Using readily available ingredients--sticks, small logs, and paper--coal can be added in 15 minutes in this Hitzer Model 983 anthractie coal stove insert.
I use Charcoal! Just get the quick lite charcoal from your grocery store, throw it in the stove. I put on about two layers of charcoal and once this is lit then just add a starter layer of coal. Once the coal is lite, then you can add as much coal as you want.
I think forge coal is harder to light than the anthracite coal that I get for home heating. For a forge I would imagine that it would require some good coals from your wood fire to get started.
Lol, have to be careful doing that. I had a fireball shoot out of my stove. Knocked me on my ass! I've used it a couple of times with Charcoal, and once the charcoal lights I throw on regular Anthracite Coal for heating. The charcoal burns hot enough to light the Anthracite.
Thanks for this video . As a Newbie , I had no idea how to proceed to get a coal fire going . I have just starting living in a house in Northern China and the only heating is a coal fired boiler to heat the 8 rooms . I think the coal used locally is about 4 inch diameter from what I have seen on delivery trucks . That might be a bit harder to get started . But you have given me some good tips . Thanks !
I have a brunco add-on furnace and this year is the first year of burning anthracite . My firebox is quite larger than your average coal stove but this method works very well just takes me a little longer . Great video !!
Hey thanks for this vid. I do not use a stove but i use a fireplace. it really helped me get the fire going really fast and as you said paper to sticks to logs then coal worked very well.
I just bought two bags of anthracite and didn't realise it was going to be little nuggets, and also hard to ignite. Will try it tonight and see how I get on, but worried I should of just bought standard smokeless boal as I usually do.
Perhaps I am just lucky, but simply put an initial layer of single crumpled sheets of newspaper, followed by a layer of wood scrapes from wood projects, followed by a layer of coal. I put a single piece of paper on top of the coal and light it to warm up the air in the chimney to increase the draft. I open the bottom door, light the paper and when the fire is established, close the bottom door, set my vents to where I want them, and the house is warm. I would love to go solar, but coal is at this point more efficient cost wise.
anthracite hard to light and hard to extinguish. I used to light up a anthracite furnace, when i was a child, but I would not add so many big branches before adding anthracite coal, a bit lavish I think...=)
I do the same but soak everything in some heating oil or diesel fuel first and no large logs like you used. Once I have hot coals from the wood I add some coal I've also soaked. Once that's taken off I just use straight Anthracite. Takes about an hour and my fire is burning and I have full heat in my boiler in about 3hrs and a warm house.
@@josephbryer4596 just easy. I learned that method back in the 1980's as a teen firing up steam locomotives and steam tractors. Works well and makes it so easy. However, DO NOT USE GASOLINE!
Excellent and thorough video - I am a wood stove insert owner - I've split by hand over 20 cords in about a year it's too laborious - when I get my next "stove" it will be coal but can one burn wood in this stove as well meaning if you did not have coal to burn? I have 3 acres of fully wooded land and well wood is not going to be a cost but --- wood burns too fast up ever 3 hrs to reload it. I'm looking for a stove that can burn both "AT THE SAME TIME" - thanks.
I've learned something over the yrs with the same concern as yours. I've found that a well or over insulated home will play a big part in saving time and wood. With serveral inches of batting, sealed floor seams, walls and roof joints, will definitely save on the amount of wood you burn on a daily & weekly basis. A well maintained stove will give you more BTUs than you ever imagined. I've gone from a cord every 2 wks to 1/3 a wk, so much so i've had to split my logs down to 1/2 the size that I normally use. Wished to God I had learned that yrs ago...good luck!
Wood stove only pull air from above? I dont know where you heard that. We have a Blaze King Princess model and it pulls air from the back bottom of the wood stove. We are upgrading to a Hitzler 254 though (once it shows up lol) as coal is much cheaper up here then wood now.
Anthracite isn't that hard to light. I've been burning it for year just using a few shavings of dry wood and maybe some larger kindling about the diameter of a finger then a shovel full of small coal and it takes off. Maybe 5 minutes tops. That's if you have to chop up the kindling.
30 min is a lot of time. I guess im lazy :p I usually spent no more then 5 min on it. The way i do it, I start with a clean fire box. I make `airy snow balls`of news paper on the entire firebox floor .I put a layer of of finely chopped sticks on the paper.Sticks no thicker then your thumb. On top of the wood a fine layer of coal. And then light it up. Once the coal gets hot. Every 5 minute i put a new thin later of coal. You use a lot lets resources and time. Im a bit of a pyromaniac :-p
Individual pieces of coal aren’t cut. You order them in the size you, want with names as follows: stove coal is the biggest, then egg, nut (a.k.a. chestnut), pea, buckwheat, rice is the smallest. I’m not sure what “smokeless ovals” are, but cutting them sounds very tedious. I am burning nut coal.
Anthracite rice size will pass thru a 1/4 inch mesh. Go to this link: heatinghelp.com/assets/documents/73.pdf. Here is a link with images (scroll just over halfway down page): 2railoscale.blogspot.com/2015/02/thoughts-on-modeling-coal-operations.html
The fire stays lit from October to April... ... so "every time I had to build a fire" means ONCE per year. Your brief comment is very effective at displaying your arrogance and lack of knowledge--well done!
some of the commenters just don't have a clue as to the benefits of a coal fire. They don't have a clue about civility either! What size coal are you using? Nut?
Dude, seriously? 9:12 minutes?! Build a fire and put coal on top. There. You still have about 9 min and 10 seconds to spare. You could turn a one liner into a monologue.
I know people from your area that get good coal in southern Kentucky. Go to nepacrossroads (dot) com and search on coal suppliers in Kentucky and Tennessee, if you haven't already looked there. Good luck.
Not sure why....but I would guess 95% of all youtube wood stove vid tutorials have dirty glass. You would think they would take 5 min and clean the glass.
