10 years on the Coal Forum

 
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Rob R.
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Post by Rob R. » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 4:09 pm

Today marks 10 years since I joined the online coal burning community. A few thoughts:

In the 10 years I have been burning coal, the price has remained relatively constant, but the availability in my area is much better. I hope that trend continues. I probably would have never attempted a boiler install without some of the contacts and information from this site. There is a TON of good information on this forum, and it will continue to help people for a long time.

It also seems like the make-up of the active posters on the forum has changed. I do not have hard data to support it, but 10 years ago it seemed like everyone signing up was just looking for a way to avoid $4 heating oil. There was as core group of people that had a lot of experience, and many of them were from the coal region. Now it seems that a lot of the older guys are no longer active members, and there are a lot of new people from many different locations. Also seems like there is a lot more interest in antique stoves than there used to be.


 
lincolnmania
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Location: Birdsboro PA.
Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 350
Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: reading allegheny stoker
Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: alaska kodiak stoker 1986. 1987 triburner, 1987 crane diamond
Coal Size/Type: rice

Post by lincolnmania » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 4:29 pm

i think i joined about ten years ago also.......this forum and it's people have been a great help.

 
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Turbogeno
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Location: Lake George, NY
Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL Pocono
Hand Fed Coal Stove: VC Vigilant II at home and a military surplus tent heater at camp
Coal Size/Type: Anthracite, Rice and Nut
Other Heating: Oil hot water baseboard and DHW

Post by Turbogeno » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 4:33 pm

Congrats! Happy anniversary. Staying warm with without breaking our backs is the best New Years resolution I've ever had. It's 72 in the house, I have 15 minutes of work to do, ~6-8 $ to spend and I'm good to go for 18 hours. It's 5° now and a night time low of negative teens expected. As stated above, my learning curve was short with the help of the forum members.

 
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Rob R.
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Post by Rob R. » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 4:36 pm

lincolnmania wrote:
Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 4:29 pm
i think i joined about ten years ago also.......this forum and it's people have been a great help.
You are coming up on 11 years in January. If you go into your profile it says when you joined.

 
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freetown fred
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Post by freetown fred » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 4:42 pm

Congrats Rob-- :) Damn, I'll have 8 yrs in 3 days!! This FORUM sure made short work of that learnin curve! Seen lots of people come & go.
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WNY
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Location: Cuba, NY
Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Keystoker 90K, Leisure Line Hyfire I
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Post by WNY » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 4:51 pm

Wow, i joined November 14th, 2005! Can't believe it's been that long.

 
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coaledsweat
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Post by coaledsweat » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 5:19 pm

Time really flies when you're having fun! :D


 
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Baseburners & Antiques: Magic Stewart 16, times 2!
Coal Size/Type: Lots of buck
Other Heating: Slant Fin electric boiler backup

Post by Scottscoaled » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 6:05 pm

Rob, you joined 11 days before me. You stink. Hahaha

 
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michaelanthony
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Location: millinocket,me.
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Vigilant 2310, gold marc box stove
Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Gold Marc Independence
Baseburners & Antiques: Home Sparkle 12
Coal Size/Type: 'nut
Other Heating: Fujitsu mini split, FHA oil furnace

Post by michaelanthony » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 6:20 pm

freetown fred wrote:
Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 4:42 pm
Congrats Rob-- :) Damn, I'll have 8 yrs in 3 days!! This FORUM sure made short work of that learnin curve! Seen lots of people come & go.
Must be the new math Fred, I've been here 9 yrs and a month and you were an old timer then! :baby:

 
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Post by crazy4coal » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 6:27 pm

:clap: I'll be here 10 years in Feb. I've been selling coal almost ten years, Time does fly when your having fun and I have met some real fine people!

 
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Richard S.
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Post by Richard S. » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 6:40 pm

I throw thsee up occasionally, Here is some statistics in case anyone is interested.

Number of posts: 623491*
Posts per day: 128.93
Number of topics: 36441**
Topics per day: 7.54
Number of users: 8664***
Users per day: 1.79
Number of attachments: 67807
Attachments per day: 14.02
Board started: Fri. Oct. 01, 2004 8:35 pm
Database size: 783.43 MiB****
Size of posted attachments: 17.68 GiB

*Total posts is actually 250K more but that would include classifieds, spam etc.

**Total topics is actually 10K more, same as above and there was about 1500 that were accidentally deleted about 10+years ago. That was before I had the fail safe backups in place and can't happen now.

***There was 27K members and bots that have registered over the years, I could not even begin to guess how many there would be had I not implemented various things to block registrations. The displayed figure is fairly accurate for people that have actually participated and includes anyone with one post. Spam accounts are deleted after one year and any account with 0 posts and no activity in one year is also deleted.

****That is uncompressed and the bulk of that is from the posts table, about 450MB for the posts table which is quite a bit for plain text. This figure would have dropped significantly from the last time I posted any stats because the search feature no longer directly uses the database.

 
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Location: Birdsboro PA.
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Hot Air Coal Stoker Furnace: reading allegheny stoker
Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: alaska kodiak stoker 1986. 1987 triburner, 1987 crane diamond
Coal Size/Type: rice

Post by lincolnmania » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 7:05 pm

Rob R. wrote:
Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 4:36 pm
You are coming up on 11 years in January. If you go into your profile it says when you joined.
oh yea we are coming up on 2018 :oops:

 
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freetown fred
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Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut

Post by freetown fred » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 7:42 pm

OUCH, ya young woodpecker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: Been doin coal a little over 10 yrs MA. Bought the HITZER around Aug. 2009--screwed around with a few antiques before that.
michaelanthony wrote:
Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 6:20 pm
Must be the new math Fred, I've been here 9 yrs and a month and you were an old timer then! :baby:

 
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Sunny Boy
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Location: Central NY
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Anthracite Industrial, domestic hot water heater
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood range 208, # 6 base heater, 2 Modern Oak 118.
Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
Other Heating: Oil &electric plenum furnace

Post by Sunny Boy » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 8:00 pm

On the old site, last time I checked the member posting stats, Fred held the record for the most total posts by quite a large margin.

At four years I'm more of a newbie, but, I beat him out for highest daily average. Must be a CNY thing. :lol:

Can't find those stats on this new site.

Paul

 
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freetown fred
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Post by freetown fred » Thu. Dec. 28, 2017 8:38 pm

Just remember Paul, I was laid up/ homebound for over a year with WAY to many gut surgeries--which might I add, you guys got me through that!! :)--anyway, posts sure do add up even when you're not havin that much fun. :)----Go to your profile Paul--numbers are there. You have 13,260
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