No TSC in my area carries coal, and my store manager said she tried it for years to no avail--till I told her that a TSC 30 miles away carries it for blacksmiths there. She called him and found it was quite easy to get one bag or a pallet, so she has supplied me ever since. (I agreed to buy up remainders at the end of season so her buying office would not gripe about it.) She puts it out so other people can see they have it--they sell a few that way. Here, it costs more than natural gas, but far less than electric or propane, so people in the country around here ought to consider it. But home wood stoves made in the last 40 years are not made for coal. People can buy those made for sheds or barns and burn coal in them, but I doubt they are the best stoves. I think most people around here that buy wood or coal stoves look for the cheapest thing they can find (or old used ones for nothing).Vonda wrote: ↑Sat. Feb. 29, 2020 8:48 amHi there, i thought i had responded to this. Clearly, i didnt.
I use TSC. I cant find any place else that is affordable.
It appears no one believes people burn coal in the south. Most places have bituminous coal for $17 a bag for welders.
You are lucky in Alabama because Alabama uses Chicago's distribution center and coal is on the product list. Georgia use Macon's distribution center, it doesn't have coal on its list. I use to travel to Alabama to get coal until a TSC store manager took pity on me. Luckily, several welders in the area was asking for coal as well.
If you hear of a place that sells coal let me know.
I suspect that if your TSC warehouse does not stock it, your store could still special order a pallet out of their other warehouses. I live by the Mississippi River, yet I pay no more than customers in coal country, PA, because warehouse shipments come every week regardless, so there is no shipping cost added as there is with FOB shipments from outside suppliers.
