I Got My Coal
- coaledsweat
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- Coal Size/Type: Pea
100# bags of coal? Gadzooks, that's heavy.
- lowfog01
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- Location: Springfield, VA
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Mark II & Mark I
- Coal Size/Type: nut/pea
You can say that again! It looked like "by God these bags say 100 lbs so that's what we Will put in them." Our crew was made of skinny twigs of youth from the church who didn't weigh more then 115 lbs themselves. And just for to make it more fun the bags had deteriorated over the years so the crew was dealing with that, too. It was an interesting day. I hope it burns easily after all is said and done. Lisa
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- Coal Size/Type: Pea/Nut/Stove
Just like '7 layer dip'...
Unless it is real cold you want to fill the gaps of that Stove coal...
Did a lot of 'urban mining'...
The more difficult the extraction, the better the deposit...
I have had people pay me to remove their problem, usually relators 'cleaning up the place...
The deposits usually are older better quality coal from 'back in the day'!..
Unless it is real cold you want to fill the gaps of that Stove coal...
Did a lot of 'urban mining'...
The more difficult the extraction, the better the deposit...
I have had people pay me to remove their problem, usually relators 'cleaning up the place...
The deposits usually are older better quality coal from 'back in the day'!..
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- Coal Size/Type: nut and pea
A geological report of these deposits, such as yours is interesting.CapeCoaler wrote:Just like '7 layer dip'...
Unless it is real cold you want to fill the gaps of that Stove coal...
Did a lot of 'urban mining'...
The more difficult the extraction, the better the deposit...
I have had people pay me to remove their problem, usually relators 'cleaning up the place...
The deposits usually are older better quality coal from 'back in the day'!..
What instruments you use in the detection and of course the mining equipment is also of interest.
- coal stoker
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1986 EFM DF520
- Coal Size/Type: Rice/Anthracite
- Other Heating: oil fired boiler
Got mine to.
Worked out at 157.00 a ton with delivery
20.2 tons
I guess they couldn't fit 22 ton in a Tri-axle.
Still a great savings, I am hoping for 2 years out of it. fingers crossed.
I love the way that wood boiler is surrounded, oh well I guess I'll just not use it.
Worked out at 157.00 a ton with delivery
20.2 tons
I guess they couldn't fit 22 ton in a Tri-axle.
Still a great savings, I am hoping for 2 years out of it. fingers crossed.
I love the way that wood boiler is surrounded, oh well I guess I'll just not use it.
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- StokerDon
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- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Wow CS, that is one heck of a coal bin! Pretty handy look'in yellow coal bucket to!
-Don
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- johnjoseph
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Will have my 3 tons of coal delivered on 9/14/16 at $285 a ton delivered. Looking forward to having my bin full early this year. Topped of my oil tank at 1.99 a gallon and will have a 100 dollar credit cause I have not use much since mid May.
- coal stoker
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Thanks Don,
I was so happy last year I just kept running and I still have a ton or so left.
I expected to get more in the coal bin, but she filled right up with the 20.2 ton.
Nice to have all fuel ready to go, just need to fire up the yellow coal bucket and fill some coal skids inside the basement.
Added a homemade dust separator to my coal vac, just need to try her out.
I was so happy last year I just kept running and I still have a ton or so left.
I expected to get more in the coal bin, but she filled right up with the 20.2 ton.
Nice to have all fuel ready to go, just need to fire up the yellow coal bucket and fill some coal skids inside the basement.
Added a homemade dust separator to my coal vac, just need to try her out.
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- oliver power
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Put my order in last night. 6 ton of Buck, at $250.00 per.
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- Coal Size/Type: Pea/Nut/Stove
My work brings me to peoples houses...franco b wrote:
A geological report of these deposits, such as yours is interesting.
What instruments you use in the detection and of course the mining equipment is also of interest.
Comcast, the local cable provider, likes to leave their modems in basements for the ease of install...
Coal usually lives in the basement...
As people age coal can no longer be brought up or people just quit burnin' it...
Somebody inherits the house or needs to clean it up for sale...
Oh and people know I burn coal so...
I know of a few 5+ ton bins that have been unused for several years...
Just makin a list an checkin it twice...
Some of the hauls have been from remote locations and have been there 20+ years...
Nice coal, shoudda seen the size of that Stove coal, softballs I tell ya...
This last week I encountered a double basement mine score. The first deposit is about a 1/4 ton of pea coal. The second deposit is about 1/2 ton of nut. Both deposits are in old coal basement bunkers
My Vig 2310 will burn both after I bucket the score out. I have a one ton bin outside the kitchen door and I burn the pea when I first light the stove off on coal so it's going on the right side of the bin. When it gets colder I do a pea/nut mix. The nut goes on the left side of the bin and I scoop from the middle of the bin for the mix.
3/4 ton of exactly the size I use and the price is right. "Haul it out and you can have it. It's dirty and I don't want it." she said. Yes Maaammm no problem.
My Vig 2310 will burn both after I bucket the score out. I have a one ton bin outside the kitchen door and I burn the pea when I first light the stove off on coal so it's going on the right side of the bin. When it gets colder I do a pea/nut mix. The nut goes on the left side of the bin and I scoop from the middle of the bin for the mix.
3/4 ton of exactly the size I use and the price is right. "Haul it out and you can have it. It's dirty and I don't want it." she said. Yes Maaammm no problem.