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Walker
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tadams(OH)
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I remember the big hopper just north of Amity where the State trucks used to reload. We never went south to often usally went north to Ashland
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Tbone95
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Hmm....Guess I can't say I made that connection. Of course I worked at the U, so there was women of every kind everywhere
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Tbone95
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Did your shoes get wet? And how did they keep the chalk lines straight and in place? Edited by Tbone95 - 11 Jan 2019 at 8:09am |
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Walker
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Edited by Walker - 11 Jan 2019 at 1:00am |
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Walker
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DiyDave
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I remember seein them around Biglerville, back in the '80's. I think the shovel was optional, usually wore out junk...
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cabinhollow
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I was at a track meet in OH about 10 years ago and the track was cider.
After so many races, they would re-chalk the lines. |
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tadams(OH)
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Some township still use cider around here in Ohio the last I knew they were getting them from Rittman
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Walker
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I'm north central oh. I've seen most of the piles I speak of in northern Knox county and I would hesitate to rule out them still using them today on occasion though I haven't noticed any for some years.
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Tbone95
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I used to live in Athens, OH, which is 1 quite hilly and 2, in Ohio's coal country. They used coal cinders on the roads after a snow or freezing rain. I don't recall ever seeing piles or containers of them though...interesting topic.
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LouSWPA
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Ken, sorry for hijacking your post!
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I am still confident of this;
I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
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LouSWPA
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there is or was a PenDOT cinders/ash dump station along that stretch of road, and a truck runaway also, but to my knowledge cinders/ashes for public was never places along the road there |
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I am still confident of this;
I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
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DMiller
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About all sold around here is tops after logged a area. The limbs will run from 2 or 3" to around 6" where splits easy, cuts quick and uses up what takes DECADES to rot down. Smaller brushy crap is cut down where will lay flat if not pushed to large piles where does rot fast while still making a decent hide for small game.
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Ken in Texas
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Tree tops don't make good firewood. I remember delivering a load of unsplit small rounds to a rich customer. When we were unloading the Maid stopped us and said, " Mister Standard He say Limbs Don't make good Wood" So. We took it back home and split it into Half Rounds and brought it back.
Tops Makes good Charcoal. The brush gets burnt to cook off what's in the barrel. Nothing goes to Waste
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Ted J
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At one time a LOT of years ago, the city of La Crosse used to put all the cinders down the alleys. I still have scars from them on my knees. Bicycles didn't fare very well down those alleys.
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Heat is often a byproduct of many processes. Making charcoal puts off alot of extra heat.
In many countries people are beginning to put a metal can of wood in their cooking and heating fires to make charcoal as they cook/heat. Using a fire they were going to build anyway and making a byproduct they can sell. |
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allis g
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Ray you can still see the remnants of a kiln out on 46 west near York Mountain Road. North side of 46 East of York mountain. It was built into the side of the hill on a ranch that a friend owns.
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Walker
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Now that I think about it I remember seeing cinder piles near Pittsburg years ago on the hill that has the tunnel then bridge going toward three rivers stadium. near where USS Requin is moored.
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Walker
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And when it first rained to open the festivities you would find a nice coating of ice to chip through before you got to cinders.
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Walker
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Not positive but I always figured a cross between coke and clinkers here. There'd be a pile near waist high and 10 ft dia every couple hundred feet along up side of bigger hills till they were gotten into.
Edited by Walker - 09 Jan 2019 at 6:12pm |
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Walker
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In Oh they just dumped them, no shovel no receptacle. You are very lucky you don't remember carrying them, if you can imagine trying to keep balance in a 10 or 12`inch deep narrow tire track in the dark and covered in snow yourself. Almost as fun as laying in the middle of the road on your back under a car in snow or ice putting on tire chains and hoping a car didn't top the hill from the other direction before you had a chance to slither into the ditch.
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DMiller
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We had cinders from the local power station the city spread LIBERALLY on the streets, even Grey cars looked NASTY!! Had a coal furnace until was eight, had a Clinker can in the basement which after cooled some got mashed up and used on the sidewalk in front of the house.
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LouSWPA
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ya know, Walker, I can remember when the PennDOT strategically placed receptacles of ashes from the steel mills along hills in the winter time just for that purpose.
I was too little to remember what type of receptacle, or if they left shovels, but I do remember dad making use of them on occasion |
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I am still confident of this;
I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
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Walker
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Remember not making a hill in snow. getting your shovel out of the trunk, walking down the hill to the cinder pile in the tracks your car made, scooping up a shovel full, walking back up the hill, tossing those cinders in front of the drive wheel and repeating as necessary as many times as it took. Always the most fun at night and in the middle of the storm.
Edited by Walker - 09 Jan 2019 at 4:16pm |
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Dipstick In
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The train that hauled the coke out of the Indianapolis Power and Light plant ran behind my father-in-law's house in Indy, and every nite a 100 car load of coke was hauled to the Gary steel mills until they closed up. I think this was coal mined around Terre Haute. It was a pretty good system,,,,,,,,, Indy burned the coal gas off for power, and the mills used the coke!
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You don't really have to be smart if you know who is!
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Walker
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I took the Jack Daniels Distillery tour years ago and if I remember right it was Sugar Maple splits about 5 feet long and stacked like a wood and mud chimney around 10 feet high, torched, then put out with water.
It was still dripping when the tour moved on so that's all I know about it. |
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Walker
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That was only what he had left over after making floorboards. He speced the pallets ordered parts came in on and glory be they just happened to be the same width as his cars.
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tadams(OH)
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Old Henry Ford was quite a engineer
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Ken in Texas
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Old Henry Ford made Charcoal using scrap oak wood left from building Model Ts and As.
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