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How DoYou Build CoalBin
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| Hello,
In my basement:
How do you construct a coal bin for about 3 tons of coal?
Would 5'x10' and 4' high be largre enough?
How would you construct the "door/trap" from where i
would be shoveling the coal?- of course i want to shovel
from the smooth, basement floor.
Who from the Corry/Erie, pa, area delivers coal?
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Harry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In my basement:
> How do you construct a coal bin for about 3 tons of coal?
Stoutly??? 
> Would 5'x10' and 4' high be largre enough?
Bituminous coal has a bulk density somewhere in the range of 50
lb/cu-ft so 6000 lb/50 lb/cu-ft --> 120 cu-ft. The volume would be
adequate.
> How would you construct the "door/trap" from where i
> would be shoveling the coal?- of course i want to shovel
> from the smooth, basement floor.
>From here on, you're on your own. If you're planning on bulk coal in a
basement, that's something I wouldn't want to deal with--it's dirty,
potentially explosive/combustible, the burning of it is also dirty in
both soot/smoke and corrosive gases, etc., etc., etc.
During a period when I was working for a manufacturer of online ash
analyzers at mines and prep plants my junior-high-age daughter did a
science project on various coals, measuring caloric content and so on
of small samples I brought home from various mines. We set up the
apparatus in the driveway in front of the house and w/o thinking left
the garage door open. From no more than a dozen test firings of a few
ounces each, the smoke caused rusting of every unpainted surface in the
garage--table saw/jointer/planer tables, drill press column, etc.
These were E KY, and W WVA moderately high-sulfur bituminous
coals--probably not too much different than what you'll get from local
coals there. I personally, would leave the coal to the power stations
and other large boilers that have the facilities to handle and burn it.
50 years after the coal-furnace was removed from the house there was
_still_ coal dust around when the folks remodeled and finally covered
all the walls and floors. The house was initially built w/ an enclosed
room w/ poured concrete walls and a metal-clad door and ceiling as the
"coal room" and a delivery chute through a small window. It had been
emptied by the time I recall and I don't know how it was dispensed--I
think simply w/ a bucket and small shovel to the boiler--it doesn't
take a tremendous volume for a household boiler--it's not like firing a
locomotive.
> Who from the Corry/Erie, pa, area delivers coal?
No idea, but I'd think Yellow Pages would be a start.
What do you have to burn it in, first?
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| CWatters 2006-08-15, 5:25 pm |
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"Harry" <paminifarm3@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:1155647454.739020.106150@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> In my basement:
> How do you construct a coal bin for about 3 tons of coal?
> Would 5'x10' and 4' high be largre enough?
> How would you construct the "door/trap" from where i
> would be shoveling the coal?- of course i want to shovel
> from the smooth, basement floor.
Why let it fall all the way to the floor only to shovel it up again? Why not
design it so that it's held above floor level by some kind of door eg so
when you open the door the coal falls into your bucket (or whatever you were
going to shovel it into). Have gravity do the work for you.
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