Lehigh Coal
- Dakotaguy
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- Posts: 134
- Joined: Sun. Nov. 15, 2015 8:33 pm
- Location: Summit hill pa
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Efm 520 highboy
- Coal Size/Type: Lots of rice from Lehigh
- Other Heating: Pops 2010 df 520 stoker
Hello all was at Lehigh today for 2 ton of rice there coal was awesome clean and yes they let you bucket load if needed there was a fellow coal burner filling his buckets with nut but only on Saturday
Hope this helps anyone that don't have a bin or just needs some extra
Hope this helps anyone that don't have a bin or just needs some extra
- coal stoker
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- Posts: 355
- Joined: Tue. Feb. 17, 2015 5:07 pm
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1986 EFM DF520
- Coal Size/Type: Rice/Anthracite
- Other Heating: oil fired boiler
Got 10 ton from Lehigh last Oct.
Had absolutely no problems all year, and still going.
Rice was evenly sized and burned with no issues.
Love it
CS
Had absolutely no problems all year, and still going.
Rice was evenly sized and burned with no issues.
Love it
CS
- buffalo bob
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- Posts: 961
- Joined: Tue. Feb. 07, 2012 12:41 pm
- Location: scpa. bedford co. buffalo mills
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: hitzer 354 and a 254
- Coal Size/Type: anthracite nut
getting a tri axel load tomorrow 5/31 135.00 ton plus 25.00 per ton del. not bad..as here coal yard is 235.00 ton for dirty reading picked up...
- buffalo bob
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- Posts: 961
- Joined: Tue. Feb. 07, 2012 12:41 pm
- Location: scpa. bedford co. buffalo mills
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: hitzer 354 and a 254
- Coal Size/Type: anthracite nut
got my coal all set for the next five years, nicest coal I have seen, clean sized properly, price was real good too...
- StokerDon
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- Posts: 7496
- Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 11:17 am
- Location: PA, Southern York County!
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
That works out to $160 a ton, same price as if you drove all the way to Lehigh and hauled it back yourself, paying for the fuel and your time. Nice!buffalo bob wrote:getting a tri axel load tomorrow 5/31 135.00 ton plus 25.00 per ton del. not bad..as here coal yard is 235.00 ton for dirty reading picked up...
Five years? How many ton did you get?
-Don
- coaledsweat
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- Joined: Fri. Oct. 27, 2006 2:05 pm
- Location: Guilford, Connecticut
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Axeman Anderson 260M
- Coal Size/Type: Pea
IIRC, The limit is about 28 ton in that configuration.
- buffalo bob
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- Posts: 961
- Joined: Tue. Feb. 07, 2012 12:41 pm
- Location: scpa. bedford co. buffalo mills
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: hitzer 354 and a 254
- Coal Size/Type: anthracite nut
just short of 24 ton nice stuff...
- BunkerdCaddis
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- Posts: 708
- Joined: Sun. Jan. 18, 2015 10:26 am
- Location: SW Lancaster County
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Bairmatic-Van Wert
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Van Wert VW85H
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Saey Hanover II working when I feel the desire, Waterford 105 out on vacation, Surdiac Gotha hiding somewhere
- Coal Size/Type: pea/nut/rice/stove-anthracite, nut/stove bit when I feel the urge
- Other Heating: oil fired hydronic
That's a dang light tare weight on a triaxle.coaledsweat wrote:IIRC, The limit is about 28 ton in that configuration.