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rayttt
Feeling the Heat
i havent had a chance to look at it in person yet. It has some surface rust ill post a link.
http://poconos.craigslist.org/for/4232839811.html
http://poconos.craigslist.org/for/4232839811.html
rayttt
Feeling the Heat
A little rust shouldn't be a big deal..nothing some steel wool and Black Paint can't fix.
More importantly is do all the motors run (quietly) or not etc.
For 450 ...Im thinking if your mechanically inclined anything wrong with it could be fixed.
More importantly is do all the motors run (quietly) or not etc.
For 450 ...Im thinking if your mechanically inclined anything wrong with it could be fixed.
tjnamtiw
Minister of Fire
OMG, YOU LIVE IN SCRANTON, for crying out loud
! COAL.......COAL.............COAL! $170 a ton in Tamaqua with 50% more heat per pound than pellets! AND you get a stove that puts out twice the btu's of ANY pellet stove! OMG! My brother in law just picked up 4 tons!
Now that's my usual pitch when I see anyone from the coal regions talking about pellet stoves.
Seriously, unless you want to single handedly save the earth (the Chinese sure aren't and they are burning OUR coal), you need to look closely at the beautiful coal stoves, some of which are stokers, being made and sold all around you. If I were living back up there, I'd have another coal stove in an instant! No worries with outside storage. Just as clean as pellets if you treat the handling of the ashes properly. Just not the same as the big monsters we remember in our grandfather's cellar.
http://www.keystoker.com/
http://www.leisurelinestoves.com/
http://www.readingstove.com/
http://www.alaskastove.com/
! COAL.......COAL.............COAL! $170 a ton in Tamaqua with 50% more heat per pound than pellets! AND you get a stove that puts out twice the btu's of ANY pellet stove! OMG! My brother in law just picked up 4 tons!Now that's my usual pitch when I see anyone from the coal regions talking about pellet stoves.
Seriously, unless you want to single handedly save the earth (the Chinese sure aren't and they are burning OUR coal), you need to look closely at the beautiful coal stoves, some of which are stokers, being made and sold all around you. If I were living back up there, I'd have another coal stove in an instant! No worries with outside storage. Just as clean as pellets if you treat the handling of the ashes properly. Just not the same as the big monsters we remember in our grandfather's cellar.http://www.keystoker.com/
http://www.leisurelinestoves.com/
http://www.readingstove.com/
http://www.alaskastove.com/
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locally best I can do is $210/ton... that being said I don't have a chimney so I would need a power vent which isnt in the cards right now.
tjnamtiw
Minister of Fire
At your $210 a ton and an 80% efficient coal burner, you're talking $10.50 per million btu. With pellets at $250 a ton and an 80% efficient stove, you're talking $19 per million btu's. That would buy that power vent pretty quickly! You're about to dump $450 on a very used stove that probably will need serious work and more money.
http://www.buildinggreen.com/calc/fuel_cost.cfm
http://www.buildinggreen.com/calc/fuel_cost.cfm
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