Scrambled Eggs on My Blaschak Bags?

Cold_Mainer · Post by **Cold_Mainer** » Sat. Dec. 27, 2008 9:38 pm

Was looking over my stock when I noticed this yellowish stuff on my bags of Blaschak. Has a little white flaky material mixed in.

The bags of coal were a little damp when I put them in the basement and as we stacked them some water actually ran out of the bags.

Almost looks like sulfur secreting out of the bags. I haven't started burning the Blaschak yet.

Any ideas on what this stuff is? I have 2 other tons of coal in bags in the basement but they are not exhibiting this type of material on the outside of them.

Post by **coaledsweat** » Sat. Dec. 27, 2008 9:45 pm

Put a match to it, it will let you know if it is sulfur.

av8r · Post by **av8r** » Sat. Dec. 27, 2008 9:57 pm

Mold, perhaps

Cold_Mainer · Post by **Cold_Mainer** » Sat. Dec. 27, 2008 10:02 pm

av8r wrote:Mold, perhaps

Basements dry so no mold problems there or with anything else.

Light a match to it?..Hmmmmm have to scrape some off the bags into a can .........

whistlenut · Post by **whistlenut** » Sat. Dec. 27, 2008 11:13 pm

Is it possible that it's pollen from being stored outside? It looks like the puddles in fall and the color the ground gets after a rain in pollen season? I have never seem anything like this either.

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 4:08 am

There's fungus among us! One of the pics is pretty clear, it sure looks like fungus growth.

JohnnyAsbury · Post by **JohnnyAsbury** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 7:34 am

I have one ton of Blaschac that has the same crud on the bags as yours. This ton looked a bit more weathered then the rest, even the bags were yellowed. I fill my buckets in the basement, and vac up the crud left behind. The coal burns ok. I just figured the coal was in someones "yard" too long, and got wet.

TimV · Post by **TimV** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 8:14 am

Looks more like Mushroom than egg from here.

Hey Mikey come try this new cereal.

beatle78 · Post by **beatle78** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 8:28 am

Freddy wrote:There's fungus among us! One of the pics is pretty clear, it sure looks like fungus growth.

Freddy there's a lot there, don't you mean fungi?

Post by **coaledsweat** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 10:03 am

If it feels hard and gritty it may be minerals, salts and calcium like the stuff you get on glasses in the dishwasher with hard water. If soft and degrades between the fingers, it is probably mold, fungus or something like it.

billw · Post by **billw** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 10:20 am

A word of advice: Don't eat the yellow snow

Cold_Mainer · Post by **Cold_Mainer** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 11:00 am

Yup, Its gritty beweeen the fingers. Doesn't smell like sulfur, even when I gave it some flame. Weird. Nothing elso on any other brand bags. Mold? Glad the A Unit can't log into my forum account........

Looked at some of the other Blaschak bags and see where one has been leaking the yellow stuff on the cement floor. I must a got some sorta "bonus material" in my bags, maybe a "Super Blaschak" that will heat my house on one bag a year.

ErikLaurence · Post by **ErikLaurence** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 12:19 pm

It looks like foam insulation.

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 12:33 pm

beatle78 wrote:Freddy there's a lot there, don't you mean fungi?

Fungi would indicate two different species of fungus

....besides..."fungi among us" doesn't roll off the tongue and "fungi among I", well, ya know....

It's mold, fungus. Look at the middle photo, it clearly shows the concentric growth so common with a fungi life pattern.

Cold_Mainer · Post by **Cold_Mainer** » Sun. Dec. 28, 2008 12:45 pm

Freddy wrote:
beatle78 wrote:Freddy there's a lot there, don't you mean fungi?
Fungi would indicate two different species of fungus ....besides..."fungi among us" doesn't roll off the tongue and "fungi among I", well, ya know....

It's mold, fungus. Look at the middle photo, it clearly shows the concentric growth so common with a fungi life pattern.

Must be something on or in the Blaschak bags to precipitate this if in fact it is mold. Nothing growing anywhere else or on any of the Hudson or Reading bags of coal I have I the house. Seems to like the Blaschak only.

And on the bags where this stuff is accumulating, there are no holes in the bags so its clearly something that seems to be accumulating / growing

Guess, to be safe than sorry, a little spray with some diluted clorox to grind this puppy to a halt. Don't need it in the house. Wife finds out I'll be lugging 3 tons of coal back outside.

Scrambled Eggs on My Blaschak Bags?

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