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I start mine with brute force. We can't get firelighters here in Mongolia - I'm a British expat - but we can get butane. So I put 20kg of semi-coke briquettes (the approved and cheap coal product we have here) in the burner, put kindling on top, then blast the kindling with a butane torch. Once the wood is burning well, I can close the vents most of the way and it burns all night. My system is not a stove, but a boiler, which feeds 5 radiators filled with anti-freeze. We're a lot colder than almost anywhere habitable, so the system is designed to keep us warm down to -50C outside at night and 20C inside. Just for comparison purposes, a 25kg bag of semi-coke briquettes cost us £1 per bag and that's sufficient for a day in the winter. Less is required in the shoulder seasons. We also burn firewood but at about 8x the cost by weight and thermal output, coke is our cheapest and best choice.

I’ve just had a multi fuel stove fitted in my home and yours is the perfect video to show me how to use coal thank you. Look forward to trying it out.

i always start with a bed of coal on the bottom then kindling stacked on top then a log on top of the kindling and it never fails to light first time , i also use eco wood firelighters i never use parrifin lighters but i suppose theirs lots of different ways to light a stove

Brilliant. Took me two hours to try to get my stove going yesterday and went through way too much kindling. Found your video and got it going in minutes. I feel like a bit of an idiot 😂.

Good video. Very helpful, thank you.

The fastest and reliable form is just to put kindling on the bottom of furnace (try criss cross some wood peaces) when you do that so that is airy structure and put about 800g of quality black coal on it. Ignite 2-3 peaces of fire igniter and put it somewhere in the middle of kindling. You are now warm and free for at least an hour :)

Cheers!..👍🏾

What are those blocks made from? Are they really anthracite coal?

Wood burns at around 4kw per kilo and coal around 8kw per kilo [info from stove sellers on Y/T showing how to light a stove]

Nice video, I have solid fuel central heating, we have always burned anthracite, sadly now getting very hard to buy, may have to start burning ovals now. Once again great video, also that’s how I start my stove. Kind regards, Johnny

I will make a tutorial on how to coal that is mined from the ground and it will be for a coal furnace that can heat a 2 story house

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I some times start with a couple of logs to get the heat up faster and then when they burn down add the coal

There is a problem with using man made ovals, large or small. Incomplete burning of the ovals produces carbon monoxide. If you riddle the ash into the ash tray it could give of c.mon - your c monoxide detector will tell you - so all ash needs to be tipped into a lidded ash carrier box and placed outside the home. You will also find that the ovals burn through more quickly than anthracite, and the inside of the glass will quickly be covered in a sticky "sooty" film. Anthracite is very hard to light. I use a half dozen small ovals with the firelighters and kindling, with some small anthracite pieces in between. When all are alight I carefully add more anthracite a few pieces at a time. I never thrown coal on the fire, I always carefully place it. Too much anthracite in one go can deaden the fire. And then it's s fight to resurrect it.

anthracite coal is able to burn but it takes a lot of work to keep it going and it burns extremely hot so it will heat up your house very quickly even if its a 2 story house

Looks great. What is the make and model of your stove ?

A grenadier electric fire lighter is the answer if, like myself, your coal fires are your main source of heat.

Use a gas poker like my mum😂

4 fire lighters lol, how many fire lighters do you get in a box and what is the cost?

compressed coal dust lumps. ive seen these. but no supplier sells them near me in usa. just lump coal

What flue have you got, there seems to be some talk online that anything other than 904 stainless will be ruined by smokeless coal and "The Tortoise" channel on YT calls it highly corrosive, we've got a 316L and the manufacturer claims it's suitable for solid fuel just not ordinary house coal.

Is that coal or charcoal

Hi I have never started a fire with Firelighters, 3 Sheets of The Daily Telegraph is what I use and CHEAPER, This I have done for 50 years . Cheers

Those things are called tongs.

Fire tongs

Buy a coal cage ! :))

Is that coal? What kind? Looks like CHAR-coal. Also known as compressed wood dust. Maybe some countries consider that coal? I don't know. In the states we have coal. Actual coal. Black rock

Please realise that lighting a wood fire from underneath creates considerably more smoke/pollution than the 'top down' method.

That looks like charcoal briquettes. That is not coal?

Why are you burning charcoal briquettes? That's not real coal.

Tongs

That's charcoal.

"Coal Fires"? That Black Fuel is in Overabundance.. Just need all the Tools of the Trade, a Good Fire, some Tools of Practice and then Burn it from the Bottom Up... Then keep Adding Coal, as Needed... Everyone Burns Coal these Days.. I think is the Message that my KZfaq Channel Feed is telling me?

i can make a better tutorial using only wood and old newspaper and one lighter/match and using actual coal and not charcoal

Coal is bad for the avarment

This is as bad as Bushcraft people 😂 wayy over analyzed

Ummmm Coal Burns Way Hotter Than Wood Matey