Kimmel's Problems

SMITTY · By: **SMITTY** On: Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:33 pm

All my coal came from unopened pallets. It was all still damp or soaking wet.

Then add the occasional flood in the basement ...

Wood'nCoal · By: **Wood'nCoal** On: Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:36 pm

Interesting. I'm going on what I was told about how Blaschak is bagged. We have had this discussion before. How 'bout how it is transported, probably on a flatbed trailer. What happens when it is transported through bad weather? Just wondering how it gets so wet.

SMITTY · By: **SMITTY** On: Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:43 pm

I think it's just the temperature & humidity differentials it goes through from the source to the buyer ... plus however long it sits in the elements. Once you get a little bit of condensation on the 40 lbs of cool coal in there, no amount of sunlight will allow it to escape. I think the plastic actually IS the reason for it. Moisture gets in little by little, but can never get out.

coal berner · By: **coal berner** On: Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:27 am

wlape3 wrote:
crazy4coal wrote:If you have rice coal, last year Kimmel's had a problem with 1.5 & 2" stone getting mixed with the coal. When the bucket loader was reloading from the stock yard he scraped up stone from the yard and put it in the bagging plant. I had about a half a dozen bags that had 1 rock in them. Thankfully my customers caught it before it did any damage to their stokers. Is it possable that what you have was bagged last year and was left over? One of my customers put a piece of 1/2" hardware cloth over the hopper and poured the coal thru it. If you dealer is any good he will replace any bags that you want to send back. That's what I would do. You got to keep the customer happy!

Where can I find hardware cloth? Is it like expanded steel?

Unfortunately, my auger died on the second or third rock this season. The gear box was stripped and I had to buy a new assembly for $130. So far, I've found about ten rocks in 1, 1.25 ton skid. Some were quite large and look like they came from a mine rather than from a parking lot/gravel cover. There were probably a lot more which were small enough to pass through the auger.

Yes, Fred, I'm talking bagged rice coal. Wish I had a barn to put my coal in then I would buy it in bulk. Maybe Santa will leave one under the Christmas tree this year?

Here is a place you can buy all sizes colors and different material
http://www.twpinc.com/twpinc/control/main

coal berner · By: **coal berner** On: Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:34 am

Wood'nCoal wrote:Interesting. I'm going on what I was told about how Blaschak is bagged. We have had this discussion before. How 'bout how it is transported, probably on a flatbed trailer. What happens when it is transported through bad weather? Just wondering how it gets so wet.

Enclosed trailers and open flat trailers The bags have air holes in them so they do not blow apart when the machine loads them with coal The robot picks them up and loads them on pallet then then to the shrink wrap machine

wlape3 · By: **wlape3** On: Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:45 pm

SMITTY wrote:All my coal came from unopened pallets. It was all still damp or soaking wet.

Then add the occasional flood in the basement ...

I had the same experience Smitty. The coal was wet UNDER the shrink wrap. Nothing like a giant coal ice cube.

LsFarm · By: **LsFarm** On: Sat Dec 25, 2010 11:36 pm

I've been through the Blaschak bagging plant. The coal is DRY when it is bagged.. I was in the warehouse next to the bagging machine,, and there wasn't a drop of water on the floor.. bone dry.. so any water in the bags gets there after it is bagged..

Greg L

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