Light it and keep adding. Don't mess with it once lit, it doesn't need stirring like wood.
buy coke
Anthracite is notoriously hard to get lit unless you shovel it into an already stoked furnace.
My laptop works well on bitumen coke.
The GPU is a bit smoky though.
You got anthracite for Christmas?
You must’ve been better than me. I got lignite.
Put it into a cast iron stove first.
Don't put a lot in the stove or it'll get so hot it'll melt through.
Coal can be a real pain, you need to get a hot fire before it burns properly.
Get some kiln dried wood, those $6 packs in the grocery store work, and when it’s real hot toss in the coal a little at a time and maintain it.
Have you no regard for the environment? (sarc)
Not much info here. Do you even have a coal stove or just a wood stove? Does it have a shaker grate? Is it air tight?
Hard coal needs the right stove.
What size coal are you using? What are you using it in?
Light it and keep adding. Don't mess with it once lit, it doesn't need stirring like wood.
Isn’t anthracite (coking coal) for making steel? Wouldn’t you get lignite (thermal coal)?
Sounds hard.
What is the chemical analysis and the BTU value of the coal? We tried sub-bituminous and it did not work too well.(8200 BTU)
Anything with a BTU analysis such as Bituminus (12000 btu) is better, Anthracite is hard and lignite is, as was said, dirt that burns.
In my big stove I start with a Duraflame log, some newspaper, and a bit of wood scraps.
Light it of and let it burn until you get a good simmer and then start adding coal. A couple of shovel fulls at a time until you’ve got a good coal fire.
Once it’s going don’t mess with it too much. I add three shovel full in the morning and shake it down at night and add three more shovel full.
It burns from early December through mid April.
Coal, especially hard coal, needs air from the bottom. Stoves that are designed to burn coal will have that kind of setup.
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Charcoal might be the best answer...
Built a coal bin next to the house since they delivered with the old-style high lift coal dumper (that I remembered seeing in Philly as a kid in the late 50's.)
The process is simple as you build a wood fire and once it is hot enough you GRADUALLY start to add the coal. Once the fire is built, you adjust the draft and flue damper...it warms for hours without touching. Banked down for the night, it is easily brought back up in the morning and then set for the rest of the day.
Once the fire is built, it will last as long as you want it. It took some planning since you had to figure if you were going to be travelling for a few days, when you wanted the fire to go out. Upon return you start the rebuild process, which was very simple once you understood how your stove best worked in your environment with draft and damper settings.
It was nice to be that easily warm on sub-zero days...!
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“Basics of a Hand Fired Coal Stove”