Pellets
- Snotzalot
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Local HD is now fully stocked with pellets. Now is the time to stock up, heating season just a few months away!
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- 2001Sierra
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$$$ compared to coal when comparing BTU'S.
- coal stoker
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I know here in the Hudson Valley region some areas are sold out for the season already.
Funny because the pellets have not even arrived yet, but some places will not take anymore orders for the upcoming season.
Maybe if hey burned coal there fuel would last longer. .
Or maybe just cost less.
CS
Funny because the pellets have not even arrived yet, but some places will not take anymore orders for the upcoming season.
Maybe if hey burned coal there fuel would last longer. .
Or maybe just cost less.
CS
- Lightning
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I'll use 5 or 6 bags before I lite the coal furnace. I'll be straight up and honest though, I've used a wide variety of pellets and have found that their premium pellets aren't really so premium lol. They have slightly more ash and slightly less heat output than some others that I have burned.
- Stoker6268
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$269.00 for garbage pellets at my HD.
Dont burn pellets. Too much work, too much $.....
Dont burn pellets. Too much work, too much $.....
- ONEDOLLAR
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Gotta admit the pellet and hearth industry has done a wonderful job in getting people to burn them.Stoker6268 wrote:$269.00 for garbage pellets at my HD.
Dont burn pellets. Too much work, too much $.....
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- lsayre
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Kiln dried and brick sized compressed sawdust products like Bio Blocks and Enviro-Bricks are going for between $160 and $185 per ton around here. 8,000 BTU's per pound. 16 million BTU's per ton.
- skobydog
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My co worker would not listen to what I had to say about coal. She was so stuck on defending her pellet stove that I just walked away. It's almost like their brain-washed.ONEDOLLAR wrote:Gotta admit the pellet and hearth industry has done a wonderful job in getting people to burn them.Stoker6268 wrote:$269.00 for garbage pellets at my HD.
Dont burn pellets. Too much work, too much $.....
I may burn some cord wood that I cut and split from my property in the fall unless people are willing to pay me top dollar for it which seems to happen around here at that time.
Nothing against people who burn pellets but some are so stuck on them they won't even consider other options.
- davidmcbeth3
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She doesn't like you making all that CO2 ( even though she does the same ~ she's different, special). I see wood burners all the time - I don't try to convert them but I do tell them that my fuel costs were 1/2 of what they actually were just to watch their eyes get wide.skobydog wrote:
My co worker would not listen to what I had to say about coal. She was so stuck on defending her pellet stove that I just walked away. It's almost like their brain-washed.
I may burn some cord wood that I cut and split from my property in the fall unless people are willing to pay me top dollar for it which seems to happen around here at that time.
Nothing against people who burn pellets but some are so stuck on them they won't even consider other options.
- BunkerdCaddis
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What I find so scary is that I almost went with wood pellets... I had the foresight at least to do a search on fuel comparison and this forum's fuel cost calc came up. Thanks to those who put that together, it led me to this forum and I began to learn. Now I walk out my backdoor look at my 3 year supply of heat that I bought for what it cost for 1 year of fuel oil, "smile a black-toothed grin" (sorry, Megadeath flashback) and think "no shortages at the pellet store for me"! And I'm done with 25 years of cutting firewood.