Wood / coal furnace

Always thought wood pellet stoves left you captive to the pellet supply makers.

 

I'm going to try it on bigger stumps. The smaller stumps will juat be all dirt. I can shovel the wood chips into my clinker recovery sifter to separate the dirt. The 700 series wear sharp teeth look like they will make some real chunky wood chips.

 

Its not like the coal is going any where or has an expiration date.....it's tens, if not hundreds, of millions of years old. A truck load of coal needs almost no upkeep, maybe just a tarp or shed . Coal is an even better store of energy than propane, and both will last longer than all of us. I've got propane at my house for emergency heat and my Sister heats with it, and I'm planning to add a tank of propane at the barn, soon.

 

Don't store low grade lignite, that shit can spontaneously combust.

 

Not gone for me ! 3 sheds full now (12 cords), and I'm filling a shed for the winter of 23-24 right now. We use 4-6cords/yr depending on the winter.



I used to spray the fill date on the wood, but it faded out bad....so I finally around 2016 started painting it on the posts



What my basement looks like around November when we move 4 cords out of a shed and into the basement for winter.

 

I tried wood chips with used motor oil on them inside the coal furnace, yeah works pretty good.

 

Gotta ask here in SC wood I cut and stored usually only lasts 2 years from the bugs getting in and chewing it up. I cut oak and hickory. How do you keep it from turning into a pile of saw dust

 

I can't speak for coal but I know that having a dogleg configuration in my stove pipe improves stove efficiency.

 

I changed the central heat and A/C air filter after the fall A/C season. It still looks brand new. I think it only kicked on twice.
The coal furnace didn't pay for its self this year like it did last year but it saved at least hundreds of dollars.