Roll call...what are you burning right now?

I hope you got some good ones. I had some that were hot and some that were all ash. I have 11 bags of ash left that I'll burn in the spring.

 

Blazers here.

 

So far they are doing fine

 

LaCrete just hit the hopper

 

AWF White pine.

I usually run more generic cheaper stuff, but I didn't want to take the stove down to do anything to it. Just wanted to pour 'em in and burn 'em up. I would not have felt as comfortable doing that 24-7 for three days straight on Green Supreme.

 

Lignetics here, only have a Ace for supply in a 40 mile radius.

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Vermont

I must have found the sweet spot on the P43 settings cause the past 18 days it's been running great, 77 in stove area, keeps the rest of the downstairs at 73, upstairs at 70, even when it's below zero out. Glass has one small area where it has a slight white coating, rest is still clean. When the wife asks "is it too warm in here" I just say "go outside for a minute and come back in, it'll feel fine".

Sam

 

Elite's with a sprinkle of corn, maybe more than that if you want to be technical about it
-18.4*F outside so the shack better be warm in the morning otherwise I'll get the

 

Hey Dan, I pay $0.10 per KW/h. According to a local energy chart, my gas would be 1/2 the cost of this or $0.05. I believe my pellet fuel is costing me around $0.07.

 

Same here , a bit more ash than the softies not a deal breaker .

 

A nice pellet , they smell Great , my only issue with them is they don't slide down in the hopper , more than once I've had one of the stoves shut down , no fuel when you open the hopper there's 10 - 15 lbs. stuck in the corners . When I burn these I make sure that I'm going to be around to stir the hopper a few times .

 

Inferno Golds in the P43. TSC MWP hardwood blend in the P61a

 

Ironstones or AWF hardwoods, which ever I feel like grabbing off the stack

 

And this would be why I use pellets (which I did not pay as much as shown) instead of propane.

 

Back to LaCrete's in the P68 and NW Super Spruce in the P43 . Not entirely impressed with the Oakie Plats was kind of bummed when he offered me 4 bags as he hit a few bags trying to grab the pallet of SS, I asked do you have any of them for sale and his reply was no they are all sold (probably 8 ton). Guess it was a good thing . Heat was good kinda ashy and a tad dirty but the stove was cranking all night long .

 

Burning Blazers for the past few weeks. This morning was -13 F ! Also have the new Jotul Black Bear cranking along with Red oak splits.

 

I always like to point out, that, for instance, on your chart, it says that
Natural gas.. around $1.10/therm

I don't care what the cost of the gas is,
I care about what the TOTAL cost is...
After all the garbage they tack on.. it is $1.66
So when you figure that factor, pellets here, even at $250, is cheaper..

Dan

 

We had -12 here last night and that’s the coldest we’ve seen so far. Fortunately today is the end of this cold snap. Starting tomorrow, it’s 30s and 40s for the next week. We even have one or two days where the overnight low is predicted to be 40s.

 

Yeah, I can totally see that. They're almost "sticky" to the touch a little. I'm assuming that's the resins that make them burn so nice. I don't care too much however since I'm in there stirring around every couple hours anyway. Just can't leave it alone. I'm the guy who can't leave the campfire alone and keeps poking at it with a stick.


My only issue with the AWF white pine (other than price and availability) is the amount of fines and broken pellet chips in the bag. I thought I was seeing a lot of pellet chips as I was loading into the stove, so I sifted about the lower two thirds of a bag and here are the results. This is the chipped up broken pellets. About a quart:




And here are the dust and fines:

 

burn it!!!