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RDannemann

August 08, 2017 12:48PM

Registered: 12 years ago
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Crushes and sorts coal lumps by size for different use.
For example, coal for a kitchen stove uses a small size.
This Coal Breaker produced 5 different sizes if I recall
correctly.

Many homes used coal for heating and cooking long ago.
Coal straight from a mine of the era might contain large
lumps of 12 to 24" or larger. Now many coal mines use
mechanical digging machines which destroys a lot of
the huge lumps.

Locally here in Delta County CO they advertise 'Stoker
Coal' which is graded for size that will run thru the
stoker auger of automatic home stoves.

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Re: Floresta Coal Breaker	BillGrierson	August 07, 2017 07:26PM
Re: Floresta Coal Breaker	Dave_A	August 07, 2017 11:42PM
Re: Floresta Coal Breaker	BillGrierson	August 08, 2017 09:29AM
Re: Floresta Coal Breaker	Tomstp	August 08, 2017 12:11PM
Re: Floresta Coal Breaker	RDannemann	August 08, 2017 12:48PM
Re: Floresta Coal Breaker	hank	August 09, 2017 09:45AM
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Re: Floresta Coal Breaker	BillGrierson	August 08, 2017 04:12PM
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Re: Floresta Coal Breaker	sbruss66	August 29, 2017 12:05AM
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