Wood=Coal

I usually get a load of red oak logs that weighs 14-15 tons wet wood. I burn prolly 10-14 ton of it depending on how bad the winter is. Can anyone tell me how that will compare to Bit lump coal in the amount of coal I need?

Wow.. that is some heavy duty stuff!!

What do u mean heavy duty? I made a few bins to store it. I have 2 ton so far

Only a pure guess here, but if it were me I would go into the first 'coal' heating season with 7 tons of that lump coal on hand.

7 ton would only be $525. I always paid around $500-550 for my logs every year. So that will be the same other then I have to drive 25 minutes to get the coal myself. It'll be hard to store that much coal in my basement. I'd have to store some outside.

Jared43758 wrote:7 ton would only be $525. I always paid around $500-550 for my logs every year. So that will be the same other then I have to drive 25 minutes to get the coal myself. It'll be hard to store that much coal in my basement. I'd have to store some outside.

The hope would be that after the first season you would still have 1 or 2 tons remaining.

Yea that would be nice. Not only would I not have to do all the sawing and splitting and stacking and all the other benifits I would save some money

This is a quote from a previous post of mine.
"The lady at oxford told me once that their coal runs around 12,500 BTU/lb. As a comparison white oak has about 6,190 BTU/lb.

As far a ash goes, a volume or weight comparison isn't really fair because there is so much more heat in coal. In my opinion a BTU comparison is more realistic.

Here is a example of my thinking these numbers are just to show a point. If you burn 100lbs of wood per day to keep your house 70*F and get 1.5lbs of ash. If you were burning coal might burn 60lbs of coal to keep your house at 70*F and get 6.6lbs of ash. There is more ash in coal however there is also more heat."

Also the forum has a fuel comparison calculator https://coalpail.com/fuel-comparison-calculator-home-heating

I think you should buy about 5 ton and get more if you start running out.

I remember that post u made

Soo Lee. What does heavy duty stuff mean?

Jared43758 wrote:Soo Lee. What does heavy duty stuff mean?

Oh sorry, I was impressed with the size of those chunks. Pretty massive..

You think that's massive?

Compared to what most Folk's are burning,Anthracite-Wise,Yep! Did you have to hand-pick those to get what you needed?

Compared to the anthracite that I burn lol.

Member 'Berlin' often says (as I understand it) to burn the largest chunks of bit coal that you can comfortably get into the stove/boiler. Hopefully he will jump in to correct me or to confirm this interpretation of his wisdom.