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Post by Beerwiser on Mar 26, 2021 18:36:47 GMT -6
Anyone have any experience with them? I just picked up coal and it has doubled since last time and going up another 18/tonne April 1. I looked into them briefly, but all the ones I looked at were self contained furnace style things. I am after just the burner to heat the boiler that I just rebuilt.
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Post by lanwickum on Mar 26, 2021 18:49:51 GMT -6
westbrosinc.com/These guys sell the whole furnaces or parts. Might be able to get a burner and stuff that would work from them. I have a Lanair MX150 that works well in my shop. They do require some maintenance and regular tuning to keep them burning good. At last mine does. I use all sort of oils from gear lube to hydraulic oil to synthetic. I expect a bit of tuning.
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Post by Albertabuck on Mar 26, 2021 19:02:09 GMT -6
Where you getting your coal at these days? It was my friend for many years, my old place heated the house with a Marvel stoker and also used a lot in the school house heater in the garage. Whitewood at Wabamun all went for hell in late eighties, more clay that coal at times, got a few loads from Warburg, was good coal but was insanely priced. Then got dealing with Egg Lake, was owned by North American Road, they had for firing their asphalt plants. That was good stuff and reasonably priced. Sometime in early 2Ks they shut down, something with environment. They had colonies coming even from Sask with superbees that coal had that good of reputation. Now what is there left, Dodds still going there somewhere around Toefield? Used to be one not far from me at Thorhild, but it shut down thirty years ago, reminants of it are still there along 63, memories of days gone by.
Would really like to get a few ton, miss having it for thawing ground ect, and would love to find a place for my old Waterbury school heater to do its thing, kind of miss some of that. Don't miss the carrying ashes out of the basement daily or the dust in the house, but the old house had been built by my grandfather, was all hardwood on main floor, was so nice and warm even with bare feet when that old stoker was whirling away downstairs when it was -40 lol. Be like 90 in the basement lol.
Guess I grew up with it, learned how to fire a stove as a child, on that note even have my grandmother's stove, was brand new when Grampa built that house, 1939, big full size Beach, cream and white, with the water tank on the one side, I've had it for years now, tucked away inside one the steel rig shacks in the yard, that thing hasn't seen fire since late 70s.
Sorry for derailing your thread with my memories, you triggered something I guess lol.
I got interest in the oil thing too. If nothign else, guess it aint worth anything, got 300 gallons I need to relocate.
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Post by Beerwiser on Mar 26, 2021 19:18:47 GMT -6
I am getting my coal from Doods, 35 miles straight south of me which is nice. Been using theirs for as long as I have been using coal, be pushing 20 years now. I bought a bunch of cast iron burn heads from the thorhild mine years ago when they had their auction. I was going to buy the remaining coal, but you had to load it. Great for the local guys, had lots of 20-30 tonne. Now you got me thinking, I should have asked how much lump coal is. Still use that in the shop on occasion. I remember my old man seeing the stoker coal I was getting and said they gave that to the pigs as no one wanted it. How things have changed.
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