Summer coal prices???

During the summer months, is it cheaper to buy coal? This was my first winter with coal and I've been paying $6 per 50lb bag of rice coal. If I can get it cheaper during the summer months, I'm going to stock up when it's 90 degrees out!

It stays pretty much the same around here that I know of. Most are going up due to the delivery costs increasing because of fuel.

I try and get it late Aug/Sept. before the rush, otherwise, you may not get it for a few weeks.

There is usually a price increase in the spring around NE. About $10 @ ton on average.

There is usually a small price drop in the spring for bulk loacally, not sure about other areas. It 's not a whole lot.

I guess it would depend on your coal dealer.He may want to sell off the bagged coal to free up space for seasonal items. In which case the sale would be over the next month or so. I had called one dealer about off season discounts. He said that he has a spring discount in April but he only carries rice which doesn't help me at all.

I was talking to a friend of mine in the construction business & he had an architect ask for coal to be used as part of the landscape.

spc wrote:I was talking to a friend of mine in the construction business & he had an architect ask for coal to be used as part of the landscape.

I wonder how long before the landscape disappears.

spc wrote:I was talking to a friend of mine in the construction business & he had an architect ask for coal to be used as part of the landscape.

I actually seen that at one house, trouble there is it gets that film over it after being outside and no longer looks like that great.

Blaschak had a listing for a dealer in SE Michigan,, not too far from me... so I called him, it was a landscape supply company,, carried aggregate, lava-rock, mulch etc... I asked why the anthracite coal?? He said he had quite a few lanscapers that used the 'glittering black' coal as a different accent instead of the black lave-rock.

He wants $280 a ton... and it was nut size only.

Greg l

There is generally a nice drop at the end of the season around here, as they want to clear out their stock. Last spring I got a bunch of Blaschak for 4.95 a bag and stocked up what I could. Hope to do the same again this year. I call every retailer in the area, every monday to check prices.

2008 Published Prices for Sanderson's Coal Service
1235 Mud Run Road
York Springs, PA
717-528-8344

White Ash, all sizes
Apr-Jun $198
July $203
Aug $208
Sep $213
Oct-Mar $218

Red Ash, nut/rice
Apr-Jun $186
July $191
Aug $196
Sep $201
Oct-Mar $206

Red Ash, barley/stove/pea
Apr-Jun $176
July $181
Aug $186
Sep $191
Oct-Mar $196

Hand-Shoveled (bags, buckets,etc.) $13/100 lbs.

Delivery charge $35 through Sept., $40 after Oct. 1.

Yanche's notes ...
It's a small family run part time business, northeast of Gettysburg, PA. Obviously the delivery charges are for local delivery. Be sure to call for open business days and hours. I bought several pickup loads two years ago. Nice people to buy from. They have a truck scale. One of the coals is Reading Brand, don't remember the other.

I just received the 2009 Published Prices for Sanderson's Coal Service
1235 Mud Run Road
York Springs, PA
717-528-8344

White Ash, all sizes
Apr-Jun $197
July $202
Aug $207
Sep $212
Oct-Mar $217

Red Ash, stove/nut/rice
Apr-Jun $211
July $216
Aug $207
Sep $212
Oct-Mar $231

Red Ash, barley
Apr-Jun $191
July $196
Aug $201
Sep $206
Oct-Mar $211

Hand-Shoveled (bags, buckets,etc.) $14/100 lbs.

Delivery charge $40 through Sept., $45 after Oct. 1.

Yanche's notes ...
It's a small family run part time business, northeast of Gettysburg, PA. Obviously the delivery charges are for local delivery. Be sure to call for open business days and hours.

2009 vs 2008 prices. $1 decrease on white ash coal. Increase on all red ash coal. Increase on delivery charges.

Yanche wrote:
2009 vs 2008 prices. $1 decrease on white ash coal.

Greedy bastards.

Some dealers locally do have summer prices. I got a post card from the last place I bought from and they advertised their summer price at $214.00 down from $219.00, and thats pickup. I don't remember what they charge for delivery.

Jeff

We just got offered from the guys we bought from last year;

$325/ton of bagged reading delivered to midcoast Maine.