Anyone getting coal for Christmas

Jace said:
Coal...grew up with it.
House had coal furnace...coal bin..
After a burn, you pulled out the bottom rack and picked out the good pieces
For re-use.
"Those we the days"🤭
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Yes, coal is actually excellent for heat. When we lived in colorado we installed Russo brand coal burning stoves. One in the walkout basement and the other one main floor. I loved them. My husband built two big coal bins as well.
 
We also had coal heat until we got a new oil burning furnace when I was about 12 years old. Prior to that, it was my job to go down to the cellar and get it fired up each morning from about the age of 7 or 8.

It was a bit of a neighborhood event when coal was delivered each fall because we lived across the street from a playground, and lots of kids would gather to watch.
 
raybar said:
We also had coal heat until we got a new oil burning furnace when I was about 12 years old. Prior to that, it was my job to go down to the cellar and get it fired up each morning from about the age of 7 or 8.

It was a bit of a neighborhood event when coal was delivered each fall because we lived across the street from a playground, and lots of kids would gather to watch.
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Yes, our coal bin was in the front of the house ( basement)with a window that the coal delivery came thru.
 
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We had a coal mine not far from our house when growing up in S/E Ohio. It was my job from the age of 8 to go down & shake the grates & then pull out the clinker & put in a steel bucket to let them cool. Then Dad took them out along with the ashes & had to shove them out & put them on our driveway. In time sure made a nice hard drive. I also had to stoke the fire at night so it would last all night.

Then about 1950, we got natural gas down our road, so someone came & installed an N.G. converter blower in the old firebrick-lined furnace. Same time we got electricity.
 
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Did you know that you can run your car on coal. The UK sits on vast quantities of coal, so when the crude oil imports couldn't get through during the war, coal was used instead.

The fellow filling the car has to be the garage proprietor, self-service was unheard of back then. Love his mode of dress.
 
horseless carriage said:
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Did you know that you can run your car on coal. The UK sits on vast quantities of coal, so when the crude oil imports couldn't get through during the war, coal was used instead.

The fellow filling the car has to be the garage proprietor, self-service was unheard of back then. Love his mode of dress.
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I wasn't phased by this at all until you mentioned the no self-service bit. Incredible how we become acceptable to change so rapidly.
 
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