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Post by Hambden Bob » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 7:13 pm

Yep.........I do believe wlape3's got a point. What kind of stove do you have,and do you have any greenbacks for 'da coal or are you like most of us who dream of hitting the big lotto and buying the UAE Harmony Operation?

 
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Post by grumpy » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 7:13 pm

wlape3 wrote:If it is bit there is a possibility it won't burn very if it has been in that coal bin a long time. Anthracite doesn't change much or at all with age but bit can.
Good point....

 
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Post by whistlenut » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 7:27 pm

Sometimes it is easier to just say no thanks. It looks like a couple of tons, but is it worth the aggravation if you don't 'test-burn' it first? You will sure be 'grumpy' if this deal turns out badly, so use caution......after all you can get the 'good stuff' locally.
I went to VT in November to pick up what turned out to be 6 tons and it was all from the Woodstock area; all nut, stove and pea mixed. I am still burning it in a Warm Morning 460, A Glenwood #16, a Harman Mark 1 and in a Chubby. There are many colors in this mix, even the blue coal, and it burns with a clean signature. Sometimes it works out, but you could just as easily not be happy. Test it first! :idea:

 
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Post by grumpy » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 8:10 pm

whistlenut wrote:Sometimes it is easier to just say no thanks. It looks like a couple of tons, but is it worth the aggravation if you don't 'test-burn' it first? You will sure be 'grumpy' if this deal turns out badly, so use caution......after all you can get the 'good stuff' locally.
I went to VT in November to pick up what turned out to be 6 tons and it was all from the Woodstock area; all nut, stove and pea mixed. I am still burning it in a Warm Morning 460, A Glenwood #16, a Harman Mark 1 and in a Chubby. There are many colors in this mix, even the blue coal, and it burns with a clean signature. Sometimes it works out, but you could just as easily not be happy. Test it first! :idea:
I told him I could offer nothing, it was a craigs ad looking for free coal after all. He seem to be in a hurry and wants to move it tomorrow. Thats a lot of work to move that out of a basement. If it were hard coal then maybe I would persue it.. However if he wants to dump it here I just might let him...
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Post by oliver power » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 8:57 pm

coaledsweat wrote:Hard to tell in that pic, a nice close up of some individual pieces and measurements of the pile would help. My guess is bituminous and around 2 tons.
My guess would be the same as yours. Still, I'm only guessing.


 
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Post by grumpy » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 9:11 pm

Oh well, I don't think I'll be hearing from him.. was a nice idea for a few...

 
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Post by rockwood » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 9:49 pm

Hambden Bob wrote:Ever see spontaneous combustion?,I did on an ungroomed large pile of Bit. The Titanic had a fire going in her hold when she got underway
I've never heard of spontaneous combustion with small amounts of soft coal but, stock piles of coal consisting of many thousands of tons of coal is a SC risk. Titanic had something like 5-6 thousand tons of coal just to give you an idea.
Don't think anyone on this forum has anywhere close to that much of any type of coal....maybe whistlenut does :shock: :)

 
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Post by coaledsweat » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 9:53 pm

rockwood wrote:Titanic had something like 5-6 thousand tons of coal just to give you an idea.
And left port on her maiden voyage with a fire in her coal bunker IIRC.

 
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Post by rockwood » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 9:56 pm

Yeah, and as I remember reading they got it under control just before the tragedy.

 
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Post by brckwlt » Mon. Feb. 08, 2010 11:14 pm

did leonardo dicaprio help to get it under control? I must of missed that part of the movie :?


 
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Post by cabinover » Tue. Feb. 09, 2010 5:53 am

:lol:

 
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Post by coaledsweat » Tue. Feb. 09, 2010 9:37 am

rockwood wrote:Yeah, and as I remember reading they got it under control just before the tragedy.
Well even if they didn't, it would have been by the time it reached where it is now.

 
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Post by gitrdonecoal » Wed. Feb. 10, 2010 9:15 am

i get free coal out of basements every chance I get. done this twice now. last one was 3 and a half tons in a basement in buffalo. took me and my brother in law just 2 hours by buckets. not to shabby. looking at it yeah, it may be bitty coal. but the two times I got my free anthracite the coal was really dull. a lot like that picture. hell, if you don't want it I wouldnt mind getting it. as it looks now halfway through the heating season next year I might actually have to pay for coal. first time in two and a half years. oh darn

 
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Post by coalrunner » Wed. Feb. 10, 2010 10:40 am

just to add my two cents, im bettig on it being bit coal. looks exactly like what I dug up and loaded yesterday.maybe im just seeing things but I see some whitish spots on that coal and in my experience if you get bit coal wet then let it lay you get a white crust coating. I believe its caused by the sulphur leaching out. could be wrong though so don't jump on me!!! :D oh, trust me, it doesn't take thousands of tons to get spontaneous combustion. we get a fire a couple times a month inn our piles that are usually only 50 or so tons. always happens after it gets wet then the wind picks up

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