Cool Video About Bituminious Coal

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Post by DePippo79 » Sun. May. 07, 2017 7:04 pm

Long live coal. Enjoy.

Includes video of coal stokers in peoples homes.
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Post by StokerDon » Sun. May. 07, 2017 7:32 pm

There is a couple of nice shiny new conversion stokers in there. I couldn't read the name on them but one was probably an Iron Fireman. The other was the right color to be a Winkler but I don't think that was the name on it.

Interesting that "coal tar" was used to make everything from creosote to artificial flavoring!

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Post by lsayre » Sun. May. 07, 2017 8:08 pm

No respirators. Is the video from circa 1945 - 1950? Or does it go back even further than that?

Edit: It's from 1941. If I wasn't half blind, I would have seen it in the title right at the start...


 
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Post by DePippo79 » Sun. May. 07, 2017 9:22 pm

Thank you (Richard?) for moving it. I was not sure where to post it seeing how there's no Bituminous Coal history section and I didn't know if it should go in the regular Bituminous section. I too was amazed at all the by-products and the machinery used for mining and processing. The coal pier was pretty impressive.
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Post by CoalHeat » Sun. May. 07, 2017 9:49 pm

I enjoyed watching that, thanks for posting it.

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