Blaschak Bagged Coal is Very Wet and Freezing
- Sunny Boy
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Yes. I've been using both this winter.
Kimmels bagged nut.
The Kimmels lights more easily and more quickly, with more yellow flame. It has more volatiles in it. After reloading the firebox it's ready to reset the dampers sooner than Blaschak. I find it doesn't last as long as Blaschak between loadings, needs tighter damper settings in very cold weather to keep the draft from getting too strong. It has a bit more ash, which is reddish with a lot of tougher clinkers that have quite a bit of iron in it. Great for relighting the stove as quickly as possible, almost as good as wood at bringing back near dead fires. I save what I have to mix in with my Blaschak in moderately cold weather and only use straight Kimmel's on really warm days to keep the draft up.
Blaschak bulk nut
For very cold weather, and for when I need longer burn times I use straight Blaschak. Burns just as hot as Kimmels, but lasts longer between loadings and burns at a more steady, easily controlled pace than the Kimmels. Ash is white and more powdery with fewer chunks than Kimmels. The clinkers are weak, crumbly, and more easily broken up by grate shaking.
Paul
Kimmels bagged nut.
The Kimmels lights more easily and more quickly, with more yellow flame. It has more volatiles in it. After reloading the firebox it's ready to reset the dampers sooner than Blaschak. I find it doesn't last as long as Blaschak between loadings, needs tighter damper settings in very cold weather to keep the draft from getting too strong. It has a bit more ash, which is reddish with a lot of tougher clinkers that have quite a bit of iron in it. Great for relighting the stove as quickly as possible, almost as good as wood at bringing back near dead fires. I save what I have to mix in with my Blaschak in moderately cold weather and only use straight Kimmel's on really warm days to keep the draft up.
Blaschak bulk nut
For very cold weather, and for when I need longer burn times I use straight Blaschak. Burns just as hot as Kimmels, but lasts longer between loadings and burns at a more steady, easily controlled pace than the Kimmels. Ash is white and more powdery with fewer chunks than Kimmels. The clinkers are weak, crumbly, and more easily broken up by grate shaking.
Paul
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thanks paul I used kimmels all winter then switched to blackshack I use rice I had to turn down feed rate quite a bit in my leisure line I was dumping a lot of coal off grate almost by half its a little wet that make a difference trying to dry it best I can
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[quote="Rob R."]Coal characteristics can vary from load to load, and season to season. The guys at Blaschak do their best to blend from their different sources and put out a consistent product. I always found their nut coal to be excellent.
I had bad luck with BLaschak the last 2 years - coal just won't burn hot and i'm struggling with it - I did discover that wood pellets are awesome for restarting a coal fire - dump a couple cups sprinkled all around and the bottom pellets get hot, start a fire and the top pellets get hot enough to get the coals going.
Still, seemed like it was so dang coal in York PA that even the wood would not burn hot!! Now I have a pellet stove and a coal/wood stove - I will get by haha
I had bad luck with BLaschak the last 2 years - coal just won't burn hot and i'm struggling with it - I did discover that wood pellets are awesome for restarting a coal fire - dump a couple cups sprinkled all around and the bottom pellets get hot, start a fire and the top pellets get hot enough to get the coals going.
Still, seemed like it was so dang coal in York PA that even the wood would not burn hot!! Now I have a pellet stove and a coal/wood stove - I will get by haha
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This response is extremely confusing........................shortnsassy64 wrote:Rob R. wrote:Coal characteristics can vary from load to load, and season to season. The guys at Blaschak do their best to blend from their different sources and put out a consistent product. I always found their nut coal to be excellent.
I had bad luck with BLaschak the last 2 years - coal just won't burn hot and i'm struggling with it - I did discover that wood pellets are awesome for restarting a coal fire - dump a couple cups sprinkled all around and the bottom pellets get hot, start a fire and the top pellets get hot enough to get the coals going.
Still, seemed like it was so dang coal in York PA that even the wood would not burn hot!! Now I have a pellet stove and a coal/wood stove - I will get by haha
And I hope that other people on NEPACrossroads are paying attention.....................
I see where Rob R was quoted at the beginning...................but I don't see the end to his response. Or where this poster started his own words.
While you ............as the poster..............may know what you mean..............................
We as a reader, must go back through 15 pages to find Rob's quote , in order to find out where your words started.
And it gets really fun when the thread is over 30 pages long...........................
We ain't mind readers....................Please explain yourself
No offense was meant by this post, just an EYE-OPENER...................as I've been guilty of this also, but I've seen the 'error of my ways'
Thanks for listening (watching) my tirade.
Don
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sorry - newbie and clueless about quotes and stuff - hope someone deletes the post if it's that bad!
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As I said previously, no offense was meant to you personally.shortnsassy64 wrote:sorry - newbie and clueless about quotes and stuff - hope someone deletes the post if it's that bad!
And by the way, welcome to NEPA Crossroads.
We are here to help in any way we can...........The problem is that sometimes it gets so confusing, that we don't know if we are coming or going...........in other words, we can't help if we don't know exactly what's going on.
We try to visualize from the typed words, if the words are typed incorrectly, we see things wrong and come up with wrong answers.............all due to the info we were given. It makes us experienced coal burners look and feel bad. A lot of coal burners have gotten away from coal, because they didn't describe things properly and we couldn't help them with their particular problem.
I'm here to help, but I'm only as good as the information that is given to me as I'm not there to see what's going on.
Take care, and I'll be here to help in any way I can.