Blacksmithing & Heating Coal, 25lbs, Unflavored, Chunks, Fuel

Great for camping. Burns clean in the tent heater/stove, and it lasts through the night, but not for cooking

This coal is hard to light and keep lit but I have discovered a way to keep it lit easily. Just put kindling on it and then wood and light it. The wood gets the coal to burn but getting the coal to smelting heat requires bellows and sometimes and blower machine to help you but in a small stove to heat your room, a bellow will do. Note: burning coal in small amounts like in your stove or forge is safe and no one cares but in massive amounts like in a power plant, too much and bad for the environment. Just have proper ventilation or you will have serious problems.

Just recently got into smithing, currently I use a modified grill for my forge and I have been able to form, normalize and heat treat five knives and have use about 15 lbs of this coal. Definitely get plenty hot, melted off a few tips by accident.Last much longer than wood charcoal.It does smoke up a bit at first, my forge is uot doors so it is barely noticeable. You will have to pick out the glass like deposits it makes every do often.Below are a couple of my projects:

I agree with most of the reviews. Very fast shipping, full box of coal. Lots of little pieces. Very difficult to get lit, and produces a substantial amount of smoke. All that said, the smaller pieces make it easier to light. Once lit, I get a good 6 to 8 hour burn in my little cubic mini stove. Which was my goal. I live at 10,000 feet in the Colorado mountains, and we often lose power leaving my only heat source as my little cubic mini. If I’m just burning wood, I have to feed it every half hour. This allows for a full night sleep! Overall, a 7.5 out of 10. I will be purchasing more coal, however, from a different outlet as this Coal is priced well above the average!

Worked great had no problems, used for forging in coal forge got ten times hotter than charcoal great product would buy again

Beautiful and a perfect product.

Its coal. This product is a bit pricey, but works well to start the anthracite coal that I get at TSC ($11.99 for 40lbs). All in all, the product is as stated, but the cost seems a bit above the going rate for "house coal".

What can you say about coal? The customer service was good. The coal burns like, well, coal. It makes a fire hot enough to turn aluminum to liquid or heat iron to glowing bright red. Depending on where you live coal is hard to come by, so this is a good place to get it,although shipping costs more than the product.