Bonanza of coal

[Phil Patrick]

I had again one of those strokes of luck that happen on rare occasion. A friend of mine recently purchased a home. It is about 100 years old. In the basement was the original coal furnace(not in use). Well, beside it was the coal bunker, a room about 10x8 feet. It is half full of coal. He called me and asked me if I would want it. I took some home and tested it in the forge. It burns rather well with pretty low ash and lots of heat. The interesting thing is that it is very small pieces, about the size of lima beans. So now I am the proud owner of probably a ton and a half at least of coal for no cost!!!!

[Ron Hicks]

I think thats what you want small lumps
Good for you
Ron

[ApprenticeMan]

Nice, SMall coal is EXACTLY what you want, congratulations man, you got a good score for sure there.

[jayco]

around here [eastern ky] ,we call it "stoker coal". the senior members can probably tell you all about it. ----happy smithing!

[primtechsmith]

I prefer lump coal over the small stuff.........But hey. If its free, then it is just right! Congrats on the find!!!!!!!!

Peyton

[bruce wilcock]

well this side the pond stoker coal is just that ,the stokers pinched it and sold it ,you could tell it easy becouse it was a uniform size to go through the feed hoppers and it was better coal than you could usualy get ,it belonged to the navy.