People think I'm crazy to switch to coal

I've heard the same thing from friends who shut down their 30000 btu pellets every day to clean them. The same ones bust me for driving my 95 dodge diesel with 213k while they lease for $350- 400 a month. Don't follow the herd. They are usually wrong.

Last night was our weekly poker game and my night to host. There's beer drinking, yelling, tobacco smoke going on so I hold this in my garage workshop to keep in good graces with the wife.

At 6pm I started my Round Oak up. It had a pile of coal partially burned from the previous weekend. What I do is just start a wood fire on top to get things going and then as the coals build up, mix them in and get the coal going.

At 7pm, the garage was warm but not really toasty, as it's drafty and we were going from 25 degrees as a base temp.

At 8pm most people were comfy. The far end guy furthest from the fire still complained but everyone else was good.

At 9pm the coal at the base was a bright yellow orange glowing mass that was cranking out the heat so much most people were down to their tee shirts and commenting how warm and toasty the ol garage was.

At 10pm, everyone had a very good idea why I want to burn coal when I have 5 acres of hardwood out back.

Nice!

Crazy to burn coal? Of course you are crazy, I am just not sure what the point is here....