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Hello a friend of a friend gave me this interesting bag from Lehigh when Bethlehem steel operated it I never new they made these

Dak they had a briquette bagging plant in Lansford old L C N in 1930s I believe . jack

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Cool find, Ive never seen anything like that

My Dad hauled those into NYC back in the 50's. TT dump trailer for 2 weeks. He said that the rich people liked them.

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Tue. Feb. 18, 2020 4:13 pm

My Dad hauled those into NYC back in the 50's. TT dump trailer for 2 weeks. He said that the rich people liked them.

Id like to see what they look like. IS it just pieces of coal? or were they compressed coal dust kind of like charcoal?

They looked much like Kingsford charcoal for your grill. Maybe a little bigger in size. Made from coal dust compressed.

Probably used coal that was otherwise waste or tough to market. Kind of like Pringles potato chips, made from pieces of broken chips that would otherwise be waste.

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Say it ain't so Rob??????????????????????? LOL

I came across a pallet of compressed coal logs quite a few years ago. Actual dimensions are a little foggy but they were uniform 4 or 5 inch diam cylinders about 18" long wrapped in some kind of plastic. There was no company info on the plastic or pallet. A friend of mine is a chimney sweep and found them at a customers house, they wanted to get rid of them.

I used them in the hand fed on top of a bed of nut coal or in with some firewood. They burned OK, added BTU's to the house and were FREE!

Somewhere in my History Stuff the company had a bagging Plant in LansfordWhere They Bagged all Sizes . 50 pound bags Were Put Into Rail Cars Not Just Brikets were bagged .It was A Dry Plants .Dusty As Hell .Ill try To Find the article .jack