Kimmels Stove Size Vs Blaschak Stove Size in a Crawford 40
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So seeing as Joe appeared to have issues with this coal, I'm going to try it over sat/sun to see how it burns in my Crawford.
I dumped it on the garage floor ( I know Paul, I'm a hack ) and you can see the fines and what looks to be sizes all the way from rice to egg
Also it's a different color than the Santa Claus but that could be oil I guess as its kind of slimy and has been in my dry warm garage for a week. The Santa coal is on the right.
It will go in the pot Saturday after lunch.
I dumped it on the garage floor ( I know Paul, I'm a hack ) and you can see the fines and what looks to be sizes all the way from rice to egg
Also it's a different color than the Santa Claus but that could be oil I guess as its kind of slimy and has been in my dry warm garage for a week. The Santa coal is on the right.
It will go in the pot Saturday after lunch.
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Wow, I have never seen such sloppy coal from a bag. All the Kimmel nut I bought from TS has been really good. Wish I could find more.
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The Kimmel nut I've gotten from TSC has been a variety of sizes but it burns well in the Marks Brothers. I'm going to get another 1/2 ton this weekend. Lisa
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Hey Scott, are you going to put the Kimmel's in the stove "as is" or will you leave the fines out and just burn the stove/nut size pieces?
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Come on Lee, Scott's got a REAL stove!
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Yeah Scott, that's really loaded with small stuff compared to the bags of Kimmel's nut. They have some but no where near that bad.scalabro wrote:So seeing as Joe appeared to have issues with this coal, I'm going to try it over sat/sun to see how it burns in my Crawford.
I dumped it on the garage floor ( I know Paul, I'm a hack ) and you can see the fines and what looks to be sizes all the way from rice to egg
Also it's a different color than the Santa Claus but that could be oil I guess as its kind of slimy and has been in my dry warm garage for a week. The Santa coal is on the right.
It will go in the pot Saturday after lunch.
So glad that isn't my garage floor !
Paul
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Just the nut, stove and egg sizes that were all in the bag....looks like I'm gonna be dusting it off with a 3 inch brush......lol!Lightning wrote:Hey Scott, are you going to put the Kimmel's in the stove "as is" or will you leave the fines out and just burn the stove/nut size pieces?
It's funny because I bought some stove size Kimmels a couple years a go from the same joint Joe got it from, to burn in a Harman MKII I first had. Same crap, loaded with junk. Kind of odd the stove size has junk but folks are reporting the nut is good stuff. Maybe it's from a different bagging location
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I'm not sure w/ yours Lee, you add or delete something every week or so. Just to keep us on our toes I'd bet.
Lightning wrote:Oh. So what's that make mine? Hahahafreetown fred wrote:Come on Lee, Scott's got a REAL stove!
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This will be interesting I'll be watching .....
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Hi Scott how you doin! The kimmels 'nut this yr seems different from last. Too much stuff that is disguised as coal but won't burn. I also experienced klinker shut down about a month ago with it. I realize you have stove size and like you said earlier, it could be from a different bagging co. I hope all goes well with the test but if I was a betting man I would say Blashack will rein supreme. Stay warm either way.
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That look almost identical to the bagged reading I bought this fall stove size I used 2 bags over the cold weekend and this is what came out, I've been using the nut kimmels and other then a few clinkers its been great, the big clinker came from the reading stove
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From what my coal dealer told me, and Kimmel's website seems to confirm, Kimmel's is just a bagging company. They don't own any mines and they don't have a breaker to sort the coal. They buy from breakers and bag what is sent them. The stove size may come from a different breaker than their nut size.michaelanthony wrote:Hi Scott how you doin! The kimmels 'nut this yr seems different from last. Too much stuff that is disguised as coal but won't burn. I also experienced klinker shut down about a month ago with it. I realize you have stove size and like you said earlier, it could be from a different bagging co. I hope all goes well with the test but if I was a betting man I would say Blashack will rein supreme. Stay warm either way.
Paul