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JerseyTex
JerseyTex Posts: 53
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Has any one gotten rocks in there bag of lump
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  • theyolksonyou
    theyolksonyou Posts: 18,458
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    Welcome to the world of natural lump charcoal. They all have occasional foreign bodies. Some worse than others. 
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  • xiphoid007
    xiphoid007 Posts: 536
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    I switched to Ozark oak. I found royal oak too smokey for me, but especially my wife. Problem is I think Ozark oak has gone away, so next online order will be for rockwood.

    I just use royal oak for clean burns now.
    Pittsburgh, PA - 1 LBGE
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 14,624
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    get a rock or something now and then, never anything that size
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  • tarheelmatt
    tarheelmatt Posts: 9,867
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  • Ladeback69
    Ladeback69 Posts: 4,482
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    Yes, when I used to use Royal Oak, but not as much now that I use Rockwood.
    XL, WSM, Coleman Road Trip Gas Grill

    Kansas City, Mo.
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  • 500
    500 Posts: 3,177
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    I like my butt rubbed and my pork pulled.
    Member since 2009
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    edited May 2015
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    nope. not that i've noticed anyway. RO (mostly) and WG for nearly six years now. then again, I just dump and light. maybe if I examined each piece? but even during the extremely rare clean out, i don't recall ever seeing an unburned rock. or any other foreign substance.

    BTW, what are the bucket and box for?

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • tarheelmatt
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  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,522
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    I’ll see your rock and raise you a meteorite.... from the same bag of Royal Choke, a few years ago - the squares are 1”. 
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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  • Langner91
    Langner91 Posts: 2,120
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    I found a small one, like the size of a golf ball, but never anything as large as some of these.
    Clinton, Iowa
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  • robnybbq
    robnybbq Posts: 1,911
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    I have had crushed beer cans (no not the ones I drank), railroad nail spike and rocks over the past few years.  I think most were from RO but I have seen this in other brands as well.  

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    Garnerville, NY
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  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,522
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    @robnybbq - beer can, first time ever heard that! Do you have a return for refund in your area? Kinda like a 5 or 10 cent discount on lump. Railway spike is scary - makes you wonder if a tie was in that bag... :o
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 25,893
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    rocks? Here's just some of my prizes! I thought they got the idea from CrackerJack!

    Re-gasketing America one yard at a time.
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  • stlcharcoal
    stlcharcoal Posts: 4,684
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    Skiddymarker said:
    @robnybbq - beer can, first time ever heard that! Do you have a return for refund in your area? Kinda like a 5 or 10 cent discount on lump. Railway spike is scary - makes you wonder if a tie was in that bag... :o

    Unlikely......no reason to kiln one of those when they're worth a lot more than scrap hardwood slabs.  More like someone nailed it into a tree decades ago and the tree grew around it, encapsulating it.  Knotty chunks get rejected by the mill and they're sold for charcoal or mulch.  Same goes with the rocks.

    There's really no way around them without inspecting and weighing every single chunk of charcoal in the bag.  10-20x longer to fill a bag and I can't even imagine what it would cost.  Much cheaper to overfill the bags by .4-.6# to keep the state's weights & measures happy, and cover the occasional rock, metal banding, etc. that may get into the bag.


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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
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    RO home delivery 

    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 32,758
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    for those wondering where the REAL Stike is







    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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