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For warmth, some households still burn coal ( Durango, Colorado )
Durango Herald ^
| March 10, 2018
| Jonathan Romeo
Posted on 03/20/2018 5:28:25 PM PDT by george76
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Thats why natural gas never caught on. It is just too inconvenient. I'm all for coal, but natural gas is the livin' end.
The people that had this house before me--three different families--had a gas line running to the house...but had it hooked up ONLY to the stove and oven.
The rest of the joint was fabulously expensive electric heat, suppled by the local "co-op," who cooperated lavishly only with their own executives.
I couldn't put a gas furnace in fast enough, and also a 17K back-up generator in a small building outside. Easy, clean, and sooo cheap.
To: House Atreides
They’re called clinkers. I remember my dad taking them out of the furnace. Memories.
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:20:07 PM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
...coal chute and a concrete coal bunker in the basement. We have one here in NJ adjacent to the Oil Tank in a "Cape Cod" House.
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:24:18 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Fightin Whitey
We just bought a house in an area with a lot of trees and snow. We may not be there for the entire winter so I’m looking at a backup generator in that size range. What did you put in?
To: george76
But isn’t coal made out of...(almost faints)... c...carbon? It’s carbon more deadly to life on this planet than plutonium?
To: JPJones
I grew up in 60s-70s and we burned coal through to early 1980s. We got a truck load in the coal bin every fall and ran a wood/coal burner stove all fall/winter. We broke up coal and carried several buckets in each evening before dark. If a snow was coming Dad would get a big cardboard box and place on the front porch and we had to fill it up as to have dry coal and then the four or five coal buckets.
My great grandmother had a wood fired cook stove into the 1980s as well next door so by age five we were had learned to split kindling and had to keep her wood bin full as well. God I miss the homemade popcorn balls she made at Halloween on that stove.
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:27:38 PM PDT
by
sarge83
To: Bobalu
We had a coal bin, separated from the furnace by a wall. That old furnace was a huge monster with arms that rose to the ceiling of the basement. It had a hopper and an auger to load and convey the coal into the furnace. It smoked a lot. I didn’t like the smell very much.
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:28:48 PM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: george76
One of my memories is that during WWII four of us neighborhood 8-9 year old kids would latch on to the side of a slowly moving Boston & Maine RR coal train, ride it for about 4-5 miles to a point where it would typically start picking up speed and jump off. Then we would start walking back down the tracks picking up spilled coal to be burned, helping to keeping our houses warm...
One thing we didn't need in addition to our perpetually empty stomachs would have been a cold house...
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:29:23 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: george76
One of my memories is that during WWII four of us neighborhood 8-9 year old kids would latch on to the side of a slowly moving Boston & Maine RR coal train, ride it for about 4-5 miles to a point where it would typically start picking up speed and jump off. Then we would start walking back down the tracks picking up spilled coal to be burned, helping to keeping our houses warm...
One thing we didn't need in addition to our perpetually empty stomachs would have been a cold house...
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:29:23 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: george76
One of my memories is that during WWII four of us neighborhood 8-9 year old kids would latch on to the side of a slowly moving Boston & Maine RR coal train, ride it for about 4-5 miles to a point where it would typically start picking up speed and jump off. Then we would start walking back down the tracks picking up spilled coal to be burned, helping to keeping our houses warm...
One thing we didn't need in addition to our perpetually empty stomachs would have been a cold house...
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:29:23 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: george76
I could stoke a coal furnace when I was 10 years old——and I still remember every step in the process.
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:31:36 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: george76
My family used to spend weekends in a cabin in the mountains of south central PA when I was a kid. It got cold at night, even in summer. There was an old strip mine nearby - we would gather up a bucket of coal and use it along with wood in the fireplace. Kept us nice and warm and lasted all night.
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:32:11 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: Bobalu
we moved into a house when I was about 3 but I distinctly remember the coal chute....it was a little special room to we kids...
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:35:14 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: House Atreides
When I was in tech school at Chanute AFB, IL in the fifties, our barracks used coal burning furnaces. I remember they would plug up and fill the place up with smoke. I was stationed twice at that base and did not enjoy either time.
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:35:38 PM PDT
by
saminfl
To: MayflowerMadam
My house in NYS had coal also, as a kid I would love watching the coal dump truck, dumping its load down the chute in our driveway. It went into a large concrete coal room, and every night after dinner, my father would go down and shovel coal into a bucket and load the hopper.
To: SuperLuminal
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posted on
03/20/2018 6:43:43 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: Mark was here
Do a search and see if there are any blacksmiths around you. They might know.
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03/20/2018 7:20:29 PM PDT
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I’d occasionally see small bits of coal around what used to be the chute in the cellars of old houses back in the 90’s when I was doing inspections.
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posted on
03/20/2018 7:28:00 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
To: MayflowerMadam
“My brother went to get his violin to put in the fire.”
LOL!! Looks like he and your parents disagreed strongly about violin lessons they’d imposed on him by brute force and it was their violin far more than his. From my own experience I know parents can sometimes be unpleasant tyrants and saying “up yours” to them and getting away with it can be one of life’s most satisfying moments. We’ve not all spent our lives living on Walton’s Mountain or believing “Father knows best.”
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