When I was a kid, dad had a lot of friends that were greenhouse owners. Some of them had coal fired boilers to keep the greenhouses warm and he would occasionally get a small load of anthracite coal from them. It would be in decent sized chunks - maybe 8"-10", and we would burn it in our fireplace. Usually we'd have a regular wood fire but then add 2 or 3 chunks of the coal at night and it would burn all night long.Just fired up the anthracite stove I installed this summer.
Screw cutting all that damn firewood. Screw messing with kero or gas.
I can get 40 pounds of these Dinosaur Turds for $13 and it lasts forever. And because it’s hard coal, it doesn’t smoke the neighbors.
Bonus is making the environmental ninny’s lie when they say that no one burns coal in Marion county anymore.