Home heating with coal
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Coal is one of the most abundant energy sources in the entire world. Coal is formed when dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over a period of time. Is it dirty?? watch till the end of the video and tell me what you think.
I am watching your older videos. You explained the coal stove setup very well. I am a West Virginia coal miner’s daughter so this video was interesting to me.
Wow that is really efficient! I know people that spend more than that just to hear their house never mind shop and garage. Take care, Monique
Yes it sure works good! Thx for watching
Lots of interesting knowledge here...thanks.
Your welcome
Sir great video
Very interesting and informative video. Thanks 😁
Your welcome
loved the video, Stay Safe & Warm, from London Ont.
Thank you!
cool video
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The system I'm installing now is very cheap and very basic. We have a yurt homestead in Mongolia. Our first winter we heated with electricity (underfloor) supplemented with wood stoves but it cost us a fortune in electricity. The wood stoves burn too quickly and we never figured out how to get a long burn.
So this year we're installing a coal furnace and 4 radiators. The coal furnace is quite small but I'm assured it will be sufficient for our needs (2 yurt, a bathroom and insulated shipping container workshop. The coal furnace will be in a partition of another container.
Total cost for parts and installation is US$2600. We spent more on electricity for the year. Coal is US$1 per bag (25kg, I believe). It's subsidized for residents and also on a quota system so we can get 6 bags per week and no more. But you can stockpile your quota in the shoulder months for the colder months. Our coldest months drop to -40C/F on the coldest nights.
It's a lot more work for us. The feeding of coal and cleaning of ash is totally manual. As a bonus/backup we're having an electric heating element installed if we need to be away for a day or more so the heating will still work without using coal. It can use wood too but coal burns longer and hotter. Apparently, half to one bag a day is enough. We'll see. The important thing is we should break even in year 1 or 2 then save a lot.
Compared to you we are very small. We have about 107 m/2 of heated area.
Very interesting, May I ask how you ended up in Mongolia? Or are you from there?
@@countrysideacreshomestead2008 the short answer is a woman. I married a Mongolian in 2010 and moved to Mongolia from London, UK a year later. I loved the country so much that I stayed even after breaking up.
Now I'm with another Mongolian woman. The country life suits me well. It's lovely here yet harsh. Similar to the Canadian prairies or Rockies but probably colder. We're obsessed with survival in Winter and have multiple backups. Just in case.
Wow, thank you for sharing!
I'd like to visit Mongolia one day, lots of history in the east!
@@countrysideacreshomestead2008 Yes, you should. It's very different here. That's why I like it.
As the owner of a dump truck and tractor / end dump trailer combo I would deliver the coal for $10/ton if you were 30 miles or less away from the coal yard but you’d be the one buying it. If you’re getting coal for $10/ton for the coal plus delivery then that coal yard is giving you coal for free.
I pick up a used coal boiler and a auger have to get a hopper next .
Thats why i was asking on how to hook it up .
Was going to go wood, but like your set up lol
Ya it worked good, we no longer live there but I'd assume it's still going
OK, I am sold.
thats an awesome setup!
Thank you, we like it
If that's a out door boiler just run Pex around the coal bunker and insulate the the whole thing then put on lagging. Nothing will ever freeze unless your power goes out and you run out of generator diesel.
did you say $100 per ton?
Did you retrofit a stoker to an existing outdoor boiler? Great idea. Bet it burns nice and clean.
No they sell them like that.
It worked great and definitely burned clean.
Hows does it hook up to the hopper with the auger ?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean... the stove has an auger in it that extends out the back and into the hopper
What i mean is when how does auger Attach to the hopper.
Does it just sit under it ?
Ah ic.
The auger is stuck to a hopper that hangs under the overhead bin full of coal. As the coal augers out it makes room for more coal to fall down out of bin.
Thank you and it a Awesome video.
Thanks for the video 👍 What brand is it?
Your welcome.
That stove was a portage & main.
1 inch line can only transfer 75,000 BTUs so max output only 150,000 BTUs . I'm sure it could output alot more . If it had more lines or bigger water lines. Interesting system. Also check trench heat loss .
Ya it was a neat system.
@@countrysideacreshomestead2008 was?
@@GrizC We sold that farm in April of 2020, moved to our current homestead. I would assume the system still works great.
That set up is heating a lot of places. That’s good. I thought coal would cost more
Depending where you live, it might cost more. We are not very far from the coal mines (5 hrs) trucking is what gets you.
I was thinking that same thing
Took bad you can't recycle the ash to burn
How is the heat getting to the places you're heating
Is it heating the water then pumping it under ground to your place?
Where in Sask. is this ? Love this heating system !!
That was when we lived in northeastern Saskatchewan near Nipawin.
@@countrysideacreshomestead2008 ok, nice to know , to bad we never crossed paths , we started homesteading/off gridding 2 years ago .We are 30 mins. south of P.A. SK.
Perhaps consider enclosing the bottom of the coal silo. You'd be surprised how effective eliminating wind chill would solve the coal freeze problem.
Great suggestion, we actually tried that for awhile with styrofoam panels but it didnt help like we hoped it would.
We no longer live on that property though, we have moved and are working on a new house.
@@countrysideacreshomestead2008 still using the coal I hope. I've got a modified coal octopus stove operating like a gasifier burning wood. I'm hoping to convert it to a boiler before next winter. Best of luck to you!
great video !!!! burn it. i run a nat gas power plant and i love not having the black lung . if i had to, id work where ever . id heat the house any day with that pile of good ness . Greta and go make diamonds with her attitude ;-)
Sure burns great!
How do you light it?
Tiger torch worked great!
We burn wood pellets some thing similar to that only only you don't hear them burning the pellets are blowing into a big upside tent thing there is no smoke from them they heat the under floor heating plus all the hot water that we want the pellet burner is inside the double garage and the big tent thing is in a out shed the pellets are a compresses sawdust about half inch diameter and about 1 inch long they are fed into the burner the same way as your coal
I've seen those, a friend of ours put one in and he loves it.
Bags of pellets are expensive like 5 -10 atleast for a 50 pound bag a bag lasts a day thats a waste
What do you do with the ashes?
We no longer live on that property but when we did we just spread the ashes over the land
Coal rules
How do you elevate coal into hopper bin?
We used an 8" grain auger.
Where is Saskatchewan can you buy that coal.? is it the same stuff blacksmiths use.
We got our coal.from Dodd's Coal Mine in Ryley AB.
Not sure about blacksmithing .
What a scam that is coal is to buy in Canada it’s only $60 a ton in Montana compared to double that in Canada the only way is bring an Indian with you and then you don’t have to pay the scam BS carbon tax and gst or move to Montana it’s cheaper and not a communist country like Canada.
Would love to move to the states, too bad it's not that easy
Did you say. You used 30 ton per year?
Also you mentioned $ 10.00 per ton
Yes 30 ton per year and it was $100/ton .
So approximately $3000 / year
How many btu,s is that
Good question, I'm actually not sure.
We no longer own that property, we moved across the country and are building a new homestead in Ontario.
Where to buy this furnace?
There was a dealer called Heat Smart in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan that sold them.
@@countrysideacreshomestead2008 thank you.
@@countrysideacreshomestead2008 How cold does it get there often ? people who saw this says this is not compatible in colder climates.
Hah it gets really cold there. Winter starts in October and stays till April. We seen -50 celius there one morning
How is coal price today?
I have no idea, we no longer live there.
А у нас везде говорят что уголь запретили в Европе и других странах и только Россия и Беларусь вредные и пользуются углем
Soft coal or hard coal?
Hard I believe
2:15 Это аренда?!
Oooooh! THAT Greta!😂
lol
I heard coal gets stupid hot thats cool if it does
Yes it burns very hot and efficient