[TheForge] Test

[Mike Spencer]

MikeL> I guess I should feel lucky... if I run out of coal all I have
MikeL> to do is drive out to Highway 216 and pick up the piles of coal
MikeL> that fall of the trucks on the way to the power plants..

Lessee, if you do it in daylight, you're gonna get run over.  At night
you're looking  for black coal on blacktop. :-)

MikeL> wouldnt want to be the guy on the road behind them though...

Well, maybe you could rig up some funnel-like affair from monofilament
net on the hood of your car and just follow the trucks up and down the
road.  Sort of like a cross between netting birds and trawling for
fish. 

Some time ago, when I needed coal, I called a friend in Cape Breton
(where there are coal mines, including a few back-yard ones).  He
reported that when he needs coal, he drives to a particular nearby
place out in the bundoks, scrambles down a bank with a sack and digs.
This is the place where the runoff from a coal-washing plant collected
for decades so its xx feet deep in coal fines.

Considering I'd have to drive 350 miles and then dig and lug, I passed
on the opportunity.


- Mike

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