Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Another happy customer

 

And all from different areas , which says to me quality is consistent

 

Bought a couple of bags of Chows and a bag of FSU today at HD for $5.18 a bag. I had bought a few bags of TSC blue bags last week which according to our thread are Green supremes and I'm not feeling them. Lots of ash which the E2 is not fond of.

Doggy

 

Hell, I think Goodell is trying to decide who wins.....

 

Spent my weekend doing the unexpected. My honeys son got a steel dog runner lead caught in her snow blower the last time it was used (a month ago) and being a typical teen, he put it away without saying anything

Well she found out Friday night around 6pm when she fired it up, engaged the auger and all helz broke loose...among other stuff. 8 inches of heavy wet chit and no snowblower. She tried to take it apart but couldnt-I give her a lot of credit as she went in the same direction I would have without knowing the correct way.

I found out around 9pm Friday after I had cleaned up here and was talking with her. By this time, she had calmed down and her son was heading out with a shovel to give him a strong reminder and clean it up himself by hand. She wasnt mad that it happened, heck it could happen to anyone. It was the "I forgot to tell you" that pizzed her off. We could have fixed it when it was warmer and before any storms and probably without parts or taking the damm thing apart.

Well, I went down there Sat morning and she and I disassembled the blower, removed the auger assembly and got out the hack saw to cut the cable in 3 spots before it would completely untangle-this thing was wrapped tight around both the input and auger shafts as in a way that was pulling the augers in towards the gear box . Off to the small engine repair shop for parts. Luckily the gear box wasnt damaged...whew....and there were a few bushings and a few spacers damaged on the auger shaft. They had the bushings but not the spacers so off to NAPA with hopes....nope not there ether for the spacers. Off to Ace Hardware and bought the closest size nylon washers that matched thickness and used a round file to make the inner diameter work...poof, MacGiver to the rescue !!

Got the beast back together and it worked like a charm !! Fixed for 16 bucks in bushings, shear pins, make shift washers and a days work.

 

Dex I think you're going to really like the LaCrete's but unfortunately you won't find them at $199 anywhere.....at least not for 50 bags.

 

He learned a lesson , don't cover up admit that you may have F ukked up ,parents 1st reaction maybe WTF , but we calm down quickly and it's all good .
Several days after the fact , with the I forgot BS line Not so good , just my 2 cents

 

Same here. I run my stove on my Honda 2500 watt with no problems.

 

Unless they are water logged, you can't go wrong with those for $199 Buy, buy, buy.....lol I'd be surprised to see pellets again for $199 any time soon.

 

I believe the Harmans shut themselves down when on a UPS because the sense the modified sine wave. A conventional genny is a bit different. Also, if the UPS is pure sine wave, like the ones I have the Harmans wouldn't notice a thing.

 

I'm happy for everyone able to get pellets at $199 but I don't see that happening up here. Just in case though I bought 4 bags of Inferno Gold today at $5.18. If they are any good, and Gbreda says they are, if the price does drop I'll be all over them.

 

I'm thinking about buying a 1000 watt Honda inverter and dedicate it to the stove and use the 2500 watt to power the rest of the house. I just need to scrape up the extra cash.

 

Hard to find a better quality unit than that Honda

 

I bought my 2500 during the ice storm from hell that we had in '98. The genny still starts on the first or second pull. Other than an occasional oil change and new spark plug, I've had it serviced once, and that was last year.

 

I wasn't aware that Harman's shut themselves down on a UPS. That's not all bad if no one is home and it shuts down normally. Better than losing power and having a smoldering fire filling the house full of smoke.