Using coal in a woodstove

Pretty sure it was this place

Lannin Home Building Centre

2682 Highway 31 South, Winchester, ON K0C 2K0

+16137742830

I remember as a kid when they used to deliver coal to our house, poured it down a shout into a bin beside my bedroom in the basement. I use to have to start the fire every morning in the 'Octopus' ....aaah great memories.

Thanks for reminding me HaHa..

My Old man remembers doing that as well

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Originally Posted by MikePal

I remember as a kid when they used to deliver coal to our house, poured it down a shout into a bin beside my bedroom in the basement. I use to have to start the fire every morning in the 'Octopus' ....aaah great memories.

Thanks for reminding me HaHa..

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We’re you in that movie with Shirley Temple

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Originally Posted by MikePal

I remember as a kid when they used to deliver coal to our house, poured it down a shout into a bin beside my bedroom in the basement. I use to have to start the fire every morning in the 'Octopus' ....aaah great memories.

Thanks for reminding me HaHa..

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X2 remember shoveling the coal.

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Originally Posted by js4fn

We’re you in that movie with Shirley Temple

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This was in the early 70's on Franklin Dr, in Kitchener..fairly common in the neighbourhood back then. :)

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Originally Posted by MikePal

I remember as a kid when they used to deliver coal to our house, poured it down a shout into a bin beside my bedroom in the basement. I use to have to start the fire every morning in the 'Octopus' ....aaah great memories.

Thanks for reminding me HaHa..

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At one time,I owned a large,older 1 1/2 story home with an "Octopus" convectional heating system that had been converted from coal to a single thermostat-controlled oil burner. It was absolutely silent operating without a blower,but,the house was toasty warm all winter and used very little oil. Too bad they were phased out in the late 70's.

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Originally Posted by greatwhite

Nope no deer tonight. I could hear them walking but they did not want to show themselves and I knew exactly where they stopped.

This is the Coal I bought.

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That's the stuff I am looking for. I called the HH in Almonte (which is on the way to where I would be using it) and they don't carry it. I will try the one in Winchester.

I grew up in the coal mining region of northeast pa. - in those days coal was king - everybody burned it and more than half the people made a living by mining it - I remember it costing $4 dollars a ton delivered - at the end of winter we had a ash pile in the yard that we got rid of by paying a guy to haul it away - cost 10 cents a bushel - a lot of guys got killed mining it - two of my uncles died in mine cave-ins - and many ended up with black lung from breathing in the dust while mining it - as far as it being cleaner than wood I don't know if that is true - our chimney really got blocked up from burning the coal and it you were near a railroad where a steam engine was passing you could feel the stuff falling on your head - you can still buy anthracite coal by the pickup truck full from small mines still being worked by a few people - those were the days - coal furnaces, ice boxes and horse drawn milk wagons have gone their way - their use are only memories now

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

At one time,I owned a large,older 1 1/2 story home with an "Octopus" convectional heating system that had been converted from coal to a single thermostat-controlled oil burner. It was absolutely silent operating without a blower,but,the house was toasty warm all winter and used very little oil. Too bad they were phased out in the late 70's.

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I was curious about the “OCTOPUS” furnace and found this article interesting, sometimes I wonder if we might rely on simpler stuff in the future.

https://www.oldhouseguy.com/heating-old-octopus-furnace/

Apologies for taking the thread in a different direction - hope I am not reprimanded, link above doesn’t seem to work try this one

https://www.oldhouseguy.com/heating-...topus-furnace/