Made the Move

zipdog · Post by **zipdog** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 12:36 pm

Finally moved over to coal this year. I have to say this, where the heck has this stuff been all my life? Talk about easier, this has wood beat any way you go. I am burning in an inside boiler and it works perfectly all the time. Plenty of fire in the morning to reload on, house warm and no fuss. If I added up the cost of chainsaw chains, fuel and oil , the tractor and splitter, all the hauling, splitting and stacking. I spend just as much to burn wood. I do have to drive a ways to get it but no big deal. Got my last load from city coal yard in Brazil Indiana for 70 bucks a ton, really nice people to deal with and they don't care if you have a truck or 5 gal buckets in the trunk of your car. They had no problem with an out of state check either and its hard to find places like that now a days.

mr1precision · Post by **mr1precision** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 12:43 pm

That's awesome! You sound like I did a year ago. It's hard to beat coal thats for sure.

:punk:

rockwood · Post by **rockwood** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 1:22 pm

Why'd you wait so long???

Just kidding, yeah wood is hard work. I went to help my brother inlaw get a load (truck and trailer) of wood up in the mountains a few months back and HOLY COW...that's hard work...Now that I'm in my 40's I just can't do that hard labor like I used to. By the end of the day we were BEAT.
A little bit of wood is ok but when you're talking 5-10 cords to get through winter

... takes too much work and time to do that.

dtzackus · Post by **dtzackus** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 1:24 pm

Best thing about coal is unlike wood you really only have to check on the stove maybe twice a day unlike the feeding of the wood stove every two to four hours....

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 1:57 pm

I burned wood for years. Cutting, splitting, stacking, moving 6 to 8 cord a year. Coal has wood beat in every way except one....coal makes way more ash, but, geepers, that's a small price to pay for nice even heat that you don't have to tend every 5 or 6 hours.

charlie · Post by **charlie** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 5:18 pm

I still put up a couple of cords for the winter, but I can't imagine being without coal! Congratulations!

KLook · Post by **KLook** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 5:22 pm

I would only burn wood again as a backup in a power outage and maybe for ambiance if I get a house with a fireplace. (Not likely)
Welcome to the coal world!!

Kevin

dtzackus · Post by **dtzackus** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 5:25 pm

Well I was lucky that my gibraltar can burn both coal and wood. I normally burn wood in the fall and early spring, since it isn't cold enough to get a coal fire going, nice to get a wood fire going and let it die out over night. For the rest of the fall and winter season, it is completely coal.

009to090 · Post by **009to090** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 5:27 pm

zipdog wrote:where the heck has this stuff been all my life? Talk about easier, this has wood beat any way you go. If I added up the cost of chainsaw chains, fuel and oil , the tractor and splitter, all the hauling, splitting and stacking. I spend just as much to burn wood.

I said the same thing a couple years ago

Way to go

BigBarney · Post by **BigBarney** » Wed. Dec. 02, 2009 6:30 pm

ZIPDOG;

Welcome to the DARK SIDE, the world of black rock coal burners.

BigBarney

Duengeon master · Post by **Duengeon master** » Thu. Dec. 03, 2009 7:31 pm

BigBarney wrote:ZIPDOG;

Welcome to the DARK SIDE, the world of black rock coal burners.

BigBarney

Should we teach him the secret handshake yet?

009to090 · Post by **009to090** » Thu. Dec. 03, 2009 7:56 pm

Duengeon master wrote:Should we teach him the secret handshake yet?

NOOOOOOOOO! He needs a minimum of 100 posts, and 6 new threads

Duengeon master · Post by **Duengeon master** » Thu. Dec. 03, 2009 8:13 pm

DVC500 at last wrote:
Duengeon master wrote:Should we teach him the secret handshake yet?
NOOOOOOOOO! He needs a minimum of 100 posts, and 6 new threads

I'm glad you told me!! I almost let it slip!

Paulie · Post by **Paulie** » Thu. Dec. 03, 2009 8:20 pm

Back to the Future, coal is the finest solid fuel. I keep a cord or two of wood around, for memories sake

zipdog · Post by **zipdog** » Fri. Dec. 04, 2009 7:56 am

I am headed back to the coal yard this morning. Not out yet but I would like to keep about a ton stored inside next to the boiler.
Burned wood for about 35 years and keeping enough stored out of the weather in case of a storm was always a problem. I even tried one of those stupid outdoor boilers for a while and let me tell you those things will work you to death and you still have to go out in all kinds of weather to tend them, what a joke.