i got a great deal on coal

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.

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!

nice! Cellar mining is the best. lol

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.

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 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?

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!

Way to go Danny! What a score but those are (unfortunately) getting harder to come by.

Nice story on free coal. Keep up the good hunt.

I would borrow or rent a auger. If I couldn't It would be better for me to work Ot and buy it.

Op4_camper wrote:I would borrow or rent a auger. If I couldn't It would be better for me to work Ot and buy it.

It gets really hard when you need to 5-gallon bucket it out.

I had a lady who had 2.5 tonnes and just wanted it out ... but wifey dont wanty loose coal...bummer