Coal Bin Pictures and Designs
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Yow! that looks like a back breaker. Nice clean stack job... if anyone starts shooting at ya, you know where to go This is my first year as well, I thought about bags also, but with being able to save a couple of bucks and the fact that I have no where to stack the bags, I went with the ole coal bin approach. The nice thing about it is every time you start to fuss over a detail, you say to yourself its a coal bin for crying out loud It cost me around 300 or maybe a little less, for all the pressure treated wood, OSB and stain. Lots of screws (I used the expensive kind for decking that can hold up to PT wood) and time. It took around a week spending a little here and there this past week. With the weather so hot I had to stop from time to time to jump in the pool.. then you have a tall cold one and next thing you know ... coal bin, what coal bin
Anyway, good luck to you this winter, I hope our new coal experience goes smoothly.
Chris
Anyway, good luck to you this winter, I hope our new coal experience goes smoothly.
Chris
k9 Bara wrote:Good job Getting stoked. That will be one of my chores for next year. But this year, my breezeway (room connecting house to garage) is acting as my coal bin. First year burning so Im guessing that this will be enough. It's 4.8 ton, 4 pallets. I like the bags. The only prob I have with them is the yellow'ish oil or water/ fluid.. whatever it is. It gets on you when moving the bags. Other than that, out of 240 bags, only had a hand full or so that had the heat seal at the top of bag not complete and would loose coal. I like the bags like I said but bulk was $40 cheaper a ton.
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K9 what size is the space your 4.8 tons of coal is taking up?
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I hope you put an extra 2 by 6 or two under the platform. That's a LOT of weight in a small area. You have about 225 pounds per square foot. That's more than most floors are rated. I'd even be careful of where I placed my body as I installed braces.
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The mother load, well 2.5 ton. My coal guy is 83 years old I helped out with spreading the coal around in the bin
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GR, I'm surprised the liquid was yellowish. The Blaschaks I got last winter had a blackish liquid but was pretty wet from being stored outside.Maybe they are using veg. oil?
Stoked, S-w-e-e-t
Stoked, S-w-e-e-t
Nice neat job!k9 Bara wrote:Good job Getting stoked. That will be one of my chores for next year. But this year, my breezeway (room connecting house to garage) is acting as my coal bin. First year burning so Im guessing that this will be enough. It's 4.8 ton, 4 pallets. I like the bags. The only prob I have with them is the yellow'ish oil or water/ fluid.. whatever it is. It gets on you when moving the bags. Other than that, out of 240 bags, only had a hand full or so that had the heat seal at the top of bag not complete and would loose coal. I like the bags like I said but bulk was $40 cheaper a ton.
Allot neater than mine but then rice stack better than "Nut" (& I'm lazy!)
(just 2.4 pallets there)
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OK... skip the braces. I pictured in my head it was the landing of a split level ranch. Oh duh!k9 Bara wrote:Yeah, concrete.
Good looking pile Stoked!
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Nice Pclfal! Another guy with the studs on the inside Also, I like the shrubbery, with the path running down the middle... (a path a path) sorry, my monte python is kicking in. but that really does look good.