Lots of Pea Coal Available at Little Buck Mine, Lincoln PA

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Post by pine grove coal user » Sun. Jul. 15, 2012 9:17 pm

I am getting my annual need of six tons of pea coal again from the Little Buck Coal Mine in Lincoln (just north of Molleystown, Pa). They are mining in two new holes and have found the coal is excellent. At this time they have a lot of pea coal and a good amount of nut coal. Larry told me that of all his customers, he usually ends up with an excess of pea coal. I told him I would post this to help him get it sold.
I've looked at the coal and it is clean and beautiful.
They do deliver locally. I do not know the delivered price.
The price picked up at the mine it is $150 a ton.

 
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Post by Yanche » Sun. Jul. 15, 2012 9:41 pm

I'm not familiar with this supplier. Could you post a more precise location. Do they have scales to weigh your truck or are they selling by bulk volume equivalent weight?

 
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Post by pine grove coal user » Sun. Jul. 15, 2012 10:02 pm

It is a very small operation. For my pickup truck they load by volume. One scoop = 1000 lbs. They are pretty accurate but I have never been short-changed. If someone was buying a tri-axle load I'm going to guess that they would sell it by weight.
I purposely didn't post their phone number because I didn't want them to get a bunch of nuisance phone calls. If you are serious about buying from them send me a private message and I'll help you make contact with the owner.

 
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Post by Richard S. » Mon. Jul. 16, 2012 4:13 am

Pea is not popular at all, I had about 45% rice customers, 45% nut. The other ten percent was pea and buck, the pea was probably 6 or 7%. Over at Hudson they had a crusher right on the conveyor belt that went into the sizing plant. If it came down to it they would start crushing the pea and buck but they didn't do that often because they would lose a lot of money. In addition to the added expense of crushing and sizing it again you're making a lot of barley and dust.


 
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Post by mozz » Tue. Jul. 17, 2012 7:12 pm

I gave him a call and left a message. Shortest route to here is 88 miles and easiest is 99 miles. I wish I knew somebody with at least a dump truck who would drive that for gas and some money. You can get very close to my bin but I would take it dumped in the yard if the price was right.

 
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Coal Size/Type: Pea, from Little Buck mine
Other Heating: New Yorker oil burner which almost never runs, thanks to the Tarm!

Post by pine grove coal user » Fri. Jul. 27, 2012 7:23 pm

I picked up the last of my coal today. The bin is full at 8.5 tons. (I usually burn 6.5 tons.) I AM READY FOR SNOW! Just three more months until heating season! Wooooo Hooooo! :)

 
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Post by oros35 » Tue. Jul. 31, 2012 1:26 pm

Could you PM me their #

need to make a trip out sometime soon. I go to Raush Creek with my Jeep alot, right down the road from there. I knew there was a mine somewhere close, but never knew the name of it.

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