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No Idea what that means as far as a load.
Or how long.

But my 8" 93 Dodge will hold 2 ton. Barely. Corners full piled about as high
as will stay on. Be careful with turns.

20 years ago that was $200 for anthracite. Twice that plus now.
Noe sure if hard nut (bitumious) could be had for that.

Picking it up at the mine is much cheaper.
Often cheap. Cash in pocket kinda thing.
No my kind of deal.

They all think the windmills will generate enough electricity for everything to be electric.

Yes, here in central pa bulk coal is still a thing

I think a place in Harrisonburg still sells it by the bag or bulk, not sure if they deliver. I had an uncle in WV who worked in the mines, he brought his home in a pickup. Amazing heat but dirty, I had an aunt who would come and wash down the walls every spring. Spent a night sleeping on top of the covers at -15 outside in that house.

szihn,

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.



Good info. thank you'all.

I don't know the weight. I just pulled up and talked to a guy and he used his loader to fill up my 6' Ram bed. I handed him the cash and crawled out of there. Truck looked like I put a Carolina Squat on it.

I used to shovel stocker coal in the hopper with a steel scoop shovel.

People were still using it around here when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's and there were coal truck deliveries, but I haven't seen a coal burning stove or furnace in decades.

My furnace grayed are shot. Ok for wood, not coal.
I wish I could buy new ones, but the manufacturer doesn't make
them anymore. I might try to get them cast.

Anyway, if I had grates, we would use some coal.
Wood is ok, but it's not even close when you really need heat.
And coal is so steady.

I pick up tires on the side of the road an burn them. a 265/70/R17 will burn for 2 days.

Get some Osage Orange if you want wood heat. Too much of it will cook a stove or flue pipe.

I see it delivered in bulk just about every single day.

When I was a kid there were 3 coal yards within 25 miles, in Windsor and White River Junction, VT, and in Lebanon, NH. I remember the hopper cars on elevated coal trestles throwing up a cloud of dust when they dumped their loads down into the storage bins. I can't remember the last time that I saw coal anywhere except at a power plant or in a railroad car on its way to a power plant.

Do they make coal powered air conditioners? It's 81 here today and the humidity is miserable.

I miss the smell of burning coal and burning gob piles (late dumps).

Used to go with Dad & get a truckload when I was little. I saw somewhere that diamonds were formed by pressure & were found in coal. I took a 3 lb hammer & made coal powder in driveway, Dad was pissed.

In the middle of the midwest, there were not enough trees to heat, or cook with wood, when the railroads were built, farmers could buy coal, and ship crops, and livestock to market.

I just an old lump of coal but Imma gonna be a diamond someday.

Fort Lenord Wood, old barracks, when the fireman in that red helmet liner headed to the shower, don't take long if you want a hot shower.

It seems I've read, AP Hill, built his mansion to allow a coal truck to back into the furnace room.