Wet coal

[GUMPY]

Can someone please explain the following as I can't!

 

I have a bag of dry smokless fuel

I cut along the top seam about 1/3

Take out 1/3 of the bag into my scuttle

Fold over the top so its weather tight and put a brick on top to keep it closed.

Two days later go to get some more fuel and its soaking wet.

How does so much water get in there........

 

Puzzled of Berko

[Horace42]

It was already wet.

[bassplayer]

You could always light a fire and dry it out

[matty40s]

you need a bigger scuttle, then it wouldn't get a chance to get wet

[MtB]

Mr Bizzard put the water in when you weren't looking, just to puzzle you...

[Chalky]

It's Schroedingers coal. It's both wet and dry simultaneously, it only determines its state when you open the bag.

[peterboat]

Thats why I have a coal bunker

[Loafer]

It soon dries when you bung it on the fire.

[system 4-50]

It's Schroedingers coal. It's both wet and dry simultaneously, it only determines its state when you open the bag.

You can't know that...

[Mike Jordan]

In the days when coal merchants delivered door to door using hundredweight bags, every lorry or cart had a sign that stated - all open sacks on this vehicle contains stones, soil, mud, dust and some occasional lumps of coal. This was some sort of legal dodge to satisfy the weights and measures man. I don't recall any mention of the fact that bags and contents were wet through. This was probably to keep the dust down in fairness, but you can't fault the logic of finding a market for rainwater, and it's very clever keeping it in paper sacks!

[Scholar Gypsy]

I have once had to put coal in an oven to get it dry enough to light....

[Jerra]

In the days when coal merchants delivered door to door

Ours still does.

[Mike Jordan]

Ours still does.

But is he still using the horse and cart?

[Jerra]

But is he still using the horse and cart?

LOL Never has in my life time.

[DHutch]

I've seen some bags that are micro perforated, and obviously it's much easier to get water into a nearly airtight bag than for it to dry out, but I must say if it was dry to start and then kept covered as you say that does sound odd. I guess there where enough holes in the bag from them being rehandled it got in through them?

 

Fortunately coal high energy density and not very absorbant, so unlike burning wet/unseasoned logs burning wet coal is a fairly none issue.

 

Daniel

[patty-ann]

Ive found this with smokeless I reckon the water drains from top coal through to the stuff underneath as I empty bag and its dry to start with and very drippy as the bag empties..and I can get one 10kg bag in bucket by fire.

[Klanky]

Buy a Broco Underwater Burning Kit - that'll get it going...... also useful for lighting Morso Squirrels' in sunken boats.....