COAL BIN Pics

k9 Bara · By: **k9 Bara** On: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:18 pm

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.

Linc · By: **Linc** On: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:28 pm

GR, That is one heck of a stash. :shock:

GettingStoked · By: **GettingStoked** On: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:40 pm

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 :doh:

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 :cheers:

and next thing you know ... coal bin, what coal bin :confused:

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.

Adamiscold · By: **Adamiscold** On: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:40 am

K9 what size is the space your 4.8 tons of coal is taking up?

k9 Bara · By: **k9 Bara** On: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:17 pm

Adamiscold,

It measures 8' x 5', 2 back rows are just a lil under 6' high.

Freddy · By: **Freddy** On: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:35 pm

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.

coalkirk · By: **coalkirk** On: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:52 pm

I'm not sure but I think that's a concrete floor. (I hope it is) :shock:

k9 Bara · By: **k9 Bara** On: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:25 pm

Yeah, concrete. I prob should of mentioned that.

GettingStoked · By: **GettingStoked** On: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:39 pm

The mother load, well 2.5 ton. 8-)

My coal guy is 83 years old :shock:

I helped out with spreading the coal around in the bin :roll:

and

Linc · By: **Linc** On: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:46 pm

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

Devil505 · By: **Devil505** On: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:57 pm

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.

Nice neat job!

Allot neater than mine but then rice stack better than "Nut"

(& I'm lazy!)
(just 2.4 pallets there)

Freddy · By: **Freddy** On: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:35 pm

k9 Bara wrote:Yeah, concrete.

OK... skip the braces.

I pictured in my head it was the landing of a split level ranch. Oh duh! :lol:

Good looking pile Stoked!

pclfal · By: **pclfal** On: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:27 pm

Thought I would try this!

k9 Bara · By: **k9 Bara** On: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:45 pm

Yup! That sure looks nice. How much is that holding?

vtec350 · By: **vtec350** On: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:17 pm

k9 Bara wrote:How much is that holding?

Look at the bottom of the 3rd picture, 3 tons of rice.
Put your glasses on K9 :eek2:

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