I drive truck for a living and work on small engines and alot of interesting mechanical things. Nostalgia mostly is why I do what I do...keeping some semblance of yesteryear alive
Hey, It's good to know that you are still kickin'! Been a while since we've heard from you, I believe the last post was about burning anthracite coal in your Morning stove. I'm glad things are working out for you, five acres has plenty of potential, maybe even for a couple wild dipoles! Take care!
Okay so here's a question for you I have very low audio on my Cobra 142 GTL would that be the audio chip causing that problem nor does the meters work properly all I get is constant static it is not normal CB static
I did til I rebuilt a old wilson v58 there is a video or a few on that antenna, astroplane for sale...they work alright but I do like a 5/8 wave better
I have one that I don't think is in quite as bad shape inside... How do you take off the coil cover? I want to use mine for 10m ham radio. Somebody suggested getting rid of the coil completely or bypassing it for that but not sure what to do.
I gave up on it, just looked at the Wilson v58 I made into a maco v58 and I figured I'd just use the aluminum tubing if wind took out my maco. You could bypass it but would have problems with impedance I would assume, look at a maco matching section and look at a super penetrator matching section. You can lengthen or shorten the element to get desired swe
I think you meant coal not coral this video is in a playlist. I do not know why it's getting random views its actually a follow up to other video in the list
I charge this particular stove in the evening and in the morning depending on how cold it is I may do a noon shake and add it all depends if I'm going to be gone for longer than expected I shake down and heap it in center above the brick
Very nice I didn't know people still use cold stoves I have one that was putting out for trash years ago and it was well used meaning the grid that you just shook back and forth was nuked I use it for the past five seven years as a wood stove cuz it had forced air you know pipes are off the back and through the front of it blue air out was nice can you cook on the top but I finally bought a legit wood stove because here in Massachusetts I don't really know where you get cold anymore I know in the past my neighborhood had a lot of houses had cold in them my grandfather's house had cold but it's just staying around no more I don't think here
Just Google anthracite coal dealer near me I belong to a website called nepacrossroads.com and they explain how to burn it, techniques, and stove information. Been a part of that site since 2009. I've read alot of people in New England had the coal chubby stoves and they where popular in your area coal may be expensive getting trucked that far from Eastern pa is why I guess alot of new englanders slacked off on buying coal, I'd rather pay for the coal than risk himney fire with wood stove and all the work that comes with processing enough wood for a season been there done that. Definitely nice to get 22 plus hour burn times with consistent heat output too, you won't see that with a wood stove
you buy coal to make coal got a longer explanation ? i'd like to see why i do make my own coal for activated charcoal. for my daughter i'll give her in pill form, i just crush my charcoal and swallow chunks you get a like 👍
What? Do you know how much work it takes and equipment to harvest enough trees to have heat through the winter? How many times you have to throw wood in a stove to keep the temperature up in a house? Anthracite is a nice hot even heat that lasts up to 36 hours in my stove without adding more unlike wood every 4 hours and risks of chimney fires
I heat my house with it, where I live we have sporadic power outages for downed trees on power lines. So in the winter if you don't have electric your furnace will not work so I keep the coal stove going and I don't need to use a furnace
They were a good idea, but had many problems. One-no power handling, too many places for water to get in, and the relay box. When they worked they were nice. Thanks for the video.
@@keystonecountryboy I know what you mean. Muddbucket UDX483 is a Friend of mine, and he has a You Tube Channel where he has a Frankenstein antenna, made out of different years and makes etc, and talks all over the world on SSB. If you check him out , please let him know I said hello.
As I understand from your video, you can start with Bit coal (easy to light?) and after a while top it off with anthracite? Here in the Netherlands we have anthracite from Wales UK and Bit coal from Poland. Very expensive but I have an obsession with coal.
Old-school trick that my dad taught me: hold a match in front of the baro damper. If the flame sucks toward the flue, you're good to go. You can buy fire-brick pretty cheaply to replace your broken ones. If you take care of the fire every night, you shouldn't need wood to stoke up the fire. Keep a couple road flare on hand. If you get a chimney fire from the creosote catching, throw a flare into the chimney door. The flare will use up all the oxygen and put the chimney fire out. You get it.
You can't find the corner flue blocks made for these old warm morning stoves, the interlock each other in. They aren't in production anymore searched and searched
First, I don't know. But I suspect you could shut the damper some. I guess your stack temperature should be a hint. You could check smoke and CO2. Maybe I expect too much from a basic stove.
I've got an old Bacharach CO2 tester and happen to have the card for stack temp and CO2 readings and the correlated efficiency. It shows a couple or a few types of coal. It's all very fascinating. Thanks for your time and replies.
I live in Pennsylvania and have always burned anthracite I have a stove exactly like yours and I use stove cold if it packs in too tight it will not breathe and burn correct I have had it burned for 5 to 6 months at a time without going out but you do need to bust up the clinkers once in awhile
Yes I'm in western PA about 40 mi from Ohio line, so thr anthracite mines farther east. Cheapest I can find anthracite is 450 a ton bagged on a skid. If I lived close enough I'd just go to the mine and buy bulk. Closest mine to me is all bituminous.and about 30 miles away so I burn anthracite in the colder months and use bit early fall late spring or if I need fast heat plus it's only $70/ton
I was posting these videos to help out some people on stove groups, but apparently the admin on the sites don't want youtube videos posted and they too long for Facebook. Some people where having trouble or wanted to learn or had some real misconceptions about coal, previous videos are of burning anthracite
I've always burned anthracite (NE PA...the stuff practically lays on the ground here - like $200-250/ton. Was $100-150 pre-2020, then the world went stupid). It's great to see someone who appreciates and understands coal. How often do you have to clean the furnace and chimney running bituminous? I'm good once a year in September/October before it runs every day. Also, sweet antenna! I'm a ham, but I'll mess around on 11m once in a while.
Chimney only 6 foot above stove adapter, I have the previous videos to this one are of burning anthracite, it's single wall pipe through metal roof I don't clean it its strait just tap it occasionally, when I'm running anthracite it basically cleans itself
I was at Ft. McCoy, WI, back in 1987 for a short time. They still burned coal to heat the old barracks bldgs (I think most of it was built prior to WWII). You'd go outside and there was a thick yellow smog that hung in the air and it smelled foul (almost took your breath away), must of been the bituminous they were burning.
It depends in mine, anywhere from 6 to 10 if I just let it fuse together and not poke it, definitely lasted till I got home from work to pick it back up unlike the epa wood stove I had for one season chucking wood in every 3 to 4 hours...and be out by time I got home
Definitely alot less work than wood. And the price point is better than anthracite, I burn anthracite primarily but always have bit on hand for like days today in mid 40s where I let it Peter out in the morning then get it going in evening and not have to worry bout getting up through the night
You should try burning lignite. I live in Greece. This is what the power company uses to make electricity. I tried it once. Burns OK, but produces more ash and dirt than what you put in. Smells too.
I had a hand fired, thermostat controlled furnace which used anthracite stove coal. Started a fire in the fall and let it burn out the spring. I didn't have to fiddle with it much other than shovel out the ashes and in the coal in the morning and add a shovel or two in the evening. It was almost self regulating because when it was cold out the draft pull on the chimney was greater. In another house I had an auger fed boiler which used anthracite pea coal. It also had a coil for domestic hot water. The ashes fell into a bucket under the retort. No smoke or back drafts on either. No poking or clinkers either. The furnace could work without electricity but the hot water boiler required current for the auger and water pump.
- Haha... enjoy that warm, efficient, affordable coal stove as long as you can before the liberal, woke, Democrat environmental police find it and shut you down... Spring is just around the corner - L
I'll burn coal as long as I'm able. No smoke like all these woodstoves I see billowing smoke everywhere, my bituminous coal don't even smoke half as bad as some of these woodstoves I see billowing, indor ones and outdoor ones, I drive truck and see it daily around these parts. the libs got their heads so far up their donkeys to see anything lol
We always burnt bituminous here in southern West Virginia. My grandmother had the same warm morning you have. Great heat and alot less work than wood. I now at 49 burn wood because i cant afford the bag coal for primary heat. All you said about wood is very true,but i have pretty easy access to free wood,its just alot of work. Congrats on your stove.
Thank you for the comment, I have burned wood in other indoor stoves, and setting an alarm every few hours was ridiculous. I've built my own log splitters, rebuilt chainsaws, just done with wood for primary heat. You should be able to get bituminous in your region. I still have ¼ ton from November left I'll burn up here soon and do a bituminous video
@@keystonecountryboy we used to buy it by the ton straight from the tipple,but they dont sell it to the public anymore. I cant get bagged coal like you have,but its cost prohibitive for me. My old fisher wood stove holds a burn pretty good with some good seasoned oak. I can easily get 8 hours of sleep. I will admit that keeping a good stock of split wood is tiresome, but it's also good excercise and gets me out in the woods some. I cant complain to much about it.
I am 72 and grew up in PA. My job as the eldest child of parents who worked long hours, often at night, was to keep my younger siblings fed , safe and taken care of AND to cook, clean etc. Plus filling the coal furnace with shovels of coal in the basement and maintaining an even flow of heat. I also helped my father keep the furnace clean. Your video brings back those memories. We had iron floor vents that the hot air rise through and we positioned furniture far enough away to not burn but also to keep the little kids away to not get bad burns on those iron vents. We lived in a simpler time.
I heat with wood, but I'm really considering putting in a coal heater, just due to the convenience of being able to sleep through the night rather than getting up 2 to 3 times to feed the fire.
A different you tube video showed cleaning exact same engine motor/gearing using ultra sonic tank. I tried it and now it’s my favorite using the tank. Just keep windings and electrical out of solution.😊😊
Okay, you captured this with a cell phone. Suggestion when capturing video, always hold the camera horizontal. Every TV screen, monitor screen, computer screen, movie theater screen, are orientated horizontally. In videos where the camera is vertical, as yours, then played back on the aforementioned devices the left one-third, and right one-third of the screen is cut off. It causes the video appearing as a stick video, tall and narrow. We humans, maybe all lifeforms, view our surroundings considerably more horizontal than vertical. Holding a cellphone or camera vertically the video produced is similar to looking through a tight keyhole or wearing horse blinders. Also, a video captured vertically becomes spatially disorientating. A vertical video is not at all a pleasure to watch.
Ran one just like that. All a round good machine. I did dragline work digging marina’s and ponds. Also did clamshell and hook work on a barge building docks and sea walls.
