Where to get Coal ???

John you are right about it giving a person a headache it gave me one too not to mention it smells bad. But I did not get my fire wood supply laid in this year and what I have needs to be split etc. Luckly that I have a air tight stove. Thinking about it there are some coal fired edision plants around here. And Zug Island must use it in their blast furnices As they have a huge pile of it. So they still send it up here in traincars but I do not see them selling me any.

Billy
 
Billy what those power plants used for coal on SI years ago was soft coal and a lot of slate mixed in. I don't know what they use today but you needed a forced draft to keep it burning. We used to "borrow" some for my grand fathers derricks during WWII.

Bill
 
Thanks for the info. Ron L. I'll check those out on Tuesday when I get back to work. 2 of those are less than a 40 minute drive from me.
 
Here is Sandusky we have a "coal docks" right on the bay and the trains bring it in by the tons. A guy down the road from me also burns coal for heat and has piles of it in his backyard but I have no idea where he gets it from. I used to burn it in my ice shantys when I was in high school but My parents lived right by the tracks and I would just go down with a bucket at night and borrow a little from them. I figured it was probally just gonna fall off anyways... :wink:
 
Your welcome, Ron.

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The Anthrocite coal that Carl mentioned is the best for heating as it packs more BTU's.
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It burns longer, too. Case in point: A small town close to here in Pa. called Centralia, has "anthracite" under ground veins burning that weave under the town. Since May of 1962! The government bought the town and made everybody move out, except for a few old-timers that won't budge. They're still burning strong and every once in a while, smoke bursts come up throught the ground to the surface. Wouldn't that be an exciting place to live !!! :?
 
Ron, I think I remember a show on television about that. Kinda odd. Its basically a ghost town now
 
I just got this one. Dennis coal & stoves, Wauseon OH 419-335-4665. That is a little west of Toledo Ohio. The card says Hard and soft coal bulk or bag. Hard and soft coal stoves. Got it from a bandjo picker last night. He said with the hard coal he has to have a really hot fire to get it started and leave the draft wide open to keep it burning. And that the soft coal burns pretty much like wood. I plan on calling my grandma after she gets out of church and see what she has to say about if as I have never burned coal before. So maby doing a search on coal stove and supplies may help others find some near you.

Billy
 
Thanks Billy, I'll give it a shot. I tried Ron L.'s Ga web search and came up with 3 possibilities but none have yeilded anything, so I'm still looking.
 
Columbus Coal and Lime only sells building and landscaping materials now. Probably isn't anyone left working there who remembers what coal is for.
 
Well a few weeks ago with some help from Bigdog I finally got my coal, or at least enough for a couple of years for me. I was up Bigdogs way and we went over to Amanda, Ohio and got a pickup load for my shop. The guy that sold it to me is still trying to figure out why a guy from Ga would drive to Ohio to get coal mined in Ky. :D It'll be something to talk about for a while!!
Sure makes a good warm stove to sit by while working on Cub projects!!

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Thanks Bigdog & Bossdog (cookies were great!!!!!)
 
8) Hi Ron

I finally got my coal last week. I was only able to get a half ton in my four cylinder ranger. I think its pretty neat to burn a "rock." My little brother stoped by yesterday said boy its warm in here :!: I looked and it was 76. I am still geting used to burning it. My stove has a door vent with a bi-metal coil to regulate heat. But the coal in the back goes out. So I have been closing the vent and have to crack the ash tray so the air comes up from the bottom and will burn eavenly. Its gone wild once or twice. But I'm learning.

Billy
 
Takes a little getting used to but what my grandfather taught me came back once I started messing with it, but not before I had a cherry red top on the stove a time or two :oops: I open the bottom for a draft and adjust the damper as needed to regulate the heat. Burns real evenlso far.

Ron
 
Thanks for the info Ron

I have a 7"x12" flue chiminy. The gas hot water heater and furnance use it too. Seems when the furnance kicks on I loose draft to the coal and if its low it goes out. Unlike wood which it didn't bother. Starting now when I bank it for the nite I put wood on the right side and coal on the right if it goes out the wood will relight it. I should have replaced the furnance two years ago with a high efficency furnance that does nto need a chimney mine is shot just not in the budget. I need to get the lister going and see how much heat I get out of it. Hopefully between that and the wood/coal stove I will not need a furnance.

I haven't forgot about your spacers. My brother has been too busy at work and his projects. And I do not think I can cut it off strait with my old cutoff band saw.

Billy
 
Billy:

I have a 7"x12" flue chiminy. The gas hot water heater and furnance use it too.
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I used to have a shared chimney flue with my wood furnace and my propane back-up. Was up to code at one time, but about 10 years ago, they made me separate them -- new propane installation. Also checked with my insurance and the fire marshall and building inspectors... NLC -- No Longer Code..

I would check with your local authorities... and your insurance agent. Best to know before something happens.. Here they seemed worried about blowback and excess infiltration of exhaust gases....

I never had a problem, but hey... to keep it legal, had to change it....

And, since I built a surround around my exterior chimney, I have better flue temps, no creosote buildup, no blow back problems at all. Works good!
 
Thanks Rudi

I have always been a put it together and try it kinda guy. If it don't work go back and find out what I overlooked. I am not very smart but feel I make up for it in common sense. I do not know the math to figure out stuff but am very confindent in finding feeling my way through in a real world mechinal way. My little brother was over yesterday. Figuring out pulley size for the engine and generator using pie. Then went back figured it at belt speed inches per second at the engine and generator. I thought it was pretty neat waching him do it.

Billy
 
Billy:

Anybody who can do the stuff you can do, well... that says a lot right there. Besides... to me smart means natty as in a dresser... intelligence, now that is something else. There is book smarts, and real world smarts, book learnin and life's learnin...... all are good in their own right, but the first without the second is only half smart :!: :idea: :roll: 8) .

My Father-in-law God Bless him, is one of the smartest, most inventive able persons that I have ever met. Due to growing up in hard scrabble times, in the depression, and being one of the strongest in the family, he got to go to school for all of 3 months or so. Can't read a word, but boy, can he figger.... the stuff he can do is amazing.

He is an icon of real world smarts... we need people like him to make sure the world is a balanced place.

And, don't denigrate yourself... you are a pretty sharp dude.. and don't you ferget it young fella :!: :D
 
Billy,
I'm not in a hurry to get the spacer. Thanks for finding the right pipe size to make it. I can't find anything in my pile of scrap stuff that will work.
I read about the Lister and it will be 8) to see it in operation at Cubfest. Look foward to seeing you again.

Thanks
Ron
 
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