Coal truck came today. 3 tons of nut coal. Prime Pennsylvania anthracite.
My entire winter's heat, and then some, sitting in a box.
Gotta finish the trim, yet.
My handy-dandy tip-up roof,- makes the loading simple.
My h-d chute in the front, makes the unloading simple. Set down the scuttle, let gravity do the work!
Price of delivered-coal is creeping up. $175/ton this year.
The coal-dude states that a Penn State study says a ton of anthracite is equal to 185 gallons of heating oil.
AT $2.40 a gallon, that comes out to $444.
I guess coal is still pretty cost-effective.
Some day I'll go to wood. I could be self-sufficient, if I can get the redhead to do the cutting and splitting.
Ornery as she is, it might take some of the starch outa her!
