thanksgiving to you lot over there 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thank you Alex
Hi Jim
I haven’t commented for a long time now, I watch all your videos and thoroughly enjoy them.
The reason I don’t comment is that I know nothing about woodwork so feel inadequate to comment. I was always wondering how your stove was doing, this was how I first started watching you as I just love stoves, I have an anthracite burning stove also here in Scotland, like you I was always feeding mine with wood. When my wife became very ill I changed it to an anthracite burning stove, I just clean it once a day and fill it once a day and the house is roasting.
I really hope you and your family are all doing fine and keeping well.
Kind regards from Scotland,
Johnny
Johnny it is great to hear from you. I was wondering how you were doing.
Happy Thanksgiving Jim
Same to you John
Always a trade off. But sounds like it makes the house very comfortable.
Hi,Jim My dad always had a bucket of coal ash in the farm truck for winter ice. Never a problem backing up a barnhill. It is better than sand.
Just a FYI, I cut my first mortices in my ash beams yesterday. It went pretty well. Have a great Thanksgiving. Grant
Can't wait to see your project
i haul milk and i too carry ash
Happy thanksgiving buddy!
Hey buddy, hope your day was good.
Hard to believe that was two years ago, time flies
It sure does
2021-01-16 - Tonight there is a snowstorm in Quebec - I liked everything about this movie
*
Thanks for the update!
And a very happy Thanksgiving to all!
Hey buddy
WHAT A MESS ON THE BENCH!!!!
My Maternal GrandMother heated a three-story home through the Winters in NJ for Forty years. As a little boy, I shoved many shovels of the Black Nuggets into the 🔥 FireBox 🔥 which reminded me of the Bible verses involving Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego....
How do you circulate the Heat throughout the Whole House 🏠???
Gobble Gobble Gobble Happy Turkey 🍗 🦃 🍗 Day Jim!!!
Wow. I grew up with wood stove. I miss it. But not a lot of wood where I am but I'm sourcing out some coal. 13 hrs and still going sounds amazing. I want one just to wake up to a toasty stove. I have gas but I want to cook too. So I might have a range and heater in house and do a coal stove in sunroom. I can just open sunroom to the house and still cook on it if I want. Our master is freezing in power outage and I'm debating heat for the master bedroom either gas, wood or coal........ I'm not sure what is best for bedroom.
That looks like a lot of hard work to set it up. But I can see the benefits of coal vs wood.
It is a bit od work but we've found that I only need to touch the stove twice a day.
I just found this, don't know how I missed it. ???? what was the product you were putting on the outside of heater?? It made it look like new.
Morning Jim.. oops, I missed this video, though I remember when you installed it. I'm surprised where you live you never set up an outdoor wood furnace and pipe the hot water into a heat ex-changer in the house. Very efficient and the way mine works, I only have to fill it once a day.
I had thought of it but it would cost me around $1500 a year to heat with it, of course it would be worth it to heat the house and the barn.
@@TheTradesmanChannel Yes, mine will heat four buildings, though I only have my house hooked up to it. I was thinking about hooking it to my hot tub, but still thinking about it. My stove is almost 22 years old.
Why did the previous owners get rid of the stove? Are there any fumes you can't detect? Has this stove ever set-off a CO detector? What do you do with the ashes? How often do you need to remove clinkers? Can you maintain a lower temperature ... say. high 60's? What mechanically is the difference between a wood stove and coal stove?
I heard you mention being in New York......you stated several times "up here"........ where in NY are you? I am close to Boonville, NY. 😇
I'm about 80 miles north of you, I grew up in Copenhagen.
just curious you still got the coal stove going thanx and stay warm and keep up the good work !
Good morning. Still using it, works great.
@@TheTradesmanChannel awsome we got a coal chubby and love it cannot beat the steady quiet even heat you n yours take care and the good videoes !!!!!!
We have a Coalbrookdale Darby which heats the entire house. Including the finished basement where it's located, the total square footage of the home is about 4100 sq.ft. Love the warmth it provides. We use about 2 1/2 tons at $175 a ton that we pickup right from the mine near Pottsville, PA. The key is the quality of the coal from this mine.
That is fantastic. Tractor Supply has coal $10 for a 40# bag. Even at that steep markup coal is still cost competitive with wood.
It sure is
Seeing this reminds me of Hillary's campaign promise to shut down the coal mines without any concern for the miners and others who would be affected. The alternative energy's create alternative problems and costs here so its hard to find less harmful energy that is cost effective for consumer. It seems stupid to shut down one energy totally rather than mesh them all for the best for the consumer. Your mix beats my all electric when ice storms cut power.
What do you do with the coal ash Jim?My nana used it with the road chip to make her driveway when it settled it went like concrete
I do that too and I take a lot to the dump.
I have an old victorian house that has a beautiful cast iron coal stove that I have debated on putting a gas log set in, but people say wood is getting expensive, gas is cost effective, but watching videos, etc most say coal heats really well. I should get the chimney lined considering its like 150 years old. My problem is I live in midwestern Missouri and I have no idea where to purchase coal. Any ideas? How much coal do you go thru in a year heating your home?
Tractor supply sells it. I burn three to four tons a year but this is extreme cold country here. You'd probably burn much less.
@@TheTradesmanChannel thanks for the info, but 3-4 tons sounds like a lot. Missouri gets pretty cold during the Winter as well but wouldn't know where to store that much. Guess it wouldn't hurt to see if our local TSC can get it in and how much it would cost. Might at least be good for some emergency heating.
Hi, we have the same stove you have. Vermont vigilant 2. Just installed it for this season. We are having a bit of a hard time with it. We started out good and were able to keep our small camp close to 80 degrees in here all day. Now all of a sudden we are struggling to get 70. We went through 2 days at 55 degrees in here and the stove was roaring. It just wasn't putting out any heat. Have you experienced this? I don't know anyone personally that has this stove or that burns coal. So I've been watching your videos. You make it look so easy but hubby and i aren't doing so well 😕. Thanks so much!
Good morning. Three things:
1: there is an air restriction plate in the air intake under the shaker grates in the left rear of the stove that has to be removed if you're burning anthracite. It may already be removed but it's a good place to start.
2: the damper on the top left side of the stove towards the back needs to be closed once you have a well established fire, makes a massive difference.
3: most important: shake the stove down really well, you need to get in under the shaker grates twice a day with a long knife like tool and really get the ash out. What happens is it looks like you have a raging fire going but there's so much ash and clinker in the stove that it won't put much heat out. I would bet that is your issue. Once you get the process down it takes about five minutes in the morning and five minutes at night. Just beware of shaking it down to the point that you put the fire out.
@TheTradesmanChannel Thank you so much for replying! I'll address the things you mentioned in the same order.
1. We have a thermostat or flapper like thing on the back left rear of the stove that we have about half open. On the inside of the stove under the grates there are 3 air holes with a little tin plate on them. One on back right, one up front on each side. Not sure if any of those items are what you're referring to.
2. We handle the damper as you have said to do.
3. I really try to get the ash shaken down and floss really good with the tool it came with. Empty ash pan as needed.
When we couldn't get any heat from it a few days ago we let it go out and gave it a thorough cleaning with our ash vac and started over. Got a good coal fire going after that for about a day and a half but this morning we were back to the 50's when we woke up and I thought I had it filled and going good when I went to bed. I want to get the hang of this because I like all the perks of coal but right now I just want to burn wood cuz I understand wood and it feels so simple compared to this. Thanks so much for your help.
The three tin plates are clean outs, wouldn't hurt to pull those and vacuum out the passages. If those are filled up you might not get good heat. Be patient, once you figure it out you will love it. There is a learning curve.
With a wood stove you can put the ashes on your garden, but with a coal stove, isn't the ash toxic? What can you do with the ash that is safe?
I bag it once it's cooled off and it goes in the trash. Sometimes I'll fill pot holes with it.
Wow, it's been that long? I remember you wheeling it in when you got it, time flies. That burns nut coal or the large stove coal?
Time flies...i burn nut coal and pea coal in it. Great heat.
@@TheTradesmanChannel when I was burning with my Shenandoah woodstove I wanted to get my hands on some stove coal for the really cold nights. Getting up to feed the fire every 4-5 hrs is for the birds. I'm much happier with my boiler system now though.
Will it burn wood also? Nice bluegrass tune!
It does
I realize this is an older video, but I found it interesting, and I'm curious if you have any suggestions on what brand of anthracite coal burning stove is a good brand to look into?
I have a small home 1000 sq ft so it wouldn't take anything too big. I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, John, Indiana
Hitzer is an excellent stove, many models to choose from.
Living in New England I had acquired an All Nighter Pudgy Glo. All Nighters are known for the woodstove and highly sought after. Mine is the coal version which I used for 3 seasons and loved it. I retired it for a wood/coal burning oven. Any Anthracite coal will work. The best prices I have found came from Tractor Supply stores. My place is also small 1000 sq. feet and many a night I slept with window open.
Hitzer model 254 is an excellent stove. That’s what I use to heat my 1100sg/ft home. I’m in the mountains of WV.
If you ever need another stove get a Coal Chubby. Rated to 70,000 btu. real nice and designed to burn coal from the start.
Those are really nice stoves. This stove was the 2nd model Vigilant that was designed to burn coal. The original Vigilant had a coal conversion kit you could get for them that never worked very well.
THANK YOU,CONFUSED,THAT IS A VIGILANT?WHERE IS THE SHAKER HANDLE?
IM IN MAINE,10/2022,COAL HAS DOUBLED IN PRICE AND HARD TO GET.
ITS KING! COAL RULES..GREAT VIDEO..PUT MAGIC HEATER IN THE PIPE..I CAN RUN MY STACK AT 70-80 DEG...BEST WISHES..
Good morning. Coal doubled here as well, not very happy about it because we love heating with coal.
@@TheTradesmanChannel IDT THE PRICE AT THE MINE WENT UP MUCH....COAL IS KING....LOVE COAL HEAT.STAY WELL
How do you get the coal to start burning? We have tried to burn wood, then add the coal. Every time we add the coal, the fire snuffs out. How do you get it to start burning? Thanks
Get a hot wood fire going, I use small pieces and get a good one going. Once the wood is established, put a thin layer of coal on top and open the bottom of the stove. From there you build up a few more layers of coal. Don't forget to close the bottom of the stove once it's burning well.
I can fit a face cord of wood ash into a 2.5 gal can from my indoor boiler. I made a video if your interested. It's a Froling FHG30, high efficiency.
I will check it out.
@@TheTradesmanChannel please ask questions if you have any. I wanted to do a follow up video now that we're into heating season again.
Wood and coal stoves heat almost exactly like the sun does. The sun doesn't heat the air (much) directly. Instead, it heat the ground and buildings and other things. Those things then radiate heat which makes the air warmer. The sun also heats a person directly.
What are you using to shine the stove?
It's just a stove polish. You can find it in most hardware stores. Lasts for years.
Coal heat is pure heat, comes from the heart of Mother Earth. Thanksgiving!
I agree
I have 2 LP space heaters and fuel oil as I said but coal isn't favorable to the Mrs.
Title of the banjo tune?
How did you light your coal stove
I build a wood fire in it first and then put coal in. Once it's going for the season I don't have to restart it very often.
Tell your buddy Tim he’s can get coal up in North Dakota! I think it’s around $60/ ton
That is extremely cheap, I'll let him know.
@@TheTradesmanChannel in center, nd treated stocker is $45.25/ton and lump is $47.75/ton. In Dickinson stoker is $66.75/ton no lump, that’s the price until July 1st 2024 according to the website, center coal company
Is ash OK in the garden?
The ash from a coal stove is fairly caustic, not good for gardening but it does fill potholes quite well.
What county are you located at? I’m in Lewis. Can get rice coal for $220 ton in super sacks. $50 for delivery 👍
I'm in Jefferson. I grew up in Copenhagen
TheTradesmanChannel Howdy Neighbor! Lol
Trust me, you'd feel worse if you had been drinking all night. What is the product you put on the stove? I have a Jotul that is white porcelain. I'd like to paint it Black or darken it. Any idea of a product I could use on porcelain? Happy Thanksgiving Jim. We have a lot to be thankful for not the least of which is we didn't wake up hung over. Hahaha
Those hangovers are a killer. I am not sure what would work for porcelain.
Grate needs replaced... Forge project? =0)
Grate was replaced, those clips were from the first firing.
What a royal, no pun intended, waste of time! 73% of this vid was the prior vid.....so, 16+ minutes in total to tell us you like it, your wife likes and you wouldn't trade it.....how enlightening.
Stop messing with a hand fed stove buy a nice keystoker or alaska rice coal auto stoker.
I work on high tech industrial heating equipment daily as my day job... I keep it as simple and basic as I can when I get home.