CLINKER/GRABBER STORY!

    Last night while taking part in a Flea Market/Antique in South Amana, Iowa, I saw a man walking away with a long metal"Clinker-Coal Grabber." I hadn't seen one of those since I lived on the family farm 3 1/2 miles south of Laurel,Iowa back in the early 1960's. 

      When I was a young boy, it was one of my jobs to go down to the basement and fill the stoker with coal into the feeder. Then I would take the "Clinker/Grabber" and pull out the clinkers from the furnace and put the hard ash in a bucket and carry out and spread out onto the drive-way.