wnycoalier wrote:I'm sending a truck after may 1st to lehigh for 22 tons of Pea coal back to Western NY. Any suggestions for making my first bulk buy an easy one? Ive talked to Lehigh and they will take a credit card and gave me the hours. Any inside knowledge or horror stories to plan for to keep the driver from dumping it on my garden when he gets it here out of frustration?
I would be interested in a video (utube or otherwise) being posted of the process when they get to your site.
And the total cost to your door for that 22 tons....I wish I had the room. I'm jealous.
Send us photos of your delivery site and how you are preparing. If you are sending the truck then it's quite simple but it sounds like you have not done this before.
Chatting with reading coal they made the point that kimmels was softer and blaschak was reclaiming coal and that there was a 1-3000 BTU swing in their BTU per pound. Sales talk or reality?
wnycoalier wrote:Chatting with reading coal they made the point that kimmels was softer and blaschak was reclaiming coal and that there was a 1-3000 BTU swing in their BTU per pound. Sales talk or reality?
Reading bulk is a Superior product. Most everyone using it has great reports. Seems like Lehigh and Reading bulk were the best buys this year.
http://www.Pelletsdirect.com has started carrying Reading coal along with the Blaschak. $279 a ton when you buy 3 tons or more or $269 a ton on a 12 ton direct buy deal. 40lb bags on a 1 ton pallet. Seems to be a lot of mixed reviews on the bagged Reading. Has anyone picked some up recently?
Pea is great. Nut sucked. Lots of fines and size variances. Picked up 3 Reading nut at end of season as dealer was out of pea. Seemed much better. Few fines and uniform size. Still prefer pea but the nut seemed much better. May have been a fluke, who knows...
Just got 23 ton of rice coal delivered from lehigh for 150 a ton and delivery was 23 dollars a ton from leiby trucking . Delivery was on Nov 6, 2015 . Leiby trucking said the delivery would be at 6:30 am and the truck got here at 6:15 am . I give a 5 star rating to both Lehigh and leiby . Its nice to know this day and age that companies are on the money . Terry from Lehigh treated me like a first class customer when in fact I never ordered coal from them before . WOW Paul Heider
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I bought 2 tons of Reading back in February 2016. The water drizzled all over the place when carrying the bags in from the garage. Made a real mess of the garage floor, door, and carpet in the house. Kept drizzling out of the bags even though I left then standing up for several hours. Will never buy Reading Coal in 40lb. bags again. They got my last business. I used Blaschek Coal in the 40lb. bags that cost the same of $299 per ton plus a $50 delivery charge. The coal is damp, but never had any water drizzling out of the bags. I like Blaschek Coal. I just wished I knew of a place where I could buy Blaschek Coal in the 40lb. bags far cheaper per ton. I go through 8 tons a year to heat this old house.
