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Post by Jolly on Mar 24, 2023 17:19:49 GMT
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Post by daw on Mar 24, 2023 17:34:13 GMT
Lighter pieces , yes. But that chainsaw does not get lighter cutting so many rounds!
I cut wood for 45 years. As well as split it.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Mar 24, 2023 22:15:31 GMT
Wouldn't work for our fireplace insert unless we wanted to feed it every hour of so. I can get 18" logs in there usually two at a time, and they'll burn for several hours. Small pieces just burn too fast for me.
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Post by blackfeather on Apr 11, 2023 22:59:36 GMT
Same here, they would burn too fast. The slowest burning are usually round chunks, and fat limb wood. you want them to last as much of the night as possible. Many times I'll get up in the morning to hot coals and can throw more wood on and get the fire going again. You can't do that with coal, if it gets too low you can't generate enough heat to reignite new coal dumped on. Coal required that I got up between 3 and 4 to keep it going till morning. Wood is also easier to start, you have to use a wood fire to start coal. The one benefit of coal is it throws a steady hot heat, it doesn't wax and wane like wood.
We are told that Biomass is cleaner to burn, Biomass is plant based fuels. I'd like to point out that coal is also a plant based fuel. Prehistoric plants died and fell into the swamp where they rotted and compressed and became coal over time. So In my mind Coal is also a biomass and therefore safe to burn. (I'd drive an environmentalist crazy with that argument.)
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Post by joebill on Apr 21, 2023 22:54:16 GMT
You can go into a coal mine and find an exact replica of a tree trunk, bark, knots and all that fell out of the overhead into the shaft. NO question it is plant based.
There are many kinds of coal that deliver all levels of pollutants, right down to very, very little, and the USA has some of the cleanest coal on the planet that has been ruled off limits to mining by ignorant federals and their lackeys.
Pure grade Metalurgical coal and blacksmith coal both burn very clean, especially in huge highly controlled fires like power plants and smelters, and scrubbers keep getting better and better.
NO question in my mind we will be returning to coal when the fantasies die down and it starts getting chilly inside.....Joe
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Post by paisley2 on Apr 22, 2023 0:30:37 GMT
I love getting free coal on the beach. Had a marker on the beach from a super high tide that dumped a lump of coal the size of VW bug. A few years later a tide finally took it back to the water.
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Post by joebill on Apr 23, 2023 3:24:09 GMT
It don't weigh much...... I hauled a load about 400 miles to run the forge with but made a mistake where I piled it. Monsoons washed most of it away and out into the desert. WE think of it like it is a rock and very heavy, but not so much..... "Does coal have a low specific gravity? Coal has relatively low density or specific gravity (1.2 to 1.5) compared to other rocks such as shale (2.4 to 2.8) or minerals such as pyrite (4.9 to 5.2).Jan 5, 2023" I guess that means when we finally go back to driving steam powered cars, we can haul a LOT of fuel in the trunk  ....Joe |
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 23, 2023 11:27:29 GMT
It don't weigh much...... I hauled a load about 400 miles to run the forge with but made a mistake where I piled it. Monsoons washed most of it away and out into the desert. WE think of it like it is a rock and very heavy, but not so much..... "Does coal have a low specific gravity? Coal has relatively low density or specific gravity (1.2 to 1.5) compared to other rocks such as shale (2.4 to 2.8) or minerals such as pyrite (4.9 to 5.2).Jan 5, 2023" I guess that means when we finally go back to driving steam powered cars, we can haul a LOT of fuel in the trunk ....Joe
Nah, it just means when you go over to your neighbor's cave to see if he has any extra arrowheads you'll be walking in really fresh air.
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....Joe