Like what pollutants that you don’t have with wood?
I’ve seen plenty of both sources of heat, and coal is certainly visually cleaner by far. When one considers the fact that few people know how to operate a wood-fueled, airtight stove properly, the pollution opportunity from wood easily exceeds coal.
I used to live in an 1830 farm house. Had a wood and coal burning furnace. Almost every weekend was spent in the 110 acre woodlot cutting down standing deadwood, then splitting it for the furnace. House, of course, had no insulation. The furnace was very old, so I had to stoke it every 3 or 4 hours. To avoid getting up at night, or waking to a stone cold house, I’d throw in the coal at night. Sagamore Hills, Summit County, Ohio. It gets cold. Miss the house. Miss the great hunting. But,,, I don’t miss the labor involved! Besides, the Cuyahoga Valley National Park forced the sale of 100 of the acres, so,,,,,,,,,,
OTOH, some people just can't get along without their daily creosote fix. Why, it's downright FUN sweeping chimneys and cleaning out wood-ranges...NOT!
The kitchen stove both wood & coal grates, and I have finally talked the wife into letting me buy coal.
Feed store/elevator in the next town sells it, and a couple of tons would go a long way in helping out night burn times, as well as providing considerably more heat than the mainly pine we have available on the ranch.
Reason they have coal there, but here, is the coal trains run through them, and BNSF has a small yard there.
Any tips about coal for a life long wood burner?
BTW, I also have a firebrick lined airtight, but no grates for it...any hope?
It sure is, you can see all the way to the bottom of a deep lake.