Coal

[dj1701]

When your heat comes via a dump trailer and a Farmall tractor you know your in good hands...

Shout out to Dave Wendel and sons. Great family, great business.

Thank you Dave...

 

[Alan W.]

When your heat comes via a dump trailer and a Farmall tractor you know your in good hands...

Shout out to Dave Wendel and sons. Great family, great business.

Thank you Dave...

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Remember riding with my grandfather delivering coal.
Dont know anybody around here that burns coal. It is good heat.

 

[CalG]

Hard to get coal here in S.Vt. I looked hard a few years back. Not enough demand to justify the service I was told.

25 years back, many businesses were still burning coal, or just making conversion to fuel oil.

 

[MossRoad]

Our first house was built in the 50s and had a coal chute. Our current house was built in the 20's and there isn't a coal chute. I suspect it was removed at some point during remodels over the century.

 

[LouNY]

I used coal right up to the end of last year.

 

[John0829]

We had a coal fired stoker in the basement (no outside access) for years, nasty mess lugging in buckets of coal and the ashes out. Then there was having to keep the flue cleaned out from the soot build up which was an even bigger mess.

One of my happiest moments was when we finally got it replaced with a gas fired furnace.

 

[bdhsfz6]

I live near the anthracite coal mines in northeastern PA and heated with it for over 30 years. Up until last year, I used to take my dump trailer to the breaker and buy 5 tons of rice coal for my Harman Stoker stove. I used the trailer as a coal bin and carried it to the stove in buckets.

Even here near the coal fields, and hauling it myself, the price per BTU is now so close to that of oil, that it's hardly worth it anymore. Last winter, we gave up on coal and switched to oil. The total heating bill using oil was just slightly higher than it was with coal. At my age, it just isn't worth all the effort.

I keep the stove ready to go though, if the price difference ever makes it worthwhile again.

 

[caver]

I lived off base in Bonnie Scotland and the GF and I would have the coalmonger drop off a gunny sack full of coal for the three coal burning fireplaces in our flat. Once I had a load of wood delivered it was all split and maybe 6" long so it fits fine in the small fireplace.

 

[tude]

My grandparents started dairy farming in the late 1920's. They told me they switched over from heating their house from wood to coal once they could afford it. It was one their biggest joys of not having to cut firewood.

 

[bdhsfz6]

The only thing I regret about not burning coal anymore is, I no longer have coal ash to spread on my private road.
I now have to buy anti skid for the spreader.