Kimmel Coal Quality
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most if not all of my kimmels is big and chunky love it ccalled my store 10 mins.. ago n truck just got ther not to be unloaded till tom .thursday . hope my ton on there and they had more on order to . the last santa I had . was full of fines and dust understand that we cant have it all // all the time but for the price of kimm.. and santa for now I stay with kimm... !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My kimmels was the same big and better uniform sizes and burned great. Hopefully my coal is being unloaded tonight as well. I'm burning Reading nut now and I swear there's 5 lbs of crumbs in every bagcoalfan wrote:most if not all of my kimmels is big and chunky love it ccalled my store 10 mins.. ago n truck just got ther not to be unloaded till tom .thursday . hope my ton on there and they had more on order to . the last santa I had . was full of fines and dust understand that we cant have it all // all the time but for the price of kimm.. and santa for now I stay with kimm... !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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dont have reading close 2 hrs away and 7$ a bag no thanx !!! just waitin for my call !!!!!again cant complain on the size hope like hll it stay that way few crumbs and dust ok we cant have it all /the price and quality dam good so far !!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have had that as well, no problem compared to all the fines and pea size and smaller "nut" from Reading I'm going through lately.Davian wrote:My most recent bag of Kimmel has some ridiculous Stove size chunks of coal in it. A couple were like baseball-sized. Very odd.
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Just a heads up for those with shaker grates.
Been burning Tractor Supply Kimmels for the last two days as the temps go from near 60 down to the 30's.
During the yesterday morning grate rotating routine they jammed. Whenever that's happened before, I just left it to burn the jammed piece of coal loose. During last night's grate shaking, it was still jammed, but I was able to shake the jam free. A rather large iron "meteorite" fell into the ash pan.
I was amazed a clinker that big would even be able to get through the grates during a rotation.
This TS Kimmel's has been burning hot. Looks like it also has enough iron in that red ash coal to form a clinker that big in less than 24 hours. This clinker is bigger than a golf ball and hard as stone.
Paul
Been burning Tractor Supply Kimmels for the last two days as the temps go from near 60 down to the 30's.
During the yesterday morning grate rotating routine they jammed. Whenever that's happened before, I just left it to burn the jammed piece of coal loose. During last night's grate shaking, it was still jammed, but I was able to shake the jam free. A rather large iron "meteorite" fell into the ash pan.
I was amazed a clinker that big would even be able to get through the grates during a rotation.
This TS Kimmel's has been burning hot. Looks like it also has enough iron in that red ash coal to form a clinker that big in less than 24 hours. This clinker is bigger than a golf ball and hard as stone.
Paul
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That sucks! I unfortunately have 2500lbs of this Kimmel junk now . Thought I was buying Blashak but the supplier never once told me that had switched .Sunny Boy wrote:Just a heads up for those with shaker grates.
Been burning Tractor Supply Kimmels for the last two days as the temps go from near 60 down to the 30's.
During the yesterday morning grate rotating routine they jammed. Whenever that's happened before, I just left it to burn the jammed piece of coal loose. During last night's grate shaking, it was still jammed, but I was able to shake the jam free. A rather large iron "meteorite" fell into the ash pan.
I was amazed a clinker that big would even be able to get through the grates during a rotation.
This TS Kimmel's has been burning hot. Looks like it also has enough iron in that red ash coal to form a clinker that big in less than 24 hours. This clinker is bigger than a golf ball and hard as stone.
Paul
No clinkers to report from Blashak last year . I will report in the next few days what I think of this Kimmel mess .
What mines do they get it from anyways ? Their website is lacking
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Just wanted to mention ... although I've been real happy with Blaschak over the past 7 seasons or so, there were a few times (before I got the stoker boiler installed) that I had Blaschak LOADED with rocks which jammed my grates open so bad I was dumping 3-5 fires a WEEK!! I was so pissed off I was about to go back to oil for a bit there. My stress level was at it's absolute MAX!
It was part of a 14 pallet load I bought in '10. Seemed like most of it was rocky like that. Once I got through the 8 or so pallets of that crap, everything was fine. Haven't had any issues at all with it in the stoker, other than ash fusing together in chunks, and stacking up and blocking the feeding process, if I don't get down there often enough to inspect things ...
It was part of a 14 pallet load I bought in '10. Seemed like most of it was rocky like that. Once I got through the 8 or so pallets of that crap, everything was fine. Haven't had any issues at all with it in the stoker, other than ash fusing together in chunks, and stacking up and blocking the feeding process, if I don't get down there often enough to inspect things ...
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I have been burning Lehigh for a month or so now and intermittently have benn burning a few stoves of kimmel. When I first got the Kimmel I burned several bags and thought the quality was decent. then I started into the Lehigh and saw a noticeable difference. The Kimmels needs more air to stay lit while the Lehigh can purr for over 2 days shut down as tight as my Hitzer can get.
The Kimmels stuff I got has a texture more like charcoal and is not a hard shiny black tar veneer like Lehigh.
So, antectodaly I can vouch that at least Lehigh > Kimmel by a noticeable margin.
I have two tons stacked under my fire escape - Ill use it when to good stuff runs out and then Ill make another trip to Lehigh in two years. I won't buy Kimmels again now that I've burnt both and see the difference between it and Leghigh for $175/ton.
However as poined out, Kimmels is a crap shoot and they bag up stuff from wherever they get it. The stuff I burnt so far is not worth $250/ton when I can get significantly better
The Kimmels stuff I got has a texture more like charcoal and is not a hard shiny black tar veneer like Lehigh.
So, antectodaly I can vouch that at least Lehigh > Kimmel by a noticeable margin.
I have two tons stacked under my fire escape - Ill use it when to good stuff runs out and then Ill make another trip to Lehigh in two years. I won't buy Kimmels again now that I've burnt both and see the difference between it and Leghigh for $175/ton.
However as poined out, Kimmels is a crap shoot and they bag up stuff from wherever they get it. The stuff I burnt so far is not worth $250/ton when I can get significantly better
siblay wrote:Checking to see if anyone can enlighten me about/ vouch for the quality of Kimmel. I saw a post on here from 2006 that pretty much summed it up as hit or miss, but that they might be opening a different mine and bagging a little better quality product.
We have an outlet locally that has some pretty decent pricing, but you can't burn a price.
Anyone?
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I have heard some on the forum state that Kimmels bought xyz coal co. Being 650 miles from coal central the Kimmels from TSC for 4.99/bag is better than the Reading I've burned for the last yr and a half and comparable to Blaschak @ a dollar less per bag. If I didn't live up here but had pick of the litter for coal, that my friend is easy street. I will heat my home for $4.99 a day in northern Maine and could care less what name is on the bag because last yr truckers were telling my previous supplier the Reading was really Blaschak and if it was it still sucked. Stay warm everyone! MikesmokeyCityTeacher wrote:............However as poined out, Kimmels is a crap shoot and they bag up stuff from wherever they get it. The stuff I burnt so far is not worth $250/ton when I can get significantly better