Best vid on lighting old stoves I've found

Wow what a great video. I learned more in this one than the majority of the others I have watched. If KZfaq isn't boosting this then they are out of their minds

Thank you for a very informative video. I have my late grandparents 1920-30 Atlanta pot belly stove that they used to heat their kitchen in the morning for many years. It's in excellent condition considering it's age. I'm getting the chimney sections, fire proof wall material and base to install it in a 10 x 20 cabin. You answered the questions I had about stoking the stove with coal. Thank you again for your video. :)

You're making this process a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Get yourself a bag of Matchlight charcoal or use the map gas torch to get a few briquets of regular charcoal going in the bottom. Once that's going add two or three scoops of the nut coal. That'll fire up pretty fast. Then add your stove coal up to the top of the pot, close the flue, and close the intake until it's 1/8th open or less. Then don't fool with it and you'll be good to go. *When an experienced wood stove user switches to coal there is a tendency to "over work" the stove. Wood stoves require a lot of fiddling with over the course of the day. Coal stoves do not. Get it set and leave it alone. Nice video.

The air intake in the door at the fire box is for cooling fire if stove get too hot

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences; very helpful.😊

That is a neat looking stove. I've been burning a stoker for the past 4 years now. If you want to be able to leave the house for over a day then invest in a good stoker. I have a new hand fed in the barn that I'm waiting to install in the house next season.

Very informative. Thank you for taking the time to share this process.

I heat with rice. Have a Harman Magnum Stoker stove and other that it being a project to get going and dusty, its great. I can get 2-3 days out of one load most of the time. it gets lit around thanksgiving and then run it into march non stop

Thanks for the great video!!

Great video, thanks for sharing ! Thumbs up !

Great tips! I was struggling keeping it going. No more! Thanks

Great video! Greetings from the Netherlands 👍🏻

Cool information I've been looking for I got a potbelly in my garage here in Havana Arkansas I just need to put more pipe on it to vent outside. I have run it in here on coal and it didn't stink or kill me... Bobby

Please advise; what for brand is your beautiful vintage coal appliance? She's a real work horse! Obviously NOT a cosmetic "restoration " you put on display. Love it. Thanks for taking the time to put this video together. Many of us appreciate your efforts 😊

This was helpful. Thank you. I fought qith this yesterday and dumped a whole bucket too early in amd was like pretty mad. LOL. Dont you need a barometric damper for safety on there in case it gets windy and runs away?

Gotta same one nice..

Hi I'm rick just bought a stove like yours. Watched your video and love the coal burning idea. I never thought of it. I'm missing my shaker grate so I wanted to ask what size is yours and if its similar to mine because I have to make my own im thinking because I can't find one online. My stove grate hole is 11" diameter give or take a little. Just wanted to know if you have a similar size

I'll give my advice on starting a coal stove.. Clean stove good Put coal in firebox. I use corn cobs soaked in kerosene, then leave them drip out. Put corncobs in ashbox, under grating, add some pallet wood onto of cobs. Light cobs and walk away,come back in 5-7 minutes. Coal will be crackling(burning). Set draft,walk away.. This way is much,much quicker and easier,flames from cobs and pallets go up thru grate,under and through coal and ignite it easily..fire always burns up,not down.your way goes against that fact by lighting onto of coal,my way goes with the fact by lighting underneath the coal. The cobs and pallet wood under create a draft up which takes flame with it.. The cobs/wood turn to ash anyways,just as they should.. Think about it for a minute and try it. Also I clean my chimney without climbing on the roof,most use a "t" shaped cleanout,which let's brush only go 1 way,vertical or horizontal. I made a stainless "+" shaped joint with 2 caps,rear and bottom.i let my fire go almost out the ladt night of the month,then in the morning pop both caps off,run brush up chimney,then from outside into stove,takes roughly 2 minutes,then add coal and open bottom draft,got heat back in 10 minutes. I tried to get my + made by chimney companies,but they all said it would close the cleaning side of thier business..

thanks, I think I am going to burn wood, it seems easier. I bought a OLD pot belly, but it's kinda of big. Has the air vent wheel and door on top, and a cover for the shaker grate (much more primitive than yours for sure) - the seller said it was dirty so ok for a garage which is my plan

Damn 390 a ton? Where? Sorry um I know it's quite a bit later but I'm up in New York paying 500 per ton. Did it change down there too?

Sounds as though you are waiting to long to shake and floss your grates when it goes out with coal still in the firebox. Everything that I've seen says that shaking and flossing your grates every 12 hours is key.

Can you burn charcoal in it? Im assuming it wouldn't last long at all but its a curiosity that nobody has answered for me

Help, bought a new old style potbelly stove caboose type, my issue is that it's scary seeing the bottom glowing red. I don't care to see it glowing red, seems unsafe what is your opinion on this?

I want to know if you have any company in your area that sales anthracite coal and deliver to Ga, 5 minutes from Chattanooga TN. Tim S.

wow you fill it up to the top with coal

can you put the whole bag coal in your pot belly stove

i like wood its free just your time