Kimmels at Tractor Supply

coaledsweat wrote:They want to disguise where the product is coming from. They have one skew number no matter where the coal comes from. They don't want to deal with requests for Kimmels or Lehigh when they stick the Miners Choice out there and no one wants it.

well, so far we know if it's not in a woven bag it's not Lehigh.

maybe we can find out how Kimmels is shipping too ?

I don't know what the fuss is.... it's coal... and I've had bad batches from all of them.... I wanted the cheaper price and got it...TSC.. it's burning just fine after a month 24/7.... I don't care what color the ash is or whatever.... I do care about those woven bags... leak water and rott. So TSC has taken a great step in that regard...

Cap, you gotta realize that yer dealing with addicts here. We want, um or should I say, we NEED the good stuff man.....

Good point Cap. If it burns good it doesnt matter and Im glad your happy with it. Its a good price for where Im at too. Mine seems to burn fine too. I want to try it in my larger stove before I buy more. The bags are a personal choice.

Expect discussion of about anything coal related on a coal board. There are many here who weigh the coal and weigh the ash, measure everything by volume and weight, try different air configurations, probably even lick a finger and taste it Its a strange bunch of eclectic people who burn black rocks and like to discuss it. I plead guilty!

Yes, Lightning, I NEED mine too!

coaledsweat wrote:They want to disguise where the product is coming from. They have one skew number no matter where the coal comes from. They don't want to deal with requests for Kimmels or Lehigh when they stick the Miners Choice out there and no one wants it.

Our Woven bags say Lehigh Anthracite on them, no disguising that...

Don't know if you saw my earlier post about the woven bags..they rotted bad over the summer.. the ones I had left over from last season..
You need the "addicts" in life.. they figure out and set the standards in life... but like in food I'm not fussy at all...like some of my family...I'll eat everything or where it is cheap and does the job...

captcaper wrote:Don't know if you saw my earlier post about the woven bags..they rotted bad over the summer.. the ones I had left over from last season..
You need the "addicts" in life.. they figure out and set the standards in life... but like in food I'm not fussy at all...like some of my family...I'll eat everything or where it is cheap and does the job...

We know of this problem, we bag all of our product in polybags except for tractor supply because that's what they wanted...

FWIW I have all my bagged kimmels under black silage tarps with no
signs of deterioration of the poly strands that are woven together to
make the tube that is eventually cut to the length size to sew the base of
the bag prior to them palletizing the printed bags for shipment to the coal packer.

lzaharis wrote:FWIW I have all my bagged kimmels under black silage tarps with no
signs of deterioration of the poly strands that are woven together to
make the tube that is eventually cut to the length size to sew the base of
the bag prior to them palletizing the printed bags for shipment to the coal packer.

Yes UV is what kills them, if you tarp them they will last a long time, we put UV protecting stretch wrap and toppers on our coal for this reason

You could ask 10 different people what bags they want and get 10 different answers. Myself, I like the ones that allow the coal to dry, completely dry. Ive had Blaschak bags dripping water down my legs in June and they are bone dry in the fall because they are not sealed tight. the TSC bags do not dry so I poked holes in them. No biggy.

We have found that most prefer their coal to be somewhat dry, so even our poly bags we have weep holes in to allow for drainage...

Don't know what coal I got this time in the new TSC plastic bags but it's awesome.. love the handles on the bags and they do have weep holes....no water .. glad I got my 6 ton for the winter..

warminmn wrote:You could ask 10 different people what bags they want and get 10 different answers. Myself, I like the ones that allow the coal to dry, completely dry. Ive had Blaschak bags dripping water down my legs in June and they are bone dry in the fall because they are not sealed tight. the TSC bags do not dry so I poked holes in them. No biggy.

Yeah, had a few Blaschak bags that water and coal dust slurry pored out of and made quite a mess. Others were bone dry and dusty. And I took them straight off the pallet in the dealer's storage building.

But, all the Kimmels bags I've bought last winter leaked. Many of the bags were wet with that oily water mix in between bags of the pallet I took them off in the store. And I still have oil stains on a bare wood floor from that oily water that leaked out through the thread holes in Kimmels bags I had standing up against a wall last winter.

Paul

Sunny Boy wrote: But, all the Kimmels bags I've bought last winter leaked. Many of the bags were wet with that oily water mix in between bags of the pallet I took them off in the store. And I still have oil stains on a bare wood floor from that oily water that leaked out through the thread holes in Kimmels bags I had standing up against a wall last winter.

Paul

I can feel for ya Paul. In my (3 season) sun-room, which is white vinyl sided, there's a corner I store a weeks worth of bagged coal. Keeps me from having to go out in the cold and snow. I learned the hard way. This is what has happened to the siding. This is the same corner I someday hope to put the "pencil" stove in. (I call the stove that, cause that's how skinny it is)

I just started using the new TSC plastic bag coal... seems real nice... it was damp but not dripping at all. I was using the old woven bagged Leihigh coal from last season. Bags were rotted bad and would break when picking up and have made a mess. The coal was dry and dusty when loading into the hopper being over a year old. Didn't like that... so this new TSC coal is going to be the cat's meow.