Pro tip: an old timer at the Abana conference in Madison grabbed my tongs and saved me 40 bucks a month in coal

Uma Moore · 2026-09-26T06:35:03.83004+00:00

I was reheating a stubborn 1 inch square bar for the fourth time that day when he walked by and said I was burning half my fuel for nothing. He showed me to bring the steel up slow instead of blasting it, and my coal bill dropped from about 60 bucks to 20 over the next month. Any of you run a deeper fire and feed it slower, or am I the last guy to learn this?

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