Made the move

Finally moved over to coal this year. I have to say this, where the heck has this stuff been all my life? Talk about easier, this has wood beat any way you go. I am burning in an inside boiler and it works perfectly all the time. Plenty of fire in the morning to reload on, house warm and no fuss. If I added up the cost of chainsaw chains, fuel and oil , the tractor and splitter, all the hauling, splitting and stacking. I spend just as much to burn wood. I do have to drive a ways to get it but no big deal. Got my last load from city coal yard in Brazil Indiana for 70 bucks a ton, really nice people to deal with and they don't care if you have a truck or 5 gal buckets in the trunk of your car. They had no problem with an out of state check either and its hard to find places like that now a days.

That's awesome! You sound like I did a year ago. It's hard to beat coal thats for sure.

Why'd you wait so long???
Just kidding, yeah wood is hard work. I went to help my brother inlaw get a load (truck and trailer) of wood up in the mountains a few months back and HOLY COW...that's hard work...Now that I'm in my 40's I just can't do that hard labor like I used to. By the end of the day we were BEAT.
A little bit of wood is ok but when you're talking 5-10 cords to get through winter ... takes too much work and time to do that.

Best thing about coal is unlike wood you really only have to check on the stove maybe twice a day unlike the feeding of the wood stove every two to four hours....

I burned wood for years. Cutting, splitting, stacking, moving 6 to 8 cord a year. Coal has wood beat in every way except one....coal makes way more ash, but, geepers, that's a small price to pay for nice even heat that you don't have to tend every 5 or 6 hours.

I still put up a couple of cords for the winter, but I can't imagine being without coal! Congratulations!

I would only burn wood again as a backup in a power outage and maybe for ambiance if I get a house with a fireplace. (Not likely)
Welcome to the coal world!!

Kevin

Well I was lucky that my gibraltar can burn both coal and wood. I normally burn wood in the fall and early spring, since it isn't cold enough to get a coal fire going, nice to get a wood fire going and let it die out over night. For the rest of the fall and winter season, it is completely coal.

zipdog wrote:where the heck has this stuff been all my life? Talk about easier, this has wood beat any way you go. If I added up the cost of chainsaw chains, fuel and oil , the tractor and splitter, all the hauling, splitting and stacking. I spend just as much to burn wood.

I said the same thing a couple years ago
Way to go

ZIPDOG;

Welcome to the DARK SIDE, the world of black rock coal burners.



BigBarney

BigBarney wrote:ZIPDOG;

Welcome to the DARK SIDE, the world of black rock coal burners.



BigBarney

Should we teach him the secret handshake yet?

Duengeon master wrote:Should we teach him the secret handshake yet?

NOOOOOOOOO! He needs a minimum of 100 posts, and 6 new threads

DVC500 at last wrote:

Duengeon master wrote:Should we teach him the secret handshake yet?

NOOOOOOOOO! He needs a minimum of 100 posts, and 6 new threads

I'm glad you told me!! I almost let it slip!

Back to the Future, coal is the finest solid fuel. I keep a cord or two of wood around, for memories sake

I am headed back to the coal yard this morning. Not out yet but I would like to keep about a ton stored inside next to the boiler.
Burned wood for about 35 years and keeping enough stored out of the weather in case of a storm was always a problem. I even tried one of those stupid outdoor boilers for a while and let me tell you those things will work you to death and you still have to go out in all kinds of weather to tend them, what a joke.