Popular Post Joseph Cummings Posted December 6 Popular Post Share Posted December 6 (edited) Old video about Anthracite coal mining, Breakers, loading facilities, equipment, lots of cool old stuff Edited December 6 by Joseph Cummings 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 6 Share Posted December 6 thanks for that,,,god lovem,,,,reminds me of hand rolling cigarettes and bullshitten about the old days with an old friend of mine,,,,years ago,,and yes this guy was a lot older than me,,,he left us around 20 tears ago,,bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post davehummell Posted December 6 Popular Post Share Posted December 6 Back in the early 73's I worked on Cat equipment at about most of the strip mines up Hazelton way. I am shocked at the price of a ton of coal today compared back then. Last job I worked at it was an old mine site near Nanticoke that many years before my uncle worked at the same mine still had the shaft ventilation fan still intact in one of the buildings. A hunting buddy of my father and I was in the Knox mine disaster there is a picture of him crawling out a vent shaft He said it was the greatest feeling when he got out in the sun light 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
67RModel Posted December 6 Share Posted December 6 I still burn anthracite for heat. Nothing like it in the world. Bulk is $375/ton around here now. Bagged is over $400. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brocky Posted December 6 Popular Post Share Posted December 6 My parents burned anthracite until the mid 60's when natural gas came thru.. Many of the Ag business truckers, with grain body straight trucks, in Upstate New York used to haul hay to the NYC area horse race facilities and return home by way of the Scranton PA area with a load of hard coal and deliver it to our houses. 3 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted December 7 Author Share Posted December 7 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 Couple of us are still haul'n coal. (n I can tell ya it wasn't a lotta fun Friday) 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted December 7 Author Share Posted December 7 (edited) 7 hours ago, Mark T said: Couple of us are still haul'n coal. (n I can tell ya it wasn't a lotta fun Friday) I've got two EFM boilers here one an older round door, and one a dual fuel. Only really running one now. I haven't bought any this year. I've got to take a ride over to the breaker and see how much it is. Probably something crazy Edited December 7 by Joseph Cummings Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tjc transport Posted December 7 Popular Post Share Posted December 7 growing up on the farm way way way way back a long long long time ago, we had a trifuel boiler down in the basement. could burn coal, wood, or fuel oil. since we had plenty of woods, we usually burned wood in it. coal when we could find it cheap enough.. coal would last almost twice as long as wood, but we had to pay for it. the 500 gallon oil tank lasted over 10 years because it would only burn oil if the fire was not stoked. and i would get my butt kicked if the fire went out. so every morning before breakfast it was fill the firebox and again every night before supper. 4 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 1 hour ago, Joseph Cummings said: I've got two EFM boilers here one an older round door, and one a dual fuel. Only really running one now. I haven't bought any this year. I've got to take a ride over to the breaker and see how much it is. Probably something crazy Depends where you go, and what you're looking for. Anywhere between $250.00 and $300.00 a ton (or close to that) Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 I think we had coal in our first house I don’t remember. I was kind of really too small to remember but I remember my dad opening a door. I’m a furnace big flames in there and he was doing something with it Georgetown, Massachusetts not sure I was only four when we moved Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeH Posted December 8 Share Posted December 8 On 12/6/2024 at 11:42 AM, 67RModel said: I still burn anthracite for heat. Nothing like it in the world. Bulk is $375/ton around here now. Bagged is over $400. I burn coal too, I believe Keystone Anthracite loaded out of South Tamaqua was $325/ton for chestnut, but I pick it up myself. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehummell Posted December 8 Share Posted December 8 When I was about 14 years old I got a job cleaning a large clothing material shop and until I graduated high school I took care of the place and it had a large stoker Furness but it had a hopper for the coal and no worm to feed the coal to the unit so I shoveled tons and tons of coal and carried garbage cans full of ashes out to the back of the store added a bit of grass out there so I had more grass to mow I swore I would freeze before I would have coal heat. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted December 8 Share Posted December 8 Our 2 room grade school also had a gravity feed hot air coal stove in the cellar. 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563486 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 11 Share Posted December 11 i was surprised to hear so many people are still using it as well as oil furnaces wow Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted December 11 Share Posted December 11 Just an FYI Bob Cool guys still haul coal ....just say'n. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted December 11 Share Posted December 11 2 hours ago, mowerman said: i was surprised to hear so many people are still using it as well as oil furnaces wow Bob, for me that was 55 years ago. we stopped using coal and firewood around 1970 and went to oil, as the firewood was household income when sold. we were getting $25-$30 for a cord of wood. and burning between 7 and 8 cord a year. compared to under $1 per gallon for home heating oil, where a 500 gallon tank would last close to 2 years running straight on oil. 2 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 Plus feeding the stove … big enough pain in the ass feeding my pellet stove and cleaning it every couple days but we like it a lot better than the propane furnace that we usually don’t use because it is very loud … bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeH Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 My house (1790's stone farmhouse) has a Buderus boiler my dad put in in the 1980's that has 2 sets of doors, one for oil and one for coal. It burns about 1,500 gallons a year to run on oil, or I can get away with about 250 gallons for the off-season and 6 tons of coal for the heating season. The coal is a lot of work, but as a dad of little kids I'm of the opinion that growing up with some more labor intensive chores and maintenance is healthier than the cushy alternative of no responsibilities til they're 30. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeH Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 If I put in a new heater I could probably get away with 750 gallons of oil for the year, but I lose the opportunity to harden my kids a little bit and provide them with experiences few other kids get. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 Look at that beautiful rice coal. Drip'n out overnight. Good times 🤗 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
67RModel Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 Maybe the best thing about coal is PA doesn't collect tax on it for home heating use. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 Wow, that’s terrific Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted December 12 Author Share Posted December 12 A whole lot of it goes to EAF (electric arc furnace) steelmaking. They blow it in to produce carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide helps the slag to float to the top of the heat There are 3 large deposits of anthracite in the world. Donots Basin in The Ukraine, North Korea, and NE Pennsylvania. NEPA is currently the only reliable supply. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
67RModel Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 Yes home heating use is now an almost minuscule percentage of anthracite usage. Mostly all goes to coking and metallurgical uses. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74832-anthracite-heritage-coal-a-thon-1977/#findComment-563849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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