Does any one know if you can feed a bricklined stove with small amounts of coal? Just a thought? We were talking aout it at work last night if we livved in kentuc. wv if it would be more cost effective.
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The old days when the stoves were built to burn anything from peat, coal, wood etc are gone, most modern stoves can't take the heat that coal puts out. Mine appearantly couldn't even take the heat that wood puts out (I overfired it and warped and cracked it some locations) Alot fool around with it supplementing coal, but unless your stove is designed as coal/wood burner, the short answer is no.
Kind of what I was getting at. If I had one of the old heavy simple steel stoves, like a Garrison..I would throw a handful of nut coal it at night to extend the burn times. (less than a coffee can full). These new stoves...I would not even say the word "coal" in the same room as them.
I have an old plate steel sierra in my shop but my englander 13 is a plate steel stove too. I like the englander too good to ruin it all though it sees 700 top temp often.
Funny. This christmas I got coal in my stocking. Seriously. My mother in law put a small chunk in as a joke. It was about the size of a silver dollar. Anyway. after I got home I was about to just toss it outside when I got the idea to put it in my stove. I had a hunch it was not really coal, but just a black rock. Well, it sure burned! I thought it was kind of fun. It was so small I cant comment on its heat output. But that little rock burned for a long time then was just a pile of fine ash when I poked it an hour or so later.
Todd
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