Finally a good day hauling cinders

vscummins · Mar 16, 2016

Nothing broke and didn't get stuck

jm. · Mar 16, 2016

So what do you do with cinders?

rrc300 u · Mar 16, 2016

All of the townships used to use cinders on the gravel roads as anti skid ice melter till about 10 years ago. I'm not sure if they stopped because of availability or tree hugger regulations. The main thing I'm sure of is sand does not do the same job. Here in NW PA there were all kinds of places that ran big coal fired boilers for steam and for power generation. It's a shame alot of it is gone.

vscummins · Mar 16, 2016

Making a road / driveway

Michael Price · Mar 16, 2016

thats a nice chevy back there. I love my 6.5L.

jeffcat · Mar 16, 2016

Thank the bamy whitehouse.

IA Roy · Mar 16, 2016

40 years ago dad built an open front hog finishing building. In the Marshalltown area, the power plant was giving cinders (they called it coal ash)away and you only had to pay for the trucking. It packed a lot better than sand for concrete base fill. I don't know how long that lasted, but the plant was just converted to natural gas fire. Since I typed this, we are probably talking about a different waste product. The ash was the remains of powdered coal.

T in NE · Mar 16, 2016

They hauled out all the piles at the old avtex plant in Meadville years ago. About 20 years ago they sold all the stone out of the sewer plant there. Then they paid to have a couple thousand yards dug out of a swamp where we built a driveway for a gas well because someone figured out later it had too much lead leached into it.

vscummins · Mar 16, 2016

I got this one for a thousand bucks the body is rough and the doors don't shut very good but it runs good I have the recipt fthat shows a Reman engine installed 80,000 miles ago and a reman trans about the same time

Steve A W · Mar 17, 2016

The town My parents live in had troubles with the ground water
being contaminated from from the ash from the power plant.
They put the blame on the landfill but a lot of the streets
were built with cinders.
When I worked for the street dept. in the late '80s we used
cinders from the state prison on the roads when it snowed.
Here's a little something to read about it. It's a little one sided,
but what do you expect from the press.

Steve A W
Town of Pines water trouble.

Brown Swiss · Mar 17, 2016

Is fly ash the same thing? My grandfather had some loads of fly ash put on the driveway back in the 40s, then the sand mine I worked in at Clayton Iowa was full of fly ash they had to remove before starting to mine sand again, that was in 2008.

Doug-Iowa · Mar 17, 2016

All my concrete was laid on Marshalltown cinders, cheap and close by. And it worked good, I have very little cracking in those slabs. Now I guess they haul it down by Ottumwa and bury it. Guess burying it there is better than burying it here, but I don't know what difference it would make. The new gas plant is going up along side the coal plant, and the coal may have been shut down already. Heard it said it will take years to demo the old coal plant due to enviro reg's.

RBoots · Mar 17, 2016

We call coal ash fly ash around here in MI, always have around me.

Ross

vscummins · Mar 17, 2016

These cinders are made buy a volcano not man

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