Mammoth Materials Coal
- windyhill4.2
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Thanks, your coal does look very even sized & clean.
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I hear only good thinks about Direnzo. Can't wait until spring until I get my boiler, that's all I plan on burning.
- BlackBetty06
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I got an email back from Direnzo. They said their coal currently is 180 a ton and 9-10% ash. They are reporting " pinkish/tan" ash. They sent a picture along and it didn't look a whole lot different in color from the mammoth materials coal I have. I also spoke with Jeddo coal company. They are reporting 10- 10.5% ash. They said the ash is white, which I can verify from the quarter ton I bought. It is very fine very white ash. They said they are pulling from the mammoth vein about 250 feet down. They are about 160 a ton. I forget the exact number he told me. I will be loading up on Jeddo this spring. I am extremely pleased with how it is burning. I let it go 14 hours yesterday with stove at 400 degrees. A quick shake and 2/3 of a 5 gallon bucket and I was good to go again.
- BlackBetty06
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Update: Back to burning mammoth coal. I burned the stove(not flue pipe) at roughly 550 degrees last night. After about 10 hours the front of the stove was out, had to do a lot of ash poking to clear the front. Added just over a 5 gallon bucket of coal to refill. Very disappointed to say the least. It looks like now that it's finally starting to feel more like winter instead of spring, I will have to do the stove 3 times a day. Which translates to about 2 1/2 five gallon buckets of coal a day
- LoschStoker
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LDPosse:
How is that D.S. Kozy King 100 furnace working?
How is that D.S. Kozy King 100 furnace working?
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Anyone have any recent reviews on Mammoth coal? May need an option for dry coal, Direnzos has been freezing by the time I get home
Thanks,
Joe
Thanks,
Joe
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i burned it already, i used to live near there. that was when they first started delling coal tho, like 2006ish
the problem i had was it was inconsistent.
there was also some rock in the coal, kept breaking shear pins on the efm.....i was burning buckwheat coal then too. i am sure they have a better breaker now or someone proceses it.
they didn't even have a scale a few years ago!
i had them deliver quite a few triaxles of stone to the place i used to live. never a weight, always a very full truck. the 2b modified has coal in it hehe.
the problem i had was it was inconsistent.
there was also some rock in the coal, kept breaking shear pins on the efm.....i was burning buckwheat coal then too. i am sure they have a better breaker now or someone proceses it.
they didn't even have a scale a few years ago!
i had them deliver quite a few triaxles of stone to the place i used to live. never a weight, always a very full truck. the 2b modified has coal in it hehe.
- freetown fred
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I'm sure things have changed in all the breakers since 2006. Ya don't go, you'll never know! That 2014 pix on prior page looked real good.
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yes much better, sorry i am sorry i forgot to type that part.......the coal is processed off site, someone posted about it a few years ago and i do remember getting one load there a few yrs ago when there was a localized rice coal shortage (it got stupid cold lol)freetown fred wrote: ↑Tue. Jan. 02, 2018 10:03 amI'm sure things have changed in all the breakers since 2006. Ya don't go, you'll never know! That 2014 pix on prior page looked real good.
i would still test the waters as with any new coal, kinda hard being out of the area tho. i usually test a new supplier with 800-1000 lbs, if i like it i go back.
- freetown fred
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Indeed L. That's the ONLY way in my book!
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Yeah, wish I was closer to test a small batch.
Only truly bad coal I ever got was early last year, bought a ton of nut from a local supplier (who I had used before with good results). Never before in my life have I had clinkers like that (or at all, really). Entire hand was blisters from shaking, and I’ve never had that happen since I switched to coal in ‘11. Grates would jam tight EVERY time I’d service. When I shut down to clean before switching to Direnzo, I pulled several baseball sized clinkers out of there .
Leary of anything different after that mess lol.
Joe
Only truly bad coal I ever got was early last year, bought a ton of nut from a local supplier (who I had used before with good results). Never before in my life have I had clinkers like that (or at all, really). Entire hand was blisters from shaking, and I’ve never had that happen since I switched to coal in ‘11. Grates would jam tight EVERY time I’d service. When I shut down to clean before switching to Direnzo, I pulled several baseball sized clinkers out of there .
Leary of anything different after that mess lol.
Joe