Squeaky wheel gets the grease...

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smokin' joe

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Oct 8, 2007
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I just got off the phone with the folks at Humphrey Lump Charcoal Co. They called me after I complained via their website about rocks in my last batch of lump. The woman was very nice and must have said she was sorry a dozen times. Also I learned something...She said that the rocks get scooped up off the ground when the loaders and scooping up the lump to run it through their screen filters. I guess it gets dumped into large piles then the loaders move it from one place to another. Anyway she said that the lump passes over screens and allows any debris to drop below. Sometimes the larger rocks make it through especially when the loaders are scooping at or near the bottom of the pile.

I had never thought of that being the reason for rocks but it makes sense to me. She also said they would either refund my money of send me a fresh bag of lump. I opted for the lump. Just thought I would pass this along, great customer service from this company and they seem very willing to make the customer happy.
 
so Joe we have the lump police now? good for you-I would think that they could come up with somthing-and or a manual screening process-Ahh thats right theres been a alien roundup there as here.good work joe.
 
Thanks for the info. Will have to remember that.
Glad to see that some companies still have a good customer service.
Andy.
 
huh... I would think it would be relatively easy to setup an automated screening process based on the density of a given lump. I'm sure a rock weighs a heck of a lot more per volume than a lump of charcoal. I would think that some point during the process they could run over a scale and get a rough estimate of density and filter it based on that. Shoot, or even get José to sit there and watch the lumps go past and pull out the rocks.
 
my thoughts are a synthetic surface that dosn't require the digging of ground matter-not really hi tech.
 
haha... now that would be the easy way to go!
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there is a machine we use in scrap metal recycling, called an air table it blows the garbage and such from car shredders away from the heavier metal, this would fix the rock problem right away
 
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