Dirt,
Cool coal box.
When I was a kid in Ohio,we had a coal furnace in the basement.Coal was dumped on the sidewalk in front of the house,loaded in a wheelbarrow,pushed up an incline and shoveled through a small door into the coal bin. I remember my grandfather complaining when it went to $7.50 a ton.Local grown eastern Ohio coal.Dirty but burned hot.
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The Dirt wrote: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!
Which reminds me, I have to get my coal bin filled. I use nothing but Somerset County's finest Bituminous, last winter, we kept the Casa de Bob at a comfy 75 degrees. For $175!
I have heard that it's gone up to $55 a ton. I buy straight from the mine!
Bob
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Simplify.....be where everyone else is not.
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I used soft coal at $56 a ton I go through 5 tons and 275 gallons of fuel oil. Soft coal is a pain because it is all hand work but then again the heating bill is cheap even with using one tank of oil for the heating season.
Anything I can do to reduce the use of oil I'm all for it even if I have to chop down all the trees I own.
Anything I can do to reduce the use of oil I'm all for it even if I have to chop down all the trees I own.
I'm adding a pellet stove to my units this year. That will give me three sources of heat.
Hey, should we hobos invest in CP Rail? They might be doing rather well soon, though I don't know a thing about railroad stocks. Actually, if I buy any it's sure to go down. I'm a master at losing money in the market. Actually, I lost money in Vegas as well. It's only on a pool table I've done okay.
Pete, another project completed. When do you have time to fock?
Hey, should we hobos invest in CP Rail? They might be doing rather well soon, though I don't know a thing about railroad stocks. Actually, if I buy any it's sure to go down. I'm a master at losing money in the market. Actually, I lost money in Vegas as well. It's only on a pool table I've done okay.
Pete, another project completed. When do you have time to fock?
That a life will be spent gaining inches,
When this distance is read in miles.
When this distance is read in miles.
Dirt.....................Ya should have told me ya needed coal . I would have brought my trailer up and we could have gone and picked up your 3 ton...........................
Nice setup there Tramp. Now we need some pics of your engines and rollin' stock.......................
hev
Nice setup there Tramp. Now we need some pics of your engines and rollin' stock.......................
hev
If you want to find history, follow the train man..................
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Yeah, if ya look at my avitar, that's my coal bucket (renovo, you'll get that reference).
1/4 ton at a time!
Yes, coal can be a PITA, but, again, I can use VERY domestically produced energy (mine's near Berlin, 12 miles away from home) but, it also keeps my lovely bride in next to nothing all winter!
Last winter, I was watcing one of my many B&O tapes, and she was fixing the fire. T--3s racing across the Ohio flatlands, and the smell of coal smoke wafting up from the basement. To quote that old Beer commercial "It don't get any better than this!"
Speaking of brewskis, this one's on me!
1/4 ton at a time!
Yes, coal can be a PITA, but, again, I can use VERY domestically produced energy (mine's near Berlin, 12 miles away from home) but, it also keeps my lovely bride in next to nothing all winter!
Last winter, I was watcing one of my many B&O tapes, and she was fixing the fire. T--3s racing across the Ohio flatlands, and the smell of coal smoke wafting up from the basement. To quote that old Beer commercial "It don't get any better than this!"
Speaking of brewskis, this one's on me!
Bob
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Simplify.....be where everyone else is not.
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