Looking at Harmon Pellet stove/inserts/coal stokers ?

[Bioburner]

Let's just say I'm not even considering a gas burning stove, especially since we have propane on site but not natural gas. The price of propane is as bad as oil here.

Propain here is still under $2. Have less than $300 in the propain backup heater.

 

[alternativeheat]

Propain here is still under $2. Have less than $300 in the propain backup heater.

Hmm, well not here. So high oil, high coal, high propane, no natural gas on site. Lowes still has the best deal on pellets around here if you know which one are the good ones that is. They carry three brands all the same price. Right now I'd say since it takes more pellets to make the same heat as coal, the two are fairly equal in price actually, as it stands right now. Who knows after the EPA gets done screwing around with coal. But hey, I'm enjoying the heat this evening from my coal stove. While we were chatting back and forth I stoked it up, all full for the night now. i may just dumb the flame down a bit later with a quick layer on top.

 

[tjnamtiw]

Been looking at the Reading Allegheny Stoker, not that I don't love my home made jobber built 30 years ago. I've read about the Keystoker's online. If I just knew coal was stable in these parts. The wife is convinced coal is either going or going too high on price and I'm convinced it works just great. Damn, back in the conundrum !.

Yea, the Allegheny is a nice stove. My brother in law has a Keystoker for years now and loves it. Leisure Line makes nice stoves too. Every one of them puts out double the btu's that pellet stoves do. I hear what your wife is saying too, but hopefully this Socialist Communist BS will be a thing of the past soon and we can go back to being Americans.

 

[richg]

I had a P61A and it was a mean heater. Not the most attractive stove out there, but it was reliable and tough as shoe leather. With the hopper extension it could hold 120 lbs of pellets. With the bottom feeding setup, it could burn rocks (OK, maybe it couldn't burn rocks, but it could handle low quality pellets and corn withe ease). Very easy to clean. I had a Quad 1200, got sick of it and bought the P61A. One of the few good decisions I've made in life

 

[alternativeheat]

Yea, the Allegheny is a nice stove. My brother in law has a Keystoker for years now and loves it. Leisure Line makes nice stoves too. Every one of them puts out double the btu's that pellet stoves do. I hear what your wife is saying too, but hopefully this Socialist Communist BS will be a thing of the past soon and we can go back to being Americans.

I'll continue to heat with what I have for a while and see where it all goes but these things get entrenched, tough to say if it would ever turn around again really. She feels the same as you but meanwhile it's all about not knowing where it will go or how big the changes might be to begin with. We are looking for a 20+ year solution and you know the attack on coal isn't likely to just stop. ibn todays climate you even have to be careful what you say

I had a P61A and it was a mean heater. Not the most attractive stove out there, but it was reliable and tough as shoe leather. With the hopper extension it could hold 120 lbs of pellets. With the bottom feeding setup, it could burn rocks (OK, maybe it couldn't burn rocks, but it could handle low quality pellets and corn withe ease). Very easy to clean. I had a Quad 1200, got sick of it and bought the P61A. One of the few good decisions I've made in life

I notice that you went back to Quad for a wood stove purchase. Did the P61 ultimately not cut it or is there some other reasoning behind that move ?