I Got a Great Deal on Coal

RLB112 · Post by **RLB112** » Thu. Sep. 20, 2012 11:29 am

i scored about 3 ton of coal for 135.00 bucks. its about the size of a golf ball or so. what back breaking work to shovel it out of the basement though. I just wanted to share the news.

Post by **ONEDOLLAR** » Thu. Sep. 20, 2012 11:37 am

CONGRATS!!!!

Few things make one feel better than FREE or CHEAP coal. Scored some free coal myself last week. Still feeling chipper about it too!

Vinmaker · Post by **Vinmaker** » Thu. Sep. 20, 2012 12:14 pm

nice! Cellar mining is the best. lol

samhill · Post by **samhill** » Thu. Sep. 20, 2012 12:15 pm

Great for both of you, just think of it as exercise & your backs will feel real good in the radiant heat coming off the stove.

RLB112 · Post by **RLB112** » Thu. Sep. 20, 2012 12:19 pm

thanks and I agree on the excersize part. I skipped going to the gym this morning cuz I knew what I was instore for and I only did a half truck load today. my son will get his share of the fun on saturday when I get the rest of it.lol..

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Thu. Sep. 20, 2012 1:14 pm

SCORE! Congrats! Super find!

It's real hard to finish the sentence: "The only thing better than free coal is..."

Post by **ONEDOLLAR** » Thu. Sep. 20, 2012 1:19 pm

Freddy wrote:SCORE! Congrats! Super find!

It's real hard to finish the sentence: "The only thing better than free coal is..."

Freddy....Perhaps you should start a thread in "FLAME SUIT CENTRAL" for the above sentence?

Dann757 · Post by **Dann757** » Thu. Sep. 20, 2012 2:18 pm

Good for you RLB. I never miss a chance to brag about my score a few years ago now! All credit due to the enthusiasm I got from this forum.

Still not worried about my supply. when I first found Nepacrossroads, the same great advice came to me as anybody gets now. I put an ad in Craigs for 'coal wanted'. The next day a maintenance guy from an exclusive all girl's school contacted me. They wanted to clear out a basement that had coal in it. It was one of the original schoolhouses on the big campus that had a lot of modern buildings on it too. The guy provided me with four other grunts and we hauled it all out two spackle buckets at a time! I think that was about 9 truckloads and a half-hour one way trip. It was bizarre seeing all the highschool girls walk by in between classes as us grubby guys loaded my truck, but not at all unpleasant

I knew almost nothing about anthracite at the time, but learned fast here.
Then I bragged about my score to an electrician friend on a job. He told me he had a customer that "had a little coal" in his basement. I got the guy's # and went over to look. The guy was an older attorney, in a magnificent 1800's country house. He took me in the basement and there was at least nine tons sitting in the coal bin! I had to bite my knuckles! He wanted it cleared out. They were extremely congenial and told me to show up whenever I wanted. I had to get my nephew, his buddy; and ended up making a lot of trips and it extended into the winter. I could load my pickup in one hour, two spackle buckets at a time. I had to make some fast coal bins to take it all, still have to consolidate the horde into the one shed. I should be doing that now!