Posted on 03/20/2018 5:28:25 PM PDT by george76
“Before winter we would stock up on coal in the area adjacent to the furnace. “
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The coal bin.
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This is why some train tracks were laid in certain areas and directions.
Yup!
My mom picked up coal along tracks; but I never heard of her riding the train.
I went to a one room school in southern Wisconsin. Us kids had to carry the buckets of clinkers out & distribute them on the driveway around the building to keep it solid enough for the cars.
Right.
I can’t remember what we did with them—I was four, five years old—but I remember my dad cussing about them every time we had to clean ‘em out.
Wow...$200 bucks a YEAR in Colorado...that’s half of what I paid for ONE month in Kentucky using electric heat. And we kept it at 65!
There’s a chance of toxic metals in it so you probably want to avoid using it on food plants.
They used coal to heat their home. I remember seeing coal trucks back up to a basement window and dump coal down a chute into the coal bin (a basement room). They heated the house taking a coal shovel full and scooping it into a place on the front of the furnace. The hot air rose through registers in every room.
Occasionally my grandfather put too much coal in the furnace. There was little to do but enjoy the really warm (hot) house until the coal burned out. It was negative reinforcement that taught him to get his portions right.
It was actually a bit messy. Nevertheless, at one time it was cutting edge technology.
friends of our heated with coal well into the early 2000s.
The hottest house I have ever been in.
My father remembered the man who lived in the basement of his grandfather’s house and one who lived in the basement of his grandfather’s business address.
Both were general handymen, drivers, and they shoveled coal in the winter, as well as snow.
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