How to Light an Anthracite Coal Burning Stove

Since watching your video a few weeks back I have been trying to burn anthracite purchased at TSC in a Brunco Hearthglow coal/wood stove and left unattended through the night the coal goes out. I made a hole in the ash pan which I blow air in and it burns hot but only to go out within a few hours without the blower.

Thankyou! So glad you showed us this. Blows me away you can pile up so much coal and it keeps going. So amazing and how long it'll burn.

Thank you for sharing this information with us 🙌🙌👍🏻👍🏻

No heat like coal heat. Goes right through ya. Makes sense too because America has enough to last thousands of years

Looks great, love it! Sending this to a climate catastrophist friend 👍 😅

I bought a loghouse and it comes with this super old but beautiful coal stove. Im new to this and im so idiot what im doing wrong. So the vent should be closed when the coal starts to burn 😂

12 hours from that much!!???

As a kid we had a coal furnace at home and I remember getting 20 tons delivered before winter. It took up most of the basement. The coal company delivered it through your basement window via a chute. The coal was anthracite, and the pieces were about the size of a handball. It was a chore to have to deal with as you had a long handled coal shovel to scoop the stuff up, and get it to the furnace. I can tell you for a fact, you did not want that fire to go completely out, because it was a PITA to get going again and you froze waiting for the house to warm up. Cleaning out the ashes was also a pain because you would often get a "clinker", which was stuff that would burn and fuse together into a large amorphous mass. Trying to get one out of the furnace was hot and dangerous work. Additionally, sometimes the house would get so hot, if you overloaded it with coal, you would have to open the doors and windows, unless of course you like it 85 degrees inside. We dumped our ashes at the curb. You would never get away with that now. Finally, the last thing with coal was that everyone had a coal furnace back then. When it snowed, you would go out in the morning and every car, and lawn was covered with soot. My mom would always warn us not to eat the snow. Now as an adult I realize why.

Curious why you have both a barometric damper and a butterfly damper in the pipe

How much coal would you burn in a normal winter ??