I’m moving soon out to Lancaster,WI as my Tomahawk project is on hold. I’m buying a small house and it has a higher efficiency gas forced air. The chimney is still there and in great shape. The Amish in the area prefer coal. I’m trying to get a line on supply. I have been storing an old y but goody all cast iron coal stove. I’m interested to see how it works.
Welcome to SW WI CRC! We might have to meet up and chat. I’ll bring chuck100 with me.
Don’t know a thing about coal.
Coal is just really dirty, you will want to get the oiled stuff to cut down on the dust.
Anthracite,burns hot and clean,if you get a chance cook a pizza over it!
I bought a Lange Danish woodstove 40 some years ago and a friend also bought a coal stove from the same place on a package deal.
His stove really didn’t generate much heat on wood but did fine on coal. What he used was a bi-product petroleum refining that came in 50lb bags. Bought it at the feed mill.
I just burn coal to charge my electric car. 
If you play your cards right Santa will bring you some.
If you play your cards right Santa will bring you some.
ALways works for me.
40 years ago my dad put in a wood/coal burning stove. I liked that if I poured a bucket in the stove at maybe 10-11pm it was still burning at 6am and I could pour another bucket in before school and it was good to go for the day. With wood that was never the case. I know even though it was a coal rated stove the grates at some point cracked and had to be replaced. It has been a long time, but I think my dad had said he switched to a different type and it burned hotter causing them to crack.
Mrs. Grouse’s parents had coal heat in the UK, they were one of the last on the street that still took deliveries from the coal man in the 1990s.
By contrast, my family burned wood since the embargo years of the 1970s and there was plenty of wood available with Dutch Elm Disease taking off.
Between the two, I will tell you that coal is a massive PITA because it’s so damn dirty. The dust even from bagged coal gets everywhere. Mrs. Grouse’s family had a coal shed and the coal man delivered bags of coal to the shed, but just the process of bringing a bag of coal in and opening it to add to the skip was guaranteed to leave black coal marks and dust on whatever you were wearing. You also get dust in the room where the fire is just from the process of adding the coal.
I do love the smell of coal burning, it reminds me of England and Christmases spent there, but I wouldn’t want to mess with dirty coal if I didn’t absolutely have to.
I don’t know about the rest of you but with heating costs expected to jump up another 20 + percent this year, I am thinking of ways to burn all the junk mail I get everyday …. Hey, I can dream
Paulski
1. Dirty
2. The “good” stuff is expensive
3. Wood is readily available and a better alternative
I Love the Lancaster Wisconsin area. The “Flying Arrows” were the epitome of small school football and football culture for a long time with some of the greatest coaching in the Midwest. Their head coach is in the National Football HOF with like 8 state championships.
We are already getting used to lower house temps and its working out fine. More blankets at night. I just hope the voters are considering all this..
I’ve got a butt load of that christmas coal somewhere.
I’ve got a butt load of that christmas coal somewhere.
Exactly, how much is a butt load? 
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>chuck100 wrote:</div>
I’ve got a butt load of that christmas coal somewhere.Exactly, how much is a butt load?
It depends on if you’re using the metric system or the Imperial system.
As you would expect, a metric buttload is equal to 1000 metric shitloads.
In the good old totally logical Imperial system, one Imperial buttload equals 1496 Imperial Shitloads or 13560 Imperial shitpotsfull.
Grouse
I’m moving soon out to Lancaster,WI as my Tomahawk project is on hold. I’m buying a small house and it has a higher efficiency gas forced air. The chimney is still there and in great shape. The Amish in the area prefer coal. I’m trying to get a line on supply. I have been storing an old y but goody all cast iron coal stove. I’m interested to see how it works.
Plan on covering your motor vehicles wherever the coal is burning. The ash/soot from burned coal landing on your paint job then mixing with night’s dew will create an acid mess that can eat thru your vehicle’s paint job and rust the heck out of everything…. as well as your neighbor’s vehicles.
We are already getting used to lower house temps and its working out fine. More blankets at night. I just hope the voters are considering all this..
The house stays set at 69 all winter regardless of politics, who is in office, or what CNN or FOX news anchors have to say. Energy costs do suck though for sure.
One thing people should be doing is avoid getting locked into contracts or buying in small quantities (when it comes to propane). Having someone come fill it whenever you are low on a small 500 gallon tank is a contracted guarantee they will screw you. Buy in bulk when the price is low. If you don’t have the means to store it, talk to farmers, small businesses, and other people in the area who may use large quantities and buy in with them on their next shipment.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>suzuki wrote:</div>
We are already getting used to lower house temps and its working out fine. More blankets at night. I just hope the voters are considering all this..The house stays set at 69 all winter regardless of politics, who is in office, or what CNN or FOX news anchors have to say. Energy costs do suck though for sure.
One thing people should be doing is avoid getting locked into contracts or buying in small quantities (when it comes to propane). Having someone come fill it whenever you are low on a small 500 gallon tank is a contracted guarantee they will screw you. Buy in bulk when the price is low. If you don’t have the means to store it, talk to farmers, small businesses, and other people in the area who may use large quantities and buy in with them on their next shipment.
That’s a “convenient” setting. A little too spicy for us.
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The green new deal party have a large customer base who live in apartments and don’t pay for their heat directly, it’s rolled in via higher rent. They all think it’s free, so no many are not considering it at all.
My parents are keeping their house at 59 now except when my son is there. Chilly.
What Grouse said.He has the butt load math down to a T.
It works out to a $h!t ton.
CCR i think it would be easier and cheaper to go with wood.
Hit me up if you want to try your luck on the ice down here this winter.
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