Portland Oregon Coke Buy

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Everyone,
I got this e-mail today:
"L Brand"® Coke is filling a West Coast truck for delivery late October/early November 2012. Any location near the route below can be serviced.
The route will be I-40 to LA then North on I-5 as far as Seattle if orders are forth coming.
A commercial address or forklift is not needed for delivery. The only requirement is that a full size flatbed truck and trailer have room to maneuver.
The price is $700.00 pnt ($17.50/50 LB) cash or check, or $728.00 ($18.20/50 LB) credit card.
Checks and credit cards will not deposited or charged until the day the truck leaves the "L Brand® warehouse.
Thanks for your interest in "L Brand"®. For more info, open our website at
www.Blacksmithcoke.com.
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With a couple more e-mails I figured out that it is a 40 bag minumum order, or $700. I don't have this money laying around, and so I was interested in seeing if members in the Portland, OR area would be interested in splitting the order. It works out to 17.50 per 50 lb bag.

Thanks,
Steven
(Before you report this for deal spotting, I cleared it with the moderator before I posted it.)
 
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Steven, I checked out their website and this is coal that is already "coked". Just adding this because there is a difference, good bad or indifferent depending on your forge and needs.
Best,
Steve
 
I used blacksmithing coke for a while- it burned pretty nice but was sometimes a bitch to light. It was kind of like forging and welding in a charcoal fire, but with way less sparks. I recall it needed pretty hard blast to get a very big welding fire. The price works out better than what I paid per bag.

What you going to do with all that coke? Do you do much blacksmithing?
 
After reading the title.........I'm just glad yall are talking about coal.:D

Stan
 
Hi Geek 574 (can't remember, is it Chris?),

I had a ton of that stuff shipped to Oahu about 4-5 years ago for high school BS classes. I wanted it for the low (to no) smoke impact in consideration for our urban neighborhood. Worked like a charm, except when getting the fires started. I was even going to solve that by using propane to kick it off. When we ran out, better than a year ago, I decided to go with just propane; mostly because I couldn't get the budget release to order and ship in another ton. It has worked out better in most all ways using propane, mostly because the kids are getting about twice as much actual forge time since they don't have to fuss with starting, managing and sharing the solid-fuel fire-pots.

Anyway, if you can't manage the whole ton order you might want to check in with John McLellan of the CBA (Ca BS Assoc). He buys the stuff and resells it in smaller quantities at near cost. It's been a few years since I've talked with him, but he probably still does it. He's in the Sacrament area, so not toooo far from you. If it can't work out through him, he may have some other ideas or know of BSs in your area that might have some or be able to go in on it with you.

Good luck! —Phil
 
I just start it with some nice blacksmithing coal, which I start with splinters of cedar or whatever. You can also just pile it up and shine a little coleman propane plumbing torch on the pile for a few minutes, that does it too.
It's not that bad- there's a reason that the Brits use a side draft blower with coke though...sure is nice for whatever you do with a coal forge.
 
I can't drive, and my parents charge stupid amounts, to the order of 50 cents per mile, for trips that they don't get anything out of. That makes it cost prohibitive. However, I got some coal through another source, and kind of fell in love.

As far as propane goes, it is costing me about 3 dollars per hour. Right now, natural lump charcoal that I make costs nothing, and the cheapest lump charcoal costs 35 cents per pound. I assume about 2 pounds per hour, which brings me to about 75 cents per hour. The coal costs about 43 cents per pound, but I have heard that you would use about a quarter the amount of it as you would charcoal. (I got this from wherever I could find it, there aren't a lot of hard numbers on the subject.) That makes my price a whopping approximate 20 cents per hour. I am working on a "as cheap as possible" budget, and so this fits nicely. This is also a opportunity that doesn't come around very often, that is, not having to get coal shipped out here. It looks like this isn't going to work, unless I get a large buyer in a hurry.
 
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