Pickering 2010

[Thecoalman]

Originally Posted by Luke

I found the coal to be pretty awful to be honest, their was no way we could generate on the engine as it would cover our fair rides in rubbish,

Lord Lassels tried to generate on the saturday for the chairoplanes but the smoke was that bad when just powering the cab lights, they had to stop to save everybodys lungs on the fair.

However it was still a good event and i thouroughly enjoyed it.

I cant understand this if yiou were burning my coal we dont sell coal which wont do the Job would have liked to send them the welsh but that was not an option Our coal we sent was the standard in the yellow bags not the loose coal.

[Luke]

The coal in yellow bags wasn't too bad but still very smokey and clinkerd very easily which made generating hardwork,

The loose coal that was deliverd on saturday was awful. Being careful with the amount of coal used at one point was key otherwise the smoke would fill the air

[mark lewis]

Originally Posted by Thecoalman

I cant understand this if yiou were burning my coal we dont sell coal which wont do the Job would have liked to send them the welsh but that was not an option Our coal we sent was the standard in the yellow bags not the loose coal.

The coal we had from you was good stuff and wasnt too smokey interesting luke had clinker troubles we didnt, but the loose stuf was awfull for smoke. Did any one get any photos of the showmens on saturday night?

[Ruston]

Clinker with Andys coal not on the Ruston ,so is it the engine or the driver , all we get at the end of the day is fine ash , keep it coming Andy

[Luke]

speaking to quite a few of the showmans they all sed they had the same problem with clinker, so maybe the coal was ok for engines who are not working so hard

[Ruston]

May i ask what ampage the showmans were putting out

[mark lewis]

Originally Posted by Ruston

May i ask what ampage the showmans were putting out

Dont know what the ampage was but we were powering the lights on the Oktoberfest organ which included 15 halogen floodlights, so we reckon there was a fair bit and had no problems.

[ianmorris1960]

Watching the meter on Friday night, Lord lascellles was peaking about 150 amps on the chairoplanes.

It was very noticable the amount of smoke on Saturday night around the fair.

I didn't get any of Andys coal, but had some left over from anglesey which I took - good stuff.

I did pick up the last few lumps of the loose coal on Saturday, it was more smokey than the house coal I took to light the Ruston! Seemed like the smoke was full of tar, tubes got very clogged.

Ian

[Steamhead21]

Without wishing to upset any coal supplies.
there was a lot more smoke on saturday night than usual at pickering