Tractor Supply Stores to Start Carrying Bagged Anthracite
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My local store is selling nut for 5.29 per bag, seems to be a discount because the season is coming to a quick end
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We buy a lot of horse stuff there and apparently the 10% or 15% coupons go to those that spend according to a long time store worker in Chester here. The season is not ending here and it would appear and the sale is on.
I just wish I could depend on the quality. Nothing is more aggravating than poor quality coal. They sell a lot of pellets here but as usual do not have a clue about coal. They sell to little and could care less. We will burn 20 tons this year at this rate and it all gets moved around by Homer buckets. I depend on totally getting the best stuff and for me it ends up being cheaper. As my street spins into outer space with solar I spin more and more towards coal. One of us is nuts.
I just wish I could depend on the quality. Nothing is more aggravating than poor quality coal. They sell a lot of pellets here but as usual do not have a clue about coal. They sell to little and could care less. We will burn 20 tons this year at this rate and it all gets moved around by Homer buckets. I depend on totally getting the best stuff and for me it ends up being cheaper. As my street spins into outer space with solar I spin more and more towards coal. One of us is nuts.
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I don't sense I am getting an endorsement of TSC coal. Shame.
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If they sold Lehigh I'd totally be onboard. I buy bulk but have in the past, like just last week, bought bagged coal. The last thing I want is some crappy coal with foreign matter and over or undersized coal. Maybe Matt at Lehigh can talk to corporate TSC and get them onboard!
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Idk how much the coal varies from store to store, but I bought like 20bags last year to start the season and it burned fine for me. It was a little more volitile than the Lehigh so I needed to make adjustments and back off the fees for the Lehigh when I made the switch. With the 10% off coupon it would be worth a shot, you may even be able to talk the manager into knocking a few points off if you take rest.
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are there any real answers as to where they are getting this hit and miss coal or just speculation there people dam sure dont know sxxt !!
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15% off is a given, perhaps more if you clean them out. I bet I could clean out the Chester store and not notice the difference in my inventory. This is not coal country. I am to scared to inherit a few tons of c rap coal now that really would be expensive. I guess I will never know. I suppose I should buy bag of say nut. Sunny will eat anything and lay it out and put a bucket of Direnzo beside it. Then see how it burns. Then offer $4 a bag to clear them out. Let me think about that one.
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It has been Reading Coal.
And reviews don't mean ship w/o listing whether it is rice or nut coal.
I gather that the rice is good and the nut is c rap.
My results are that the Nut burns alright it's just that sizing is wide...dust up through stove sizes mixed and with too much nonburnable bigger pieces of slate.
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Yes Reading. Some of what I burned is about as good as Ive had and some of it is not very good. Hit and miss, bag to bag. I did get some yesterday because of the sale $60/ton less than my Blaschak makes it worth my time and fuss. No way would I pay full price.
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That would be...NUT size, right?warminmn wrote: ↑Wed. Mar. 14, 2018 9:20 pmYes Reading. Some of what I burned is about as good as Ive had and some of it is not very good. Hit and miss, bag to bag. I did get some yesterday because of the sale $60/ton less than my Blaschak makes it worth my time and fuss. No way would I pay full price.
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Thanks
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My Blaschak dealer said two years ago he was afraid TSC would put him out of business. Then where would I get reliably-decent coal? So far he said he hasn't been hurt too much. I think that is partially because TSC, here anyway, is so unreliable about even having coal in stock. $60/ton is a lot, but not a killer for somebody like me that burns less than 3 tons. So I will keep my business with my Blaschak guy.
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I think you nailed the key word, reliability. Not keeping it in stock and not being consistant bag to bag, both being reliability. i dont count on them but when the sales happen I get some if its there. I still get blaschak from a dealer too.rberq wrote: ↑Thu. Mar. 15, 2018 8:25 amMy Blaschak dealer said two years ago he was afraid TSC would put him out of business. Then where would I get reliably-decent coal? So far he said he hasn't been hurt too much. I think that is partially because TSC, here anyway, is so unreliable about even having coal in stock. $60/ton is a lot, but not a killer for somebody like me that burns less than 3 tons. So I will keep my business with my Blaschak guy.