Deep mined coal used in my Hitzer

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That is some shiny looking monster chunks ya got there Jack! Should be throwing some serious heat out of the Hitzer.

I want to see a pic of the stove that stuff is going in!

Jack hand breaks that stuff for something to do as well.

Guys been cracking my own coal 23 years .Dave Vigil 2 hauled this for me from the deep mine .About 4 tons there 4 percent white ash .Lots of Rainbow or Peacock coal in this load .Cole Berner helped load too .This coal is like glass you can shave with it .Jack

Den034071 wrote: ↑

Fri. Dec. 21, 2018 7:43 am

Guys been cracking my own coal 23 years .Dave Vigil 2 hauled this for me from the deep mine .About 4 tons there 4 percent white ash .Lots of Rainbow or Peacock coal in this load .Cole Berner helped load too .This coal is like glass you can shave with it .Jack

Forgive me for asking, I am not that familiar enough with coal to recognize the significance.
Why do you prefer such large chunks?
Satisfaction of breaking it up yourself?
Do you get it for less cost this way?
Is it a particular quality to be had from the deep mine that it is not offered broken up smaller?

I have wondered does anthracite coal that gets sold to industry come from different mines than what it is mined and sold for residential use? I had the impression mines sell to whomever, private or commercial.

I'd go back to burning wood first, it's free. I switched to coal to save work.

Gardener sent you a P M . jack

I rank cracking coal right up there with buying log length firewood.

That is some serious look'in coal there Jack!

Den034071 wrote: ↑

Fri. Dec. 21, 2018 7:43 am

This coal is like glass you can shave with it

That is the second time in 2 weeks I have heard that about how hard the coal is. It has caused me to run some drastically different settings on my Axeman.

-Don

Many think shoveling coal in and ashes out is too much work when all they need to do is set the wall thermostat.

Some spend big bucks to join a health club to get the exercise that Jack gets.

Some people think I'm crazy for wanting to cook on a 116 year old range 9 months of the year.

Jack gets to pick coal we can only dream about.

To each his own.

Paul

Den034071 wrote: ↑

Fri. Dec. 21, 2018 9:08 am

Gardener sent you a P M . jack

Dang, I was interested in the answers to those questions myself...

Sunny Boy wrote: ↑

Fri. Dec. 21, 2018 10:15 am

Many think shoveling coal in and ashes out is too much work when all they need to do is set the wall thermostat.

Some spend big bucks to join a health club to get the exercise that Jack gets.

Some people think I'm crazy for wanting to cook on a 116 year old range 9 months of the year.

Jack gets to pick coal we can only dream about.

To each his own.

Paul

Isn't that the truth! People get higher educations to find a soft cushy higher paying job (a big maybe!). They commute 1+ hours one way and need to operate a good vehicle (more $s). They invest at least 10 hours of their day - 11 prolly if you count getting ready - to that job. Hire someone to do house and yard work. Then spend more bucks and time at the gym.

I understand some of this but there's a higher level of personal satisfaction for me in doing hard work on projects I can see and use. Trouble is, the body is getting older. But it's all good, and just like Mississipi Fred McDowell said: Ya gotta move, ya gotta move, ...
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Hi Jack,
You said you got a pile of coal....sure is big 4 ton.
What a fine pile of coal you have.... By the looks of it you're going to be
cracking away at that for some time to come... Is that a year's worth ?
Hope it does not sink in the lawn with all the unwelcome rain we have had this year.

I know how therapeutic it can be to sit there and chisel away at such a project
for good mental therapy.

I remember as a kid my frustrated Father chasing us around to get the 6 acres of grass cut at the house on the lawn tractors... Probably the least favorable job a 13 year old wants to do. Now years later I really enjoy cutting the grass riding in endless circles, such great mental therapy.

I envy your great accomplishment of finding a task that treats the mind to enjoyable healthier levels. Move over... Let me grab my 5 gallon buckets and I'll be up soon to help chisle that pile of black rocks down to more manageable sizes !!
Ken

take a real good look at that mug, jack is also still messing around on roofs and doing masonry too.

not to many of his age are doing any of it.