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My grandparents used to get a dump-truck load dumped behind the house, it sure burned hot. Made the living room pot belly stove glow if you didn't keep it choked down.

I browsed online a bit and saw coal for sale in little bags and boxes up to 40lbs.. Just curious if some areas can still get it delivered in bulk.

When I was a wee lad we lived in a house with a coal furnace. I had to shovel coal into the feed hopper every few days and clean out the clinkers.

I remember [trying] to help my grandad shovel coal into the furnace in his cellar.

In Nevada?

Anybody seen it delivered in bulk? In the last 30 years?

It comes out of the ground here.
Can get run of the mine if you are cheap, and are willing to deal with it.
Two coal yards within 20 miles, buy by the ton or delivered.

Used to take a Lesbaru wagon filled with buckets.
I shoveled the buckets, avoided fines. Weighed in and out on the scale. 5-600#/trip.
Have to carry it in anyway,
so it was easier than jumping in and out of the pickup.
The coal yard is only 1 mile from work, worked out great.

Can get Anthracite bulk here too. It's hauled about 200 miles from
those mines.

Can still get it here in ND. Cheapest heat going. In the late seventies I had a 14 by 70 mobile home. Electric was costing me 250 per month. Got a coal burner and with it delivered to my yard it was 22 dollars to heat with.keep it hot as a sweat box to. Edk

I’d burn it now if I could get a few tons delivered.

All I need is some shaker grates for my OWB Heatmor

Nope, Cedar City, Utah.

There was a coal bin built into the basement and the delivery truck would use a conveyor to fill it up.

Pellet stoves kilt the coal industry.

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Grew up burning lignite, dealing with dust, clinkers, and ash. Haul your own (we did) and it was cheap! We had a drop chute directly into the coal room, which abutted the furnace.

Don't miss it. At all!

There are coal seams still burning (lightening, mostly) underground in ND, and perhaps elsewhere. That orange/pink rock known as scoria that some people use on driveways and for decorative, I understand is naturally cooked clay from same, long ago.

Oh sure.

We used to get semi loads from northern Wyoming.


We are covered up with coal here....but it's pretty soft.

Wyoming anthracite burned cleaner and screwed up your automatic stove less.


There are several old mines around here. It's softer brown coal.

Several places around here still burn Wyoming coal.

They sure jacked the price of pellets once everyone had a pellet burner.

I’d like to get some to forge with. Hard to get here.

when I looked into it about 4 years ago it seem like getting coal was more mobbed up than the teamsters.

Nope. I know about 20 people that heat with Coal.

The "green" (communist) movement is what is closing down the coal industry. Not pellet stoves. Electric generation is the largest consumer of coal in the USA. If "green cars" become a new type of car (either requested or shoved down the throats of Americans) the part that no one is talking about is the fact it will demand at least 2X the coal burring to make enough electracy to charge them. One spokesman for the Auto Workers is saying it will be between 4 and 5.5 times more coal needed per year than waht the current demand is.. I think it's a guess as to how much more will be needed precisely, but what is not in question is that it will be A LOT more.

Alexandra O-Communist small-cortex is not speaking about that set of facts much.
Maybe she needs expert advice -----------------but could not get any time with Greta Thurnberg.

Somebody's buying it, we have coal trains coming down from the north everyday. A lot of them are nothing but coal and the train seems to go on forever.

None of them are thinking about where all of that electricity will come from. If they are there definitely aren't any ideas being presented

I can still get it here. I bought a 6' pickup bed overflowing for about $45 a couple years ago.
Not sure what it's going for now.

They don’t give a damn where electricity comes from. They want to shut down everything and control everyone. The way we live. Welhere we go. What we eat. Our education. Our travel. Our lives. It’s about control.