November bag count ?

I think you're misunderstanding.

 

My Bad

 

Yeah Will he said Nags...Not Shags!!

 

So i missed this... what happened to your stove? or did you decide that its cheaper to burn fuels this year instead of wood?

 

He said we were cramping his style so he decided to switch to another persuasion. After all change is good right?

 

Nah.....I sold the other house. Way too big for me and the dog, since the kids are off in college most of the time. New (small) place already has propane heat, and I got a great price on the propane, so no pellet stove at the moment.

We'll see after the winter is over. I may rip out the existing gas fireplace and put a pellet eater in next summer if the bills come out too high.

 

Now he'll be shopping for new tanks @ the local propane pimp. "I found a 250# tank for $400.00…. loaded it right up!"...

 

How many bags to a ton? How much a bag? 20-30 bags a month sounds pricey

 

Still at "0" House staying at a constant 68-69.....amazing!

 

Even though I have a heat pump so my savings are not as drastic but last year with one of the coldest winters in many years I was saving about 100 dollars a month on electricity and was a heck of a lot warmer.

 

Bag 50 went in on Thursday night. We are taking a short 2 night vaca in Ogunquit this weekend. First bag of 2nd ton will go in when we get home tomorrow night. Supposed to be a cold one, so Blazers it will be!

 

Everyone get into your bomb shelters I sense a major disturbance in the force coming.

 

Loose lips

 

how much does the hopper hold on these, or how often do you have to feed them? A bag a day? does it run nonstop, like long burn times? I'm thinking one of these pellet eaters would be a nice addition upstairs to knock the chill off. doesn't seem as expensive as I thought it would be from the initial numbers I saw posted for bag counts. How often do you have to clean out the ash? and lastly how available are the pellets locally? I've seen them at TSC but never paid any attention to them.

 

Thanks. Sounds like a pellet stove might be in my future. I work stupid long hours. This sounds like it'd take the chill off on those days I'm not around to feed the wood monster. I didn't know they ran off a stat. What keeps or going during low demand times?

Can pellet stoves use corn also? A guy I know had a wood stove in his garage and now burns corn.

Now, what do you use a chainsaw for? Opening the bags? Lol

 

I'll add to what jtakeman has said. The short answer to all of those questions is it depends.

The stove will happily eat as many pellets as you can feed it up to its ability to deposit them in the burn pot for incineration. In actuality you only want to burn as few as is required so you put the stove on a thermostat, go off and hope it has enough pellets to burn until you get back to feed it, hoppers can hold from a messily 25 pounds or so up to 1100 pounds or there about. You can also attach an auger to a storage bin and then the sky is the limit (furance and boiler owners have been known to do this). How much your stove will hold depends upon the stove you get. Mine holds about 55 pounds neatly stacked (In other words slightly more than one bag). The amount of pellets you will burn depends upon the temperature difference between what you want the inside temperature to be and what the outside temperature actually is and the sum of the various heat losses of what you are trying to heat. So one bag a day ain't going to cut it all the time and maybe not even on average for any given structure (this is known as there is no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to heating the hovel). Whether a stove can meet this need depends upon the need and what the stove can deliver.

Pellet hunting is like deer hunting, once the deer hear the shots during bird season it is a lot harder to sneak up on them, so do what the poachers do, get yours early or late. Them pellets are crafty little critters. There are spot shortages due to the rush to acquire after everyone gets the clue that yes there is winter coming up like in 2 days, so run out and get stuff to make french toast(inside joke ask around). There are still a few that actually plan for winter all year long and can take a nap instead of rushing to a store to find the shelves are bare.

Pellets generally have to travel a fair distance to get to where they will be sold, if the place that sells them doesn't place their orders in time then their supply is likely to suffer, then we have the transportation system, it doesn't work well with storms and other inconveniences. Folks on here and elsewhere have been noting pellet supply issues but not all have encountered them.