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Handled it, shovelled it into our furnace as an 8-year old. I remember the ashes that would fly up the heating ducts to settle on every horizontal surface in the house. We had our coal in a bin in the basement. The bin was a room about 8 X 10 feet. The coal delivery service would run a very long chute to the basement window above the coal bin and let it roll in. Coal was $18 a ton then and sometimes, if my parents had been able to save enough money from the previous week, they could buy 2 tons of coal. <br /> <br />While I didn't have to worry about digging through a coal bin in the freezing mornings, I did have to carry my share of coal ashes out to be dumped. <br /> <br />No, I don't miss doing it, but I miss the smell of a coal fire, unless it's a high-sulfur coal.
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