Local Walmart has moved their piles of pellets, and now has steel racks outside to pile em high. I have to take a picture tommow. Looks like they plan on keeping them around for the long haul.
I've been buying the Timber Heats and Inferno Golds there for that price. I keep checking the HD website to see if they have come down but the site still says $5.18.
I have 2 bays of my garage like this. stack goes all the way to the back of the garage, up to the rafters. all chows. OINK!
see the black box on top of the bay? thats a motion sensor. it triggers a camera that starts texting me your picture. good luck!
Yes, I had better stock up, even if I have to tuck it away here and there. I think the retail outlets will get rid of what they have so they don't get stuck anymore than they have. I should have enough back up to get me into late spring for those occasional fires and getting rid of dampness fires.
They're OK. Not much different than MWP or FSU. Certainly worth $199. No Lowes doesn't give the vet's discount on wood pellets. I don't think HD does either, do they?
They are different now. Although I have not burned any myself the reviews are much better than they were.
I burned 4 bags of Inferno's that I bought about 10 days ago. Burned nicely with decent heat and less ash than some of the other stuff I burn. Small, uniform pellets with virtually no fines or dust in the bags. I had 2 tons delivered on Friday for next year's burning.
This is in our local rag sheet this morning: Wood pellet businesses ail as demand plummets In a stark contrast from last year, Maine's four producers are laying off workers and cutting production as consumers shift back to burning oil. The combination of low heating oil prices and a mild winter have whipsawed the state’s four wood pellet producers. A year ago, homeowners were having trouble finding bags of pellets for their stoves to combat record-cold weather, so manufacturers ramped up production. This winter, they’re laying off workers and looking at stacks of unsold pellets. “They geared up to be running at full speed,” said Bill Bell, executive director of the Maine Pellet Fuels Association. “Last winter at this time, they couldn’t make them fast enough.” The lack of demand is hurting each of the mills. The Maine Wood Pellet Co. mill in Athens shut down in early January. The plant typically has 36 workers on three shifts, producing 110,000 tons of pellets that are sold across New England. It relies on roughly 200 loggers and truckers for its wood supply. It also is building a small biomass boiler for waste heat to dry wood and sell some electricity to the regional grid. “We’re waiting now to see what the market’s going to do,” said Bob Linkletter, the company’s president. Corinth Pellets LLC let nine workers go in January and was down to 28, according to Bell. It’s operating three shifts, but only three days a week, instead of seven. Lignetics, the nation’s largest wood pellet producer, took over a mill in Strong last year as part of an expansion plan into northern New England. It supplies many big-box stores with bagged pellets. “We put a lot of pellets into the system and now are having to scale way back,” according to Jeff Allen, a Lignetics general manager. In Ashland, the Northeast Pellets mill has been running every other week. It had 14 workers, but was recently operating with two full-timers and the others “on call.” It uses sawdust from three area sawmills and is located next to a ReEnergy biomass plant. Northeast Pellets suffers from an added complication. The exchange rate has made Canadian wood pellets less expensive. That has led the University of Maine at Fort Kent, which has a biomass heating plant, to buy nearly 90 percent of its pellets – 302 tons – this winter from Canada. Bell’s trade group has called on the university to resume buying pellets in bulk from local mills. But 95 percent of Mainers who burn pellets have stoves and buy the fuel in bags, according to Bill Strauss, president of FutureMetrics in Bethel and an expert on wood fuels. He calculated the equivalent cost of heating a home in the Northeast with wood pellets and oil. In 2008, bulk pellets were about half the cost, when oil heat spiked to $4,404. Earlier this winter, oil heat was $1,725, while pellet heat was $2,174. So homeowners who keep their oil furnaces for backup are using them more, to save money. “We have a lot of garages with tons of pellets that aren’t getting burned,”
Same here. Within the next week, ill be stocked to the brim for 16-17. And my brother is 50% to his 16-17 total. So here are two people who will be buying less than 50% of usual this coming season. Its going to get worse before better.
