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Post by coalnewbie » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 11:30 am

See below the monster that my taxes help create making pellets from grass and hay. in 2011 lots of fat liberal girls were running around the Warwick expo proclaiming how we can make pellets from grass. Why am I bitter? Well now Orange County claims they are in financial trouble. So in 2012 this monster did nothing and now it is parked in the rain down the road, rusting out. Why no pellets? Well the grass stuff burns like damp toilet paper and stinks. The bimbos have returned home to sexting on their IPhones and we are stuck with the bill (only girls were manning the booth and making the pellets that no one wants). Can anybody think of a use for this thing.

I wanted to take this photo with me in the foreground with my coal T shirt but Shelley told me to grow up. Of course, if the machine was used to make coal pellets the stoops would have blocked the road and everybody would have asked to see the permits for road travel.

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Post by franco b » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 12:27 pm

Quite a difference from the carnival atmosphere of the first posts you made about this.

Reality is hell.

 
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Post by Sting » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 12:40 pm

Feed waste paper into it and make something that you can burn as a stand alone fuel or mix in and extend the coal your burning!

 
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Post by scalabro » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 1:08 pm

I wonder how many fossil fuel BTU's the greenies have to use to make a ton of these pellets.

Does it take more than 24,000,000 BTU's of fossil fuel to mine 2000 lbs of anthracite?

 
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Post by warminmn » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 1:09 pm

If they ever make pot legal in your state you'll be set up quickly for a pot pellet operation :)

Other than that I don't know what you'd do with that contraption

 
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Post by scalabro » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 1:24 pm

warminmn wrote:If they ever make pot legal in your state you'll be set up quickly for a pot pellet operation :)

Other than that I don't know what you'd do with that contraption
That's funny!

Think of the money you could make to buy more stoves CN :woot:

Pretty soon NY will follow suit with Colorado, that might be an idea, lol!

 
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Post by coaledsweat » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 4:04 pm

Saw a video a short time ago of a landscaper/lawn mower guy that runs his mowers on grass clippings.


 
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Post by Rick 386 » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 4:55 pm

Way back in the day after I had some grass, I HAD NO ENERGY !!!!!!!

All I wanted to do was sit back with some headphones on and listen to some Peter Frampton or Jethro Tull...........

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Post by crazy4coal » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 6:31 pm

Hey CN, You a horse farmer, buy it and run some horse dung in it.... Poop pellets. "Bring in the smell of country!" :mrgreen:

 
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Post by Sting » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 7:49 pm

Rick 386 wrote:Way back in the day after I had some grass, I HAD NO ENERGY !!!!!!!

All I wanted to do was sit back with some headphones on and listen to some Peter Frampton or Jethro Tull...........

Rick
RUSH

 
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Post by Rick 386 » Thu. Oct. 23, 2014 11:25 pm

OK Sting, I'll go with some early Rush.

No matter what music it was, it had to have the sound travel from side to side in the headphones.

Always gave me a good time. Damn I could spark one up about now if I had some. But I don't know if the fingers can still roll them or not. Probably would need to use a pipe.

Anyone remember the old "power hitter" ?? :smoke: :smoke:

Rick

 
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Post by carlherrnstein » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 4:28 pm

I wonder if it could make wood pellets? I think it takes heat to fuse sawdust into pellets.

I bet the best use for it would be to make animal feed.

 
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Post by Ed.A » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 6:32 pm

Rick 386 wrote:OK Sting, I'll go with some early Rush.

No matter what music it was, it had to have the sound travel from side to side in the headphones.

Always gave me a good time. Damn I could spark one up about now if I had some. But I don't know if the fingers can still roll them or not. Probably would need to use a pipe.

Anyone remember the old "power hitter" ?? :smoke: :smoke:
Rick
Of course, in tech school machine shop kids would use a bunch of oil to create a smoke shield and then do hits without getting snagged. I also saw a senior "not" graduate with his class after getting busted making a Bowl in shop, a week before Graduation :(

Interesting enough my ruse that the ornate brass cabinet handles I was known to make arose no suspicion .
:D

 
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Post by carlherrnstein » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 6:47 pm

When I was in trade school I got caught drilling a 1/4" rod to make a stem and I said it was a cable guide for a throttle. It worked but, it was the last time I made a cable guide.

 
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Post by McGiever » Sat. Oct. 25, 2014 9:31 pm

carlherrnstein wrote:I wonder if it could make wood pellets? I think it takes heat to fuse sawdust into pellets.

I bet the best use for it would be to make animal feed.
The heat necessary is self generated by the machine action and the wood fibers themselves being pressed.

This is coal dust to pellets




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