How Many Barrels for 2 Tons of Nut Coal?

Berlin · Post by **Berlin** » Wed. Nov. 17, 2010 3:31 pm

Ideally, you would dry lay up some 8" block. @ 1.50 each they are a nice, cheap and most importantly easily movable coal bin.

CrabRide · Post by **CrabRide** » Wed. Nov. 17, 2010 6:14 pm

just put 3,940 lbs of rice in 8 barrels

steamup · Post by **steamup** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 1:00 pm

newbiecoal wrote:Thanks for the replies. My regular coal dealer has agreed to deliver me 1 ton of coal for an extra 5 dollars (215 total) for gas money. Much better than paying 288 a ton for bagged. I'm buying 6 barrels, which should be more than enough. I brought some bagged coal to start out but with temps being near 60, I haven't turned my stove on yet because it will get the house too hot. I have a heavy duty hand truck and some straps and I shouldn't have any problems moving each barrel 10 ft to where I will be storing them.

I hope the barrells have locking band tops. Otherwise you can only fill them 2/3 full or you will spill the coal when you move them.

dh4coal · Post by **dh4coal** » Wed. Nov. 24, 2010 9:23 pm

In the Scranton area, you can get used barrels of all sorts from Scranton Cooperage in Jessup. http://www.scrantoncooperage.com