Hauling Bagged Coal

I really don't like my local suppplier. I would like to get 3-5 tons on my own. What is the best was to transport bagged rice coal from PA to Southern NY when you don't own a truck?

Rent a small u-haul. If you have an suv you can rent a trailer.

billw: I thought of that but are they rated to handle 3-5 tons. Have u seen the little tires on the trailers they rent?

I'm not sure what their weight limit is. I was thinking, hell they can carry a car, but that's only around 1 ton. The 17 foot truck should more than handle it. We just moved my daughter with one. It's got dual rear wheels.

I would love to cut my dealer out of the picture. He is gouging us and charging stacking fees, etc. I may do this just not to line his pockets. I'd probably save about 140.00 a ton so even if I got 4 tons it would be worth the trip.

Penske rents heavy duty trucks, 26,900 is what the door says so they can rent to people without a CDL but they have huge axles on them and heavy duty tires that can hold 20,000 pounds easy. Bagged coal costs the same in PA as it does anywhere else though, doesn't it?

Send matthaus a PM. I believe he can hook you up with reasonably priced bagged rice in the Scranton/Carbondale area. I believe I've heard folks here on the forum finding bagged rice for ~$190/ton in Scranton. While at the same time, most dealers I've checked are getting ~$250/ton for bagged Blaschak when buying a 2400 lb pallet. Kinda expensive; because, I can get bagged Blaschak for the same price all the way up here in New Hampshire.

The only way to really save money is to have J.C. take you to a breaker and get some of the good stuff in bulk. I believe deep mined NEPA black gold is going for ~$140 a ton. Send J.C. (coal berner) a PM. He'll hook you up. Go rent yourself a truck and load that puppy up!

Thanks. I will give him a PM.

That would be the way to buy it http://www.uhaul.com 6x12 trailer you need some Plywood for the front/back and sides to hold the coal AsK MT a few weeks ago he came down with a chevy dump truck & u-haul 6x12 trailer you can put 3 tons of rice in the front of the trailer and 1 1/2 tons of nut on the back 3 tons in the truck there was room for more don't forget tarps and straps the price for coal was 120.00 aton the other two breakers are 140.00 a ton all deep mine the 120.00 a ton place as a 2 ton limit right now so we would go to the other two breaker Bag coal here runs anywhere from 5.50 abag to 6.50 a bag all strip coal Blaschak Reading Kimmel You can buy all of them bulk loose there are two Blaschak breaker one is 8 miles the other is 15 miles from me 150.00 to 160.00 a ton Reading breaker is 6 miles away not sure what there price is was 130.00 aton I also have two others right down the road one is Ginther coal breaker 1.5 miles and Tuscarora coal breaker 2.5 miles away South Tamque coal pockets is 10 miles away And there is about 6 more with in 12 miles so there is no Problem Getting coal Plus if you bring a pick and shovel we can dig in my yard or basement my house sits on apart of the mammoth coal vein as far as Matthaus he buy's his coal down here He is 72.6 miles from me I have a group going this thursday morning PM me if you are interested

That is so cool that you have a vein in your backyard. I would definetely be interested in picking coal for some fun. Do u ever find fossils? I'm actually set right now but I'll need a refill this summer. I'll get in touch with you then and I'll bring the pick too. It's a shame the dumbasses in our capital are so political because they could be promoting anthracite and creating a boom for the NE. Instead we gove all our dollars to people who hate us. Go figure. Thanks again.

traderfjp wrote:That is so cool that you have a vein in your backyard. I would definetely be interested in picking coal for some fun. Do u ever find fossils? I'm actually set right now but I'll need a refill this summer. I'll get in touch with you then and I'll bring the pick too. It's a shame the dumbasses in our capital are so political because they could be promoting anthracite and creating a boom for the NE. Instead we gove all our dollars to people who hate us. Go figure. Thanks again.

Whenever you are ready by the way we really would not have to pick in summer when we get heavy rains it pop up
to the surface because when they dug out for the house they broke most of it lose so in the front yard it Just works it way Up now in the back we would have to pick & blast the vein is soild

is this a open invitation to take us to get cheap coal bulk. i live in silver creek ny its about 50 miles south of buffalo. i have a friend that is going to start burning coal and i have a cdl so i could haul 8-9 tons if rented a truck. the rental would be 126$ plus fuel this would be a 5-6 hundred dollar savings thanx