How We Heat Our Cabin in the Woods in Winter
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- In this video, I show how we heat our cabin in the woods in winter. The process involves shipping anthracite coal in from Pennsylvania, then burning it in an anthracite coal burning stove. Our method of heating our cabin in the woods in winter with coal only requires 5 minutes of stove maintenance every 12 hours. This is thanks to the clever design of the stove we use, called the Chubby Stove (chubbystove.com/). We used to heat our home with wood, but realized coal needs much less work and does a better job. Watch and learn how we heat our cabin in the woods in winter.
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Subscribed and enjoyed the video. How much does a sack of coal cost and about how long will it last. I know the burn rate differs due to temp, insulation, etc., but a general idea for your location.
Much appreciated Perry! For us here in Northern Ontario, each bag costs about $10 CAD delivered. To heat our 1000 square foot cabin all winter with temperatures ranging from -10 to -30 C, I go through slightly more than half a bag a day.
Here in Louisiana, it would be much less, but I knew of a man, years ago, bought a small trailer load, and it lasted for serval years. He kept it covered by a tarp, and said it will last forever.
Since its basically a rock it will last forever. Lol.
When we started burning coal we used stove coal in a bin in our cellar that was leftover from sometime in the 1940s. Its nice that you can also store it outdoors and not have to worry about water like you do with pellets. Ideally you'd like to keep coal dry and free of leaves and other debris but it takes a lot less care than wood.
@@cabininthewoods517 What is the weight of the $10 bag of coal you use? Thank you…..
@@coopermurphy6422 40 lbs
Just subscribed, reminds me as a kid watching my father "bank" the coal fire for the night in our house back in Appalachia.
Cool memory, thanks for sharing!
INCREDIBLY WELL presented! Clear and straightforward, no shtick or stupid humor. Your video is better than others from the so called "professionals "
Much appreciated! I don’t have the time or patience for a shtick…I figure others don’t either.
Enjoyed the video. I use wood, and although it's quite a bit of work, it's essentially free having the trees on our property. Read through a number of comments and glad to NOT see any 'Karens' crying about climate change. 😃
When I was a child in the 60s in Northeastern Pennsylvania, we had a coal stove and burned anthracite coal (of coarse, anthracite is king!). We made the switch to gas heat (hot air vents) and I have not felt as warm since! Anthracite coal, or hard wood and radiant heat, nothing is more comfortable.
Couldn’t agree more!
I grew up in the hard coal aka anthracite region. We only had three coal stoves to heat the house, cook our food and heat the water. The stove burned all year long, summer and winter. Mom would “can” in mason jars fruits and vegetables. We were preppers before prepping became cool.
We’d buy the coal by the ton and have it delivered and chuted to the basement for storage.
I love these sort of stories. Folks like yourself who grew up this way always seem to know the importance of gratitude and good old hard work.
We used coal as well
Everyone canned back then - but we had the common sense to not use coal. Anyone die from lung disease - that is where it was from.
That was back when coal was $20 a ton. Anthracite now sells for $360 per ton delivered where I live in Pa. Wood is more work, but for the most part, wood can be gotten free if your willing to cut it into stove lengths.
Where was that?
I'm so glad you first didn't just dump the ash out on the ground. You keep the can away from the house and keep the lid on it.
This is not a new thing burning coal. In the early part of the century almost every home did exactly what you are doing. However, you are rediscovering the greatness of the simple things in life. Great video
Thanks!
when we sold grandma's house she had a full coal bin. New homeowners did not want it so we got it for free. Yay, what a warm winter for us. (and at camp)
I live in West Virginia and my family has used coal to heat with as long as I can remember. It helps to have a coal seam on your property. We were blessed to have several coal seams on our property. Liked the video.
What a great setup! Blessed for sure 🙂
Should have never made West Virginia a state - nothing but takers.
@@godslayer1415 gonna elaborate on that at all or??
My uncle's and my grandmother would spread the coal ash on the dirt driveway in the winter for traction. We heated the farm house with coal, coal fired steam furnace, a cook stove and 2 Portsmouth belly stoves.
Coal ash, also, can be used as a fertilizer (with the proper preparation) and have high qualities in that regard.
Wow that is the exact stove we had in the house I grew up in. I use to tend it and then polish it in the summer, I clearly remember the ship icon. That would heat the entire 1,200 sq. ft. basement and even a portion of the upstairs if we opened the basement door. 35 years later and I immediately reacted to the sounds in your video and I can still smell it burning when we went outside. Thanks for posting this!
So cool to read this! Thanks for sharing!
Great Vid! ---NOTE TO THOSE WITHOUT A COAL OR CHUBBY STOVE--- Yesterday I watched this vid and loved it. It gave me flashbacks of my great grandmothers little home back in Wisconsin. She had the old coal stove and pot belly in the living room. For me, I heat with a small, wood burning tent stove that blows me out of my 35 ft RV. After viewing the above vid, I immediately went online to find a coal dealer here in central PA. Found a great little company and bought the same exact coal, in a 40# bag for $10 bucks. Here's the results: For my little stove, it's a "No Go!" With my little stove, I couldn't keep the temp up long enough to keep the coal going. (I like to run at about 550 degrees from the top of the stove to the entrance of the stack.) I should mention too, my stove has a raised grate that allows for air to circulate and get drawn up from under the wood or coal creating nice oxygen flow. That was yesterday, Feb 2, 2023. Today I jacked up the heat to 650 degrees and kept loading the firebox with wood to maintain the temp. Stop loading the wood and the temp would slowly drop. My take away... Thick cast iron stoves retain the heat better and project better radiant heat. My tent stove is only thin walled Titanium so the heat dissipates rather quickly. To the credit of this anthrax (I know, anthracite. But wanted to see if anyone would catch it.) 😂 To the credit of the anthracite, it does keep a bed of embers going a little longer so I don't have to baby sit the stove as much. Knowing what I know today, would I run out for another bag of coal and put another 65 miles on the truck? No, but thankfully yesterday was an absolutely beautiful clear day here in PA and that alone made the ride worth it. So I put this comment here in case you're having similar thoughts about trying this in a smaller tent type stove, at least you have more experience to draw from. And secondly, to tell the guy that made this vid he did a great job! Keep those vids coming! All the best, -Mike 🙂
Great insight from personal experience! Thanks for sharing! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
As someone who grew up off grid in the Canadian far north burning firewood as our only source of heat I had no idea that people were able to heat with coal fired stoves. We had no coal anywhere around where I lived, nor was any available to buy if you had wanted to so I had thought that burning coal for heat had long since gone away. It’s very interesting to see the coal burning stove in action and know that people heat with coal in other areas of North America.
Believe it or not, I’m in Northern Ontario and have this coal shipped by the transport load from Pennsylvania.
@@cabininthewoods517 I was in the Yukon Territory at the time, firewood was plentiful and easily available so that’s what people used. Our drinking water was hauled by hand from the lake while our two luxuries were Naptha for Coleman lanterns and batteries for a shortwave radio.
@@cabininthewoods517 if I may... What is the cost of a truckload?
Is this available in Canada?
My parents generation had to stoke the coal furnace. They actually had a coal bunker in the basement next to the furnace that got filled with every month in the winter. It was my uncles job every morning before going to school and then when he came back in the evening.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
I love the smell of the coal burning when it's first re-stoked, I use the same brand of coal in NW Indiana
Me too!!
Anthracite coal is the very best way to heat. Nothing beats it I have been using it for the past 17 years and I used to heat with oil heat and I would never even think of going back to it
Couldn’t agree more!
Problem is coal is quite expensive now in the UK, hard to believe we had 200 years worth in the ground even when every one was using it
@Fred Wills at least with coal you don't need electricity. So that's an advantage. And I'm a pellet stove user as well. 🖖✌️
@Fred Wills We are seriously considering the switch from a beast of a wood furnace to a pellet stove.
We are getting older and it would be so much easier.
My major concern is the storage of the pellets, how to keep them from gathering condensation if stored in an unheated area.
I would want an entire winter’s worth of pellets stored away.
We live in Southern Ohio.
Our weather has been unpredictable.
One day it’s 58F the next it 20F.
Moisture builds on everything.
Any suggestions?
@@cabininthewoods517 but how much does it cost though? I'm also european and it's real difficult to get some, even just coal and it very costly so most people just use wood (apart from coal being banned in some places due to emmisions/pollution)
And for those who don´t know: Do *NOT* put this in an ordinary wood stove! This coal gets waaay hotter than firewood and can melt a stove!!!
Some stoves can burn both. Usually indicated by a "shaker grate" which accomplishes his "flossing" easier. We have several and usually burn wood (heavy hardwood forest here), but keep 3 tons of stoker/nut anthracite here for long term emergencies. A plastic caged tote will hold 2000#, and are easy to handle with pallet forks and machine.
Woodstove won’t melt from coal. Wood stoves are made from the same cast iron and plate steel that coal stoves are made of. Same fire brick is used in both types also. Anthracite coal needs airflow through the whole bed from bottom to top. It won’t burn in a regular woodstove which generally will feed air from the sides of the fire.
Coal stoves can be used to burn wood but they need to be watched to get the settings right. Otherwise you can over fire your setup with a bit of a runaway stove because wood burns hotter/quicker. Coal burns hotter in the long run but is slower to get there.
@@Garysalunatic Not all woodstoves are made of cast iron. Some are made of sheet metal. And if you burn coal in one of those, and the draft is good, it WILL melt!
@@J1I9M7M4Y no serious woodstove is made of sheet metal. Those for camping are, but those made for homes are at least made of sheet steel. My coal stove is made of sheet steel with a cast iron grate. It won’t melt.
most will burn both, just depends on your grate. also, my stove gets much hotter with hardwood than coal. I can melt the polyureathane off my cabinets with wood, never could with coal
Hi Frank here; We burned coal in the 60's , much larger stove for an inn, we were taught to first shake the coal on top then the clean-out then reloading, the (coal)was poured in at an angle 45 degrees so the edge of hot coal could start burning the new, then poke a few holes for air around the thicker mass. Again this was a much larger stove with more room inside, " just old school stuff to add "
I love hearing about how was burned in different situations - thanks for sharing!
Basically the same way my grandparents would heat their home here in central NC USA until they got central air in the 1970's. People forget the old ways in favor of the prevailing way to do things sometimes.
The home they lived in was built in 1910, was bought by my great grandfather in 1942, and was part of a 'mill town' built by the nearby textile mill when it was built for the workers. By the small chunks of coal that were in the dirt of the backyard garden, that was the prevailing way of heating for most of that house's life.
Excellent video.
Thanks for sharing! Glad you liked the video 🙂
Awesome presentation!! No more wood cutting and stay warmer!
Thank you!
I used to live near PA border and burned the bituminous type in a coal furnace but that coal was dirty and dusty I used to literally spray it down heavily and burn wet coal. I don't miss the mess but this looks so much better and no electricity or moving parts! I want one! Thanks for sharing
I’ve never burned bituminous, but from I hear it’s a messy pain. I have zero complaints about anthracite. If you’re really interested, the exact stove I use can be bought at chubbystove.com. Designed by a very smart New England gentleman by the name of Larry Trainer
@@cabininthewoods517 Thanks! I've already been at the chubbystove website thank you! I had never heard of them before so I appreciate this new to me info. All the testimonials are very positive.
Nice setup! I used to work for a company that sold that same brand of coal, mostly to the Amish in Ohio. It is a great way to heat! You may want to look into stainless steel stove pipe because the coal will rot the standard pipe alot faster than wood. Take care.
Great to meet someone else with a Blaschak connection! It’s fantastic coal. Great tip on the stove pipe, thanks!
Yes my Anthracite coal fired boiler use to rust out the stove pipe every two years switched to stainless steel and it is still going strong going on 15 years
@@richardboggs260 316 stainless will last a lot longer than 304. The trick is to keep it dry when not burning the stove.
@@pacoal It's about 3 things.
1. Amount of sulfur in the coal. Less sulfur, less chimney degradation. That's why using clean coal is so important in this case. Of course clean coal means less pollution outside too.
2. Fumes temperature. If it's below some temperature (don't hate me, i forgot the exact number but it's somewhere around 180C 356F), then you will get sulfur compounds deposit on the walls of the chimney.
3. Moisture. Wet chimney with sulfur oxide on the walls will create acid - this is the main reason for chimney degradation. Acid will just eat your steel pipe like a hungry little hippo ;) And there is some moisture in the coal too!
So for those type of stoves it is a ballance between the amount of heat retained in the house and expelled through a chimney to have a well maintained source of heat.
Greetings from Western North Carolina.Excellent tutorial on anthracite coal for winter heating.Production values are professional! Video,sound,content far exceed the usual home videos.Educational,entertaining.I Am a new subscriber.Appreciate your effort and result.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video, and I appreciate the subscribe!
It all depends on the wood stove, my Ashley I can fill it up on a Friday morning and go out of town and come back Sunday evening and still have coals. With it opened up a bit more and good hardwood filling it once in the morning and once at night is all it needs when the temperatures are below 20F and I empty the ash tray once a week. These pretty looking stoves with glass fronts most of them have such a tiny fire box you have to feed them way more often.
Sounds like you have a very good stove 👍
I heat with wood and have a Hearthstone wood stove.
I've never heard of an inside wood stove that could burn that long.
Do you have a model number and size or link you could send so I can see the exact stove?
Ashley makes many different kinds.
@@capecodder04 it’s a cheap Ashley Clone. I have two one is a Wonder Wood the other is Wonder Coal. The Wonder Coal is 15yrs old the Wonder Wood is 30. I think they’re made in Mexico now but these were made in South Pittsburgh TN. The Ashley that looks just like these is the stove we had growing up that performed the same. I think they were $300 new
I live in Hungary, would love to burn anthracite coal , but it's not available in my area, so I burn brown coal which doesn't burn so clean and has hard melted residue (clinker). Burning it together with some wood gives better results.
Quality coal fires look mesmerizing :) we had coal fireplaces in Scotland but damn in an open pit lasts only 2 hours :(
Mesmerizing is a good way to describe it!
@@cabininthewoods517 It looks like a magic fire 😀 with very little flames and very high heat
Nice, I grew up with coal. We had a hot air coal furnace😊. As a little kid I maintained the fire. 😊
I’ve run a coal
Stove for 2 decades. “Flossing” is unnecessary if you simply use the shaker grate. Just use that long pick if you end up with a klinker that’s clogging up your grate. I’ve never had a problem running my stove and I’ve never “flossed” it.
WOW 💯👍 beats having to bank the stove every 8-10 hrs lol ❤️💯👍
If you place that metal can with closed lid inside, you get free heat untill it cools down. Ash works like sand, and can hold a long time the heat and released it slowly. Another trick if the can is full and cooled down, is to place it on top of your stove and heat it back up. That way you have a small portable heat source. Grtz
Not a bad idea at all! I think I’ll need to wait until my daughter and puppy are both bigger though to try it.
Not taking hot ash out of the house is how the house can potentially burn down. The placement of the can 8 feet from the house and in the snow is a great place for it.
You'll end up with a lot of fly ash inside your house. Did you see the billowing cloud of dust fly up when he dumped the ash hopper into the trash can?
@@fredsasse9973 , how can there be fly ash, if the lid is on the can ? The can filling with ash can be done outside, and after the lid is placed on the can, can it be carried back inside.
@@gibblespascack1418 , it seems that you never had a coal stove. If you fill up a metal can , it can take a week to fill up a entire can. Only the last added ash can be very hot, the ash from the previous days is cold. If you heat up the entire can with closed lid, by placing it back on the stove, the contents will be max 100 to 150° C, not enough to burn something down. If you place the heated can on a concrete tile on the floor, with the lid on top, nothing will happen. Only a nice heat radiation coming from the can which is 100% free.
The coal reminds me of dark roast coffee. Looks good!
Very interesting. Good job on the camera angles.
Burned coal in the stove when I was a kid. Loved that dirty heat,
Very informative folks! I wish you the best in your endeavors!
Mark Meyer, Piney Springs Homestead, Stewart Tennessee
Thank you!
First time here and enjoyed it very much!
Thanks!
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Great to hear!
One more and I'll stop writing a book but you brought back so many memories I used to go to my pa paws and carry 6 or 7 .5 gallon buckets of coal in for him every evening and take at least a bucket of ash out sometimes l and a half but that went on our drive way to add traction on top of the snow and ice our drive way was a steep dirt and gravel hill seemed like I always had a shovel in my hand snow off gravel on all summer ashes on in the winter and after we started with wood we shoveled small gravel on all. Winter if not you walked right at a hundred yards from the bottom home have a good week
Thank you for sharing this! ❤from Cyprus.
My pleasure!
I dont even have a coal burning stove or a cabin in the woods but now I wish I did
Thank you. Well done video, clear and concise! I bought an old house a couple years ago that had baseboard. I took it out for many reasons and have been looking around at ideas for economical heating. In the meantime I've set up a natural gas fireplace though it's a little expensive. Wood is what I have been convinced of because it's plentiful and virtually free where I'm at; just takes a strong back and a weak mind. This is the first I've heard about anthracite coal and looks like a great option, now to see whether my laws will allow it.
I use an alaskan coal furnace in my basement ..Hooks up to my existing ductwork and can beun for several days on a hopper of coal,,Incredible heat and very little maintenance
@@dennisgill3459 Excellent, thanks for the insight Dennis!
Some laws are unconstitutional.
@@jimwhitsett4736 Lol! Jim, the older I get the more I feel most laws are unconditional! Except for the one that they don't pass about getting off my lawn
@@jaredgray7872 Because you don't like a law doesn't make it unconstitutional.
That is great, i live in Pennsylvania and i heat my garage with a big army cannon heater pot belly stove and buy that same brand of coal. i always wanted one of those chubby coal stoves and after finding your channel and seeing this video im going to start looking for one a little harder.
Thanks for sharing! Always nice to connect with fellow coal burners 👍
You can get the same stove as I have at chubbystove.com
Great video. Can you show one on how you start the fire?
Loved this one keep up the good work and thanks for shareing.
Thank you! And yes, it’s on the list!
I once had to run a drill truck for post holes down into mounded up flyash from a coal fired power plant,it was just about like drilling concrete! Took forever with a bit big enough for barn posts! Once the ash gets rained on it hardens up. Saw them drop a load out a belly dump semi on a gentle sidehill,it flowed like water. Not sure if your ash would be strong enough but you could try it for setting clothes line posts or something else easy to redo if it doesn't work as a test.
Fly ash is mixed with cement to make a really hard fill especially if it’s compacted down,a company I worked for used it to make bricks to make the cement go further and increase strength.
Nice to see you have a UA-cam channel Robert. I've been watching your Father for years. He and I have an occasional dialogue as I develop my property and cabin on neighboring Drummond Island. I would appreciate more content on living in this environment because I may well find myself spending more and more time there...Nice work!
Thanks! I'll keep the content coming 👍
@@cabininthewoods517 where would I buy coal or a stove that burns it?Virginia
I burn coal also. I have a Harman Stocker Stove and use rice coal (same brand as you use). You put coal into the Hopper and take the ashes out once a day. It will burn for months as long as you keep it up.
Sounds like a great setup!
Its amazing that much fuel will heat your cottage for 12 hours we have a stove and it's a square one with 2 glass doors and that much coal would do for 3hours I think there's too much air getting into it again great video I like heat n my house seamus
A lot depends on stove design.
Very interesting video. My wife and I have a yurt camp in the mountains of Mongolia. Our winters are extremely cold. Night time lows reach -45C (-49F) for the coldest period. Our heating season is 8 to 9 months of the year. We tried heating with electricity (space heaters and heated floors) but it cost a bloody fortune.
Luckily, Mongolia is a coal producer but to reduce pollution the government only allows semi-coke briquettes for residential use now. It costs about US$1.10 for a 25kg (55lb) bag. So we converted to a coal burning boiler and radiators with anti-freeze for this coming heating season. We did a test and about half a bag burns for 16 hours and heats our living areas quite nicely (2 yurts and a bathroom) plus an insulated shipping container which I use for storage / workshop / garage.
We're hoping to get adequate heat for about 5-10% of the price we used to pay this winter.
I had burned coal for many years. The heat is so warm. Never had a problem.
Awesome video! I didn't know of such a beast but I will be doing some research. I have an old country flame wood stove insert that will burn for 18 hours, it's magical. But the reduction in volume and mess has my attention. The only two faxpasses I saw was you rotated the stove 28 times instead of 27. If it's no February that's going to throw your whole year off. #2 and more importantly you can't talk about a new puppy without introducing the new family member to us!!!
Glad you found the video useful! I couldn’t agree more about the puppy. You can meet her here: ua-cam.com/video/6Wl1qZXH1hY/v-deo.html
Reminded me of my old grandfather in London. Now I live in remote Canada I have fallen trees everywhere. Ie logs. Can't see any bloody anthracite anywhere....lol good video. Thanks
If the wood’s there, might as well use it! Cheers
I bought a bag of that coal, through it in the homemade wood burner ,,, that stuff got hot as ______. Definitely a learning curve for me and my set up!
It sure packs a lot of heat!
First time I've seen that kind of stove, excellent.
I have a tenant in a tiny cabin on my property and we lost power one night and he heats with electric. I took him out a metal plant pot frame about a foot high and a stainless steel pot full of wood biochar I make in my woodstove in a stainless steel serving dish. He is good for heat now. No smoke as it's been baked in serving dish. A few chunks keeps him warm all night.
Very cool!
Thank you
seems to have its pro's & con's
at least during power out youre kept warm 👍
Every does, but I personally find the pros hold more weight.
Excellent video! Good pace and explanations, clear and precise! Thank you!
Thanks very much!
Great content mate and well presented. That stove is deadly as bro. You have earned my sub, I look forward to watching more of your videos.
Cheers Mel from Australia.
Much appreciated!
Great video long time still I see coal burning. Good you live in the good old USA BUDDY. Plus still can buy it to . Good old heat for SURE 😊.
You got my sub just from this. I had no idea... I'm from the 'South' and I had no idea this was even an option. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you sir!
Great presentation! Thanks for the information.
Glad you found it helpful!
I love burning coal, it’s a wonderful fuel source that more should take advantage of. We fortunately, have a good amount of black locust on the property matchup which is dead standing without any bark on it. It’s the closest Wood that I’ve burned that’s local that I get a 10-14 burn. I love making tool handles out of it. I wish it wasn’t so hard on the sawmill because it’s a wonderful wood for decks
As an occasional woodworker, I share your love for black locust. Grew up with many of them growing in my yard.
New sub right here...and neighbour from the East...i will look into that, thank you so much Sir.
My pleasure, and thanks for subscribing! The specific stove I use can be found at chubbystove.com. Invented and manufactured by a guy named Larry Trainer.
@@cabininthewoods517 Thanks i went to see their website...will have to save money a little bit more if i choose this option. Thank you again for posting about a great product.
Velcome to Okens Sauna…yoo hooo! Big summer blowout
An honest video, great job.
Thanks, much appreciated!
I remember our family's coal fired stove in the early 1960s. We used it to heat our home. Don't know if we used regular coal or anthracite coal. We had a coal chute for deliveries of coal. As kid it was my job to make sure there was plenty of coal upstairs by the stove to feed the stove and keep it going.
Then in the late 60s our house was wired for electricity and hooked up to the electrical grid. Life was lots better with electricity over coal.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Electricity didn’t become available in our area until about the same time as your home was hooked up…amazing how quickly things change isn’t it? 🙂
@@cabininthewoods517 How does that happen? My grandfather's farm got electricity in rural Arkansas in 1934. How does Clark County, AR get electrified prior to some place near enough PA to make anthracite burning economical?
Nice! I love my wood stove but I think this is the way to go!
Good stuff and thank you.
that was cool to see, i never been around any coal burning. i heat my house only with wood. bad thing is , your chained to your house during the winter. thank for sharing.
You’re welcome!
I watched the 1st ammendment auditors channels grow rapidly. They all share each other's content and recommend their channels. We off grid channels should do the same.
Our cabin in only a little over 1000 square feet, but I know a guy who heats a home almost three times the size with this same stove, no problem. The stove has two horizontal channels going through the top of the combustion chamber, attached the the blower fan at the back to blow warm air outwards. I use that and a series of other floor and wall fans in our cabin to distribute the heat very evenly. This video shows the blower fan in action if you’re interested: ua-cam.com/video/TewWb8xmyzk/v-deo.html
We had a stove in the UK similar to this and we found we only needed to do the push-pull movement to clear the rotating grate without needing your first operation of "flossing". You might like to try that and see if you can save yourself possibly an action that might not in fact be needed (I'm just guessing, I may be wrong!)
I’ve tried this, but on this particular stove I think the grate spacing is too close to skip flossing. The ash seems to get packed in tighter at the bottom and won’t fall through with rotation alone.
@@cabininthewoods517 You have a good quality coal for sure. Ash looks clean, without much hard melted residue (clinker). If spacing in the grate is too wide, you would have a lot of unburnt coal falling down your ash tray.
My dad had to rebuilt a grate in one stove we bought long time ago. He added another moving grate between existing stationary one. The only downside was cleaning it :D But this helped so much with the amount of coal burned.
So, Santa giving the misbehaving children coal, was to keep them alive and warm throughout the winter...and the rule followers froze with their childish things....
I never knew..
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Have a gravity fed coal stove as my primary heat source. Was getting nut coal for $370 per ton (pallet) from Tractor Supply the past 4 yrs. Got one there this year almost $900/ton. Now they don't even have it anymore. Had to drive 2.5 hours into PA with a trailer for a load at $450/ton.
It sucks being in the Western US, we do not have access to coal or coal burning stoves. We do have a seemingly endless supply of wood, but it's much more work to harvest, split, store, season and burn.
I live in the mountains of SW New Mexico and I know what you mean. I would love to have a coal stove, but I do have a wood stove and there is a decent supply of Juniper and Oak around here to harvest, season, and burn.
Great video voice for listening. I grew up with a much less efficiently built coal stove.
Great idea just don't tell the greenies (alarmists) they will be blockading your driveway. Stay warm and FTW - its getting crazier out there. Hope your survival skills are up to scratch. Never know whats around the corner - personal opinion.
I love the smell of a coal fire.
I like the compactness of this stove. It’s easy to locate for the best feel of radiant heat. However this stoves ash system is horrible. I’v burn coal all my life and my parents for the last 60 years. Our stoves don’t rotate the whole burn chamber, but rather have 2 grates with interwoven fingers that are self cleaning when you rattle the stove. No laying on the floor picking at the stove. Also the Ash pans are full width and rectangular (so are the stoves). We open on one end and they basically shovel up any of the overflow ash when you slide the empty pan back in. Plus there easier to dump without a spill.
The metal bucket is no joke when dealing with hot ash. My grand father cleaned out his wood stove for the summer 2 weeks after his last fire one time. He filled a plastic 5 gallon bucket and set it out on the back porch. Went in for lunch and came back an hour later to find a wilted bucket.
Sounds wonderful, efficient and smart! Good for you.
Bought the coal in bulk from Pennsylvania a couple years ago. Cost me $7.50 US per 40 lb bag at the time, delivered. Price has gone up now I understand. The stove can be found here: chubbystove.com. It’s $2800.
Myself got a industrial vacuum cleaner for the ashes it’s great and much quicker than by hand
Does the shaker work as it is supposed to work? Usually, the shaker is what you do instead of flossing the grate. I have never seen a coal unit flossed like that. The set up looks great. Was the stove new when you got it? I also like the size of the wood pile. It seems like if the coal supply runs out, you are ready with wood.
I agree been using coal for the last 5 years. Can't beat it.
And consider getting a voice acting job that ending credits were fantastic.
Absolutely true. However, in Spain now it is almost impossible to get, of terrible quality and is now €1 a kilo.! So back to wood. Which is a total pain. We always had an Aga solid fuel on anthracite and it was brilliant.
Oh my god.. this is something my grandparents used when they were yongs .. this generation probably don't know what this is any more :D
I feel blessed! I figure with the permit, cutting, hauling, splitting firewood it costs me about $15 a cord so $90 for a winters worth of heat.
Nothing wrong with wood heat. I did it for years and love it.
You must be from my area, that's all we have is anthracite. I'm from Sunbury PA, I hauled plenty of that
First time watching your channel. Informative but leaves me with three questions.
1: How much area being heated
2: How long does a bag last
3: Cost of a bag
1. 1000 square feet
2. Just under 2 days
3. $10 including delivery, because I was willing to buy thousands of dollars worth at once.
@@cabininthewoods517 Thanks!! Sounds like a great way to heat!!!
Great video, I was completely unaware that people heat their homes with coal in this day and age. I mean, I just put in two heat pumps with much consideration in my home, a big deal for me as I've only ever lived in a home heated with wood(42 years). The pumps cost $2.50/day combined in electricity, but my wood furnace was costing me $8/day in firewood. I still can't believe that electricity is cheaper but there's something to be said about technology.
Electricity is not cheaper but then, your heat pumps are not using electricity to generate the heat. The electricity is being used to help extract the heat from the outside air.
Absolutely, technology certainly has its place! That’s one reason I didn’t go with an off grid log cabin when we built our place beginning in 2009. Electricity prices here are high enough that coal works out better economically, but if that ever changes I think a heat pump setup like yours will be my next choice. Glad you enjoyed the video :) Cheers!
There's a lot of people in North East PA heating with it in our former farm house we had a self stoking furnace. We would turn the heat up to whatever we wanted if it got too hot in the house we would just open the windows
I know many people where coal is their main source of heat.
How does the cost compare to wood pellet stoves? Coal would seem high by the bag can’t you buy it by the truck load?
recycle the bag...any bag with plastic that stretches ,bread bags ,shopping etc..can be recycled at walmart. they have a big blue box at the entrance for recycling plastic bags,tnx for the info on coal burning
Cool. The way prices for Fuel to heat homes is going, I think you just might see more Coal Stoves. Thanks.
I agree.
To help save you time. Get a 2 deep pans used for ash. 12 hours worth of coal in 1 or 2 paper lunch bags. when its change time take the ash pan out put it under or on top of the stove cover with lid if there is a draft. put empty pan in. Hit gril with a hammer a few times until ash clears. Put bag or bags of coal in.
Great video,thanks for the info.
You’re welcome!
I grew up on a farm in WV, and we used coal to heat our entire old farmhouse. There's nothing like it. As my older neighbor said, "When you've been out in the snow feeding the cows, you just can't back up to electric heat like you can a coal stove."
I never heard of "flossing," but that's what it looks like, I guess. Also, there's nothing magic about the 'twenty-seven" shakes. You're not rotating the grate in a circle; you're just shaking it about an inch each way. Also, how do you dispose of your ashes? We just had an ash pile and added ours to those made by our ancestors. Over the decades they seemed completely innocuous.
Anyway, I appreciate your contribution to atmospheric CO2, an essential plant food that has greened the planet and helped to feed the whole world over the past fifty or so years. It also has helped avoid the plant die-off that occurs at low atmospheric CO2 levels (below 150ppm), which at 400 ppm, we are now very close-to. In retirement, I live on a small acreage and don't burn coal anymore, but I do try to burn a large brush pile at least a couple of times a year, keeping my woods clean and nice. Just doing my part to save the planet.
Anyway, well done, Sir!
Man I really wanna find a tiny one of these for my 20x20' basement.. coal is the best!
The Chubby isn’t very big, would work great in your basement 🙂
@@cabininthewoods517 well I'd agree, except for that I've already got floor 1/2 heated just fine with a Fisher woodstove except in the coldest winter months.. really just looking to heat the floor of room in the cold end so I don't gotta have the warm end be 120°f when it's -5°f and windy outside.. (living room and bedroom is in the cold end on floor 1-2) just want to more evenly heat the place and not have to burn so much wood so I really don't wanna overestimate the heat need here or I'm gonna have it being 90° in the whole house with both stoves at low idle instead of it being 120° in one end and 70° in the other with the Fisher cranking at max. I think if you were to see the layout you'd understand.
We have a big coal and wood stove with a back boiler we cook and heat the water and radiators and sometimes we use coke but that burns very hot so we mix it one log two coal and one shovel of coke last 4 hours
Good strategy!
I use anthracite for forging, interesting use for it
When I moved into my house a few years ago, there was no gas, so I bought a wood and coal stove. If I want to burn coal, I can add a funnel that slowly feeds the coal to the fire over 12 hours. It's really convenient and gives a stable heat for months in a row. I usually clean the whole stove once a month, because there tend to be stones mixed with the anthracite (and they collect at the bottom).
This year, the price of anthracite has tripled (in Europe). Luckily, I bought enough coal for the next 3 winters, but still, I try to save them only for the days where the temperature goes below freezing (so maybe I can squeeze 4 winters out of them). The price of wood-briquets only went up with 50%, so I tend to use these when it's not freezing outside...
A pity, because it's really convenient to heat with coal!
Sorry to hear you’re dealing with those price issues! There’s definitely a vested interest in cranking up the price of anthracite artificially these days. Glad you’re still able to use it for now!
Neat. Heating with coal isn’t common here in northern Michigan so it’s interesting to see how other people do it. Looks like a lot less work than my wood stove, curious about running costs and if you buy it local or have it delivered for the season?
If only there were more anthracite coal left in the world...
In South Africa this was a normal way to heat our homes etc. I recall that the poor would collect what had fallen off the trains along the tracks. We are still able to continue to do this if we want to.
Very cool, thanks for sharing! It’s a great way to heat. I have a sister originally from South Africa 🙂
I went back to wood after numb nuts took office. Coal became very scarce and really expensive. It doubled in price.
Hopefully it changes soon.
@@cabininthewoods517 it probably will change soon. The price will go up some more.
Oh my gosh.
Blashak coal is the absolute Best.
I know!
I use it myself!
It really is!