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I have a fairly large, 500kg coal bunker for my smokeless fuel.
For the last few years, I have had it topped up a couple of time during each winter.
I've let it drop to quite a low level this year, there is a layer of dust and very small bits, mixed with full ovals, about 3 inches deep, covering the bottom. It also a bit damp.Â
I don't want to throw it away, seems a waste but I don't want to keep adding to it.
Anyone had a similar problem?
Thinking of shoveling it out and storing elsewhere, then mixing a little in with each full coal scuttle?
bank up the fire overnight, isn't this the point of small bits of coal
It's called "slack coal" people buy it, believe it or not
You can put it on a fire at any time, but it tends to dampen a blaze. Try it
Use it for "smooring" the fire . Like PB says above, cover the embers with this coal/coal dust overnight keeps the embers warm but not burning and makes the fire easy to start in the morning
I dug mine out and dried it out spread on some cardboard in the sun
Yeh I think I'd wait till the summer and spread out in the sun, then keep it dry till next autumn!
Dry it out mix with salt petre and make s cannon
When we were kids we would dig it out and make coal cakes from a sheet of newspaper and a shovel full of debris. Wrapped up tight, and stuck with a wee strip of sellotape, it would be plonked on top of a well established fire. They burned well.