Is anyone burning Anthracite coal in a wood burning stove? It seems there should be a way to accomplish this using some sort of cast iron grate. Does anyone know anything about this? Where can I buy a cast iron grate for coal burning? Thanks for any help you can lend.
By Chris D from Lyndhurst, OH
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We just bought a coal grate from Larry Trainer in Bryantville, MA (781) 294-0010. We heat with coal & use gas as the backup. If you want to email me privately thru ThriftyFun, I can help with some of your ?'s.
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I am gradually getting the idea that coal is a bit of work.
Well, I can't help with the grate but I had a coal burning stove as a supplement to my regular heat source. It would burn about 50 pounds of pea coal a day at that time $5 per bag. It worked ok. I would have to clean out the ash draw once a day and store the ash in a metal trash can as the embers could start a fire. I would put the cold embers in a box and put them out for the trash pick up. You can't spread the coal ashes on your lawn or garden. Once a month I would shut down the stove and clean it out then clean the house of coal dust. At the end of the heating season I would clean out the stove and also take down the flue pipe and clean out the ash build up to ready the stove for the next heating season.
You have to be careful burning coal in a wood burning stove because coal burns much hotter than wood and you can burn your stove out or it will burn out faster.
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