I can identify with that.? Did you ever try
keeping a fire with wood in a stove designed for coal burning??
It takes much wood and lots of attention.? Even a fireplace can
burn warmer and longer if you install a good grate and use coal
after the fire gets hot.? These were my jobs at home while
growing up over my young years.?
Sometimes we
could not get small lump coal, only large ones.? They had to be
broken up with a Sledge Hammer to fit into the fire.?
Thanks
for the memories!
Don Staton in VA
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On 7/15/2013 12:55 PM, Skip Luke wrote:
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I can't even imagine how fast that stuff must burn!
Sumpter's No. 3 Heisler burns 5-foot lengths of split
wood. I was just reading in a circa-1940 issue of Railroad
Magazine about a shortline in Georgia that had quit coal
and went back to wood as it was cheaper there. Put big
funnel stacks back on its lokies.
Skip
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"Henry" wrote:
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> Can't argue with that Skip ! The ashcat was a busy
boy on wood burners . Only other unusual use of fuel ? In
the Phillipines the sugar locos burned field stubble ?
Must've used Boo-Coo amounts of it ! Henry
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