Coal for Sale

No mensies cone nor heavy media separator was shone to me yet the new green McCloskey crushers were. Paul indeed stated that this years extraction was experimental and if there was enough interest they would install a full scale breaker next year.
I would be conifident that would include a cone and separator as well as any modern toy that would aid the process and profit.

I understood that blashack's hazelton operation was buying thier product but when they tried lowballing the price NA said no deal. Early this morn while it was 37* i decided today would be a good day to burn the 2 buckets they gave me to sample.

1/4 hod of cowboy charcoal dumped on 2 sheets of crumpled pocono record,came right to life with the match and within 10 minutes i had .03 draft and shovled 2 scoops of a standard fireplace ash shovel's worth of the new coal. It steamed for a few minutes and low and behold it lit off causing draft to head to .05 and bring out a few blue ladies.
Well by now the steel box isnt cold anymore and i pour on a 1/4 hod of the NA coal. in a few more minutes it too is blue flamin
I was being careful not to put too much on right now as i wanted the cowboy charcoal to burn off and allow me to better analyze the new coals ability and qualities.
In 45minutes time i gave the bed the rest of the 5gal bucket and tried to drown it out but as we all know and love, there from below came a dim and faint orange glow and before long it spread and then a blue one danced up. in short order the whole thing was blue flaming and the dwyer was bouncing at .10....

Saturday they are there till noon. I think they open at 7a.

So just as the chill is leaving the house at a good pace now, I get called into work and so i close the draft down low and leave for 3+ hours..... The test duties were turned over to the coal fire lady tender and naturally upon......

Returning back the living room is a nice 73* and that ole familiar coal warmth greets me. I figure now is a good time to give the grates a shake and open the air all the way. in no time there was good full glow and flames and the grate shook normal although it sounded crunchier than im used to. I was looking for and half expecting some grate stoppage but had none as of yet. This coal does indeed burn hot and well in my opinion. I have only one potential drawback with it in reguards to my set up and that is that it is more on the pea side of nut then the egg side of nut and I fear in the deep cold sub-zero, might not let enough air thru for my need. This open stud 102yr old cottage with absolutly no insulation and single pane drafty windows,will need larger sized nut to crank out the needed btu's.
The limitations of our storage bin might force me to wait till next year to buy this afordable heat rock for use in the alaska kodiak and the jotul507.

So 12 hours after i started this test i decided to take the other full 5gal worth (actually a tall one like 7 gal) and dump it all ontop of the existing bed. The kodiak when empty is capable of taking 120#... Again the orange went away and a short while later the bluest big ladies came out to dance. I just opened the ash pit door and gave a full swing bunch of shakes to the grate,in a attempt to "find" a rock and alas none were found.
As with any new thing, especially one thats over 50% cheaper than familar others, I went into this with a pessimistic approach.
That now has turned to optimisim and I look foward to hear other folks give thier experience with this product. It would be just dandy if this company could take this initial run of product and indeed see fit to step up to the next level required yet provide our family of black rock burners the relief of knowing theres a affordable source of heat . Thanks Paul and John and crew.

steamup wrote:Did another ash weigh on the good coal in the AA last night. Looks like I run about 19-20% ash under light load with the stuff I got from Sherman last year. I will shut down the AA this weekend and fire up the Keystoker on Rice. Results will be posted.

edit - update 9/24/12 7:30 pm. Last 30 hours of cool weather and hot showers burned 81 lbs of coal with 15.6 lbs of ash. About 19%. I am sure I am at the end of the NA coal in the AA130 hopper.

Are both these comparisons with the NA coal?