[TheForge] Drilling angles etc/ now sulfur

[Bruce Freeman]

Peter,

Wonderful information.
The "creamy" consistency of the melted sulfur suggests to me that it
had not undergone rearrangement from the yellow S8 to the  red poly-S.
 Interesting.
Careful with the roofing application.  As you mention, sulfur is not
fire resistant.

Bob,
Garden sulfur is just sulfur for gardens.  Do not confuse the fines in
coal with sulfur, thought there might be a lot of the latter in the
former.  Some fines can be burned by wetting them to a putty or thick
paste.  They'll coke up as a solid lump.  But other fines are just
dirt.



On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> Hi Bob;
>
> Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>> Peter,
>> I had never heard the term "garden sulfur" before. What is is used for in
>> the garden?
> It's used to acidify alkaline soil.
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is someone gave me some coal that they found in a shed
>> on a farm that they just got. I tried it out, and it is really nasty stuff.
>> I could barely get it to burn in the forge because of all the fines.  It
>> doesn't coke up like good coal, the fines just go to the bottom of the fire
>> pot and clog things up.  So I sifted the fines out and the chunks burned (so
>> so). Finally I mixed the chunks in with good coal and could get a pretty
>> decent fire out of it. It's not great but I have a 55 gal drum of the stuff
>> that I need to use up and I'd rather burn it than just throw it away.
> I once saw Bruce Northridge take similar coal and wash it in a tub of
> water, leaving the fines behind, with success. Someone else had to clean
> it up.
>>
>> Any way I was wondering what to do with the fines. When I saw your post, it
>> gave me hope that it might actually be good for my garden, depending on what
>> it does to it. So is high sulfer coal dust safe for the soil? Or is it only
>> good for certan types of soil?  And what would they be?
> Coal varies a lot in bonus ingredients, mercury among them..I'd sooner
> use it as pothole filler than put it in a garden.
> My friend Ed Nater is one of the foremost experts on the question if you
> really want an in depth answer.pf
>>
>> Robert Ehrenberger
>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>> eforge at centurytel.net
>>
>> ----Original message----
>> From: Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Drilling angles etc/ now sulfur
>>
>> Hi Bruce;
>> I've used sulfur a number of times successfully to set steel into stone
>> and it lasts indefinitely as far as i know.
>> I don't recall it's turning red when molten though.
>> I have used garden sulfur. There used to be a huge pile under a chute at
>> a local refinery and no one minded if i filled 5 gallon buckets with it.
>> It was selling for about $10/# then.
>>
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Bruce
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