Pellet Shortage in Berks County
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My 'stock' answer is 'what in the H are you doing burning pellets when you are sitting right on top of the largest deposit of clean burning anthracite coal in the world? AND it's $170 a ton if you haul it! AND it has about 40% more btu's per pound. AND the modern, beautiful coal stoves build right in your back yard can put out 2-3 times more btus/hour! WTF? 
Happen to know Shawn Hoch?
Happen to know Shawn Hoch?
Pretty lame excuse for not using one of America's biggest natural resources, actually. Don't forget to mention the garbage fire that burned for a couple of years on the hillside in Reading, too, if you want to go lame.
Save the planet and burn pellets you can't find or burn a good, natural source of heat before we sell it ALL to China to burn in their belching furnaces.
PS: I lost 3 uncles to coal mining disasters and my grandfather was a breaker boy at the Monongha disaster after he just came to the US from Slovakia (then Austria-Hungary) in 1906, so I know about coal mining.
reallyte
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And that is the sound of a thread derailing hard folks...
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Should have been a picture of the crude oil train on fire in North Dakota![[Hearth.com] Pellet Shortage in Berks County](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fbbsimg.ngfiles.com%2F1%2F19808000%2Fngbbs4a84bbe8311c9.jpg&hash=50d630c9bd403f5d6b19d3559cee481a "[Hearth.com] Pellet Shortage in Berks County")
Just pointing out the hard to swallow facts to a question concerning the ability to heat one's house when one's fuel supply has been 'extinguished'.
Plenty of pellets just north of you in Schuylkill County. I noticed both Lowes and HD of Pottsville/St. Clair had a decent amount today, not sure about Lowes of Hamburg. Dewald & Lengle on rt. 443, just a bit north of ya, sells Hamers. Just talking to their service tech on Friday (they sell Harmans) and they constantly have them he said.
A coal stoker is something i'm very much considering, not sure why I never did. Not originally from this valley is why I guess, but i'm literally surrounded by Reading Anthracite owned property that they are actively mining, 200 yards behind is an active pit. Hell, coal is so abundant I can't dig 1 foot without hitting it. I got an unused chimney, the perfect basement for it, and I need another heat source as a backup. Reading Stoves is will be seeing me shortly
A coal stoker is something i'm very much considering, not sure why I never did. Not originally from this valley is why I guess, but i'm literally surrounded by Reading Anthracite owned property that they are actively mining, 200 yards behind is an active pit. Hell, coal is so abundant I can't dig 1 foot without hitting it. I got an unused chimney, the perfect basement for it, and I need another heat source as a backup. Reading Stoves is will be seeing me shortly
The rail line owned by Rupert Murdock, who is the main reason for no Keystone pipeline for 5 years........
Don't miss Keystoker and Leisureline stoves also. At 90,000 btu's OUTPUT, they won't be your backup! The pellet eater will be your backup!Plenty of pellets just north of you in Schuylkill County. I noticed both Lowes and HD of Pottsville/St. Clair had a decent amount today, not sure about Lowes of Hamburg. Dewald & Lengle on rt. 443, just a bit north of ya, sells Hamers. Just talking to their service tech on Friday (they sell Harmans) and they constantly have them he said.
A coal stoker is something i'm very much considering, not sure why I never did. Not originally from this valley is why I guess, but i'm literally surrounded by Reading Anthracite owned property that they are actively mining, 200 yards behind is an active pit. Hell, coal is so abundant I can't dig 1 foot without hitting it. I got an unused chimney, the perfect basement for it, and I need another heat source as a backup. Reading Stoves is will be seeing me shortly
Back on topic it is, Alpine Building Supply on rt. 183, just around the corner from dewald & Lengle has a decent stock, they were selling Lignetics last I seen
This thread should be titled "No pellets at Lowes in Berks County"
http://kegerreisstoves.com
All the Hammers, Turmans and a couple of others you could possibly want.
Ummm, I was just trying to say that if a coal fire can burn underground for 50 years, imagine how much coal there is down there.
jackbean53
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glad to here that! I've still got a ton of Turmans I pre-paid for and was thinking about getting them Saturday and was hoping they still had some (called them shortly before closing time today but think they may have closed early due to the snow). Anyone know the prices of what they stock. All I knew was the pre-buy pricing.
That's just 15 cents more than the early-buy price! Not bad! Maybe I'll grab my Turmans and some more. Hmmm now to figure out how much my F250 can safely hold in the bed.
AddictiveStew
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Kegerreiss is awesome and there are pellets at Green Hills Lumber as well. $239/ton. I think they are Energex if I'm not mistaken.
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