Bring back headley!!! Your old avator made me watch blazing saddles. Im 40 yrs old & last saw it as a kid on VHS.. Holy chit that movie get even funnier over 20 years!!!!
Are you sure? I burned a few bags of weed seed pellets a year ago, and the ash was out of control. This picture was taken after I cleaned the stove and ran a single bag through it. One bag. They were cheap, but not cheap enough.
I know exactly zero about pellet stoves other than if I were to get one in the future it would be a multifuel or furnace. I am however in the raw material supply end of the pellet biz and know what they want for feedstock yet have never talked shop about pellet quality requirements and the why of it. Only ever seen a pellet stove close up at a friends house once. Been on this and "that" forum for along time and always hear about ash content problems. Other than a multifuel ,,, why haven't stove manufacturers developed a solution to this ?????????
The solution is better quality pellets but they cost more money. Most of us are too cheap to pay the extra, so we burn a lower quality pellet and then b$tch about them not being as good as the "good" stuff.
When wood pellets were first developed they were cheaper than dirt. Many didn't have an issue doling out for the stove because they could expect huge savings over the fosil fuels. If an alternative fuel that would save the average user 30% on the heating bill and not much of an investment to use it. You could see a new revolution. Without a rather large savings? I doubt things would gain any ground though!!
I love a good price point, but I wouldn't put them in my p68 without Harman's blessing! Should this pellets survive EPA rulings, you can be sure there will be stoves sold to use them. I've seen some other pellets being considered similar to those but was told they were for commercial use only. These said for pellet stoves. Very different.
jtakeman, schoondog, and myself burned grass/wood and all grass pellets a few years back. Similar results on the ash......instead of doing a once-a-week cleaning, we were cleaning every 2-3 days. We figured the price would have to be at $150/ton or lower to make it worthwhile. We also burned 100% coffee pellets.....the results were surprising.
