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Post by ddahlgren » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 3:42 pm

Here is a sample of Blaschack bagged just opened. Some coins for a size reference and my prize clinker LOL. Now tell me this not whatever they can scrap up after loading a bilk truck. The coin on left a dime the rest a quarter.
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Post by freetown fred » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 3:56 pm

All I can say is that the 84 bags of nut & stove BLASCHAK have been real good consistency size wise. I normally buy bulk with satisfactory results. I'm surprised they didn't charge ya extra for that multi-purpose bag. ;)

 
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Post by michaelanthony » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 4:37 pm

freetown fred wrote:All I can say is that the 84 bags of nut & stove BLASCHAK have been real good consistency size wise. I normally buy bulk with satisfactory results. I'm surprised they didn't charge ya extra for that multi-purpose bag. ;)
ha ha ha!...and I thought it was the Pennsylvania food pyramid! :funny: more gravy please :P

 
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Post by ddahlgren » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 5:13 pm

Some run pretty good in size maybe 20% the rest this mess. It is like coal salad fresh from the bucket loader cleaning the piles up.


 
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Post by joeq » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 5:21 pm

So Double D, just what size was that bag suppose to be? Nut? Stove? Looks like a real "smorgasbord".

 
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Post by warminmn » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 5:27 pm

Did it burn good in your stove? Thats whats most important.

 
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Post by michaelanthony » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 5:31 pm

ddahlgren wrote:Some run pretty good in size maybe 20% the rest this mess. It is like coal salad fresh from the bucket loader cleaning the piles up.
I had the same problem with Reading bags last season the pea was slightly better than the 'nut, 3 to 5 lbs of crap-o-la in every bag!

 
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Post by ddahlgren » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 5:56 pm

Supposed to be nut. When it is nut burns great when this stuff it leaves me scratching my head as the fine stuff chokes it down quite a bit.


 
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Post by rberq » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 6:33 pm

ddahlgren wrote:Here is a sample of Blaschack bagged just opened
That one at the top of the plate ... I had the other half of it in one of my bags, stood out like a sea gull in a flock of crows. However, that was the only non-coal event in any of this year's Blaschak, other than maybe a couple smalll 300-million-year-old sticks which burned just fine. I have burned Reading, Kimmel, and Blaschak, often some of all three in the same winter, and I always end up being just a little happier with the Blaschak.

 
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Post by rberq » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 6:44 pm

ddahlgren wrote: the fine stuff chokes it down quite a bit.
I can sympathize with that. Too many fines badly choked my Harman Mark I. I even had to send back most of a pallet of Kimmel one year because of excessive really-small fines. My DS Machine stove doesn't seem bothered by any mix -- don't know why, maybe because the firebox is bigger, maybe because the hopper trickles the little stuff down gradually?

 
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Post by davidmcbeth3 » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 9:59 pm

I would call the guy you bought it off and tell him to replace it. You paid for nut, you got something other than PLUS extras that could damage your stove.

 
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Post by ddahlgren » Mon. Mar. 16, 2015 11:12 pm

The top piece is the result I think of the fire getting choked one of the world class clinkers I seem to make when I get into the wildly mixed coal or run straight Kimmels for a few days then the Crane 404 changes to the Clink-o-matic 404.

On a different subject my ash can near the door on a old concrete my grand father made or had made I think the truck that hauled the sand also hauled coal as there are some black rocks the size of nut coal mixed in. It works for me and the walk not like the stuff they pour now it is not that dark grey color but a very light beige color and thinking very different sand mixed in and very boney mix with a lot of nut and pea sized rocks mixed in. I had a friend remove one and quoted me 300 to jack hammer it up and haul away years ago. Turns out it was 8 inches thick with all the rock in it and took him days LOL. I gave him a case of beer and some cash to get dinner every night while working on it.

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