Lucky. Yes, with the wind and temps, unless you have a tightly insualted house, it will get cold within 6 hours. And worse than cold is worrying about pipes in crawl spaces or hidden areas that can freeze fast. See it happen year. Saw multiple burst pipes Christmas day and after once things got back towards normal.
Just heard back that Dean's stove in Plantsville has Javas, $425 ton. I'm pretty heavily stocked on pellets, not sure if somebody wants to go in and split a pallet up. I'd probably have to use the bags as furniture if I buy anymore
Yeah, she is pretty well insulated, bought a Contractor's personal home, but woke up at 2am nervous about pipes, many are wrapped. Said few gallons of gas worth getting heat,and most of the house back on track!!
The high BTU content of these coffee pellets worry me for some of the pretty stoves that already don't have enough Convection CFM to cool the stove with a lower 8K BTU wood pellet. I can't imagine what a 10K pellet will do to a little Enviro Empress or any other tiny stove with less than 200 CFM convection fan and enough heat exchanger to comp for the super pellets. IMHO, To me these are the stoves that the owner would likely jump on and only to find their poor little stove will cook itself. With the mods to my stove, I'm sure it will handle the supped up pellets as I already have tried Biochar(AKA torrefaction). Biochar had a est BTU of over 11K and the beast handled them without issues even on full on balls out wide open throttle.
Burned a few bags of the java flame pellets over the weekend. At feed rate 1, the stove body was regularly getting up to 500 degrees, as measured by the magnetic stove pipe temp gauge attached to the side of thes stove. That is pretty impressive, never seen it happen before. They definitely do produce the heat as advertised. However, the batch of java pellets I have are tiny (much smaller than typical wood pellets) so I'm sure that is playing into them feeding fast. Think I read on here somewhere were another forum member was told the java flame pellets being produced nowadays are actually the same size as regular wood pellets. Couple small items to note. Opened the stove door to scrape the pot and discovered when these pellets burn - they smell like burning hair. Also if anyone has a tendency to walk past their stove and can't resist the urge to occasionally open the hopper lid to smooth out the pellets inside - you can't do that with these, at least not with your hand - unless you like having a blackened hand. These are not something you ever want to be touching or spilling by accident either.
Story about coffee pellets Coffee Grounds Can Be Upcycled to Make Wood Pellets For Pellet Stoves — Here’s How
Back in the day, We were using a small mill to do pellets. The first guy mixed them with timothy grass and created a mess. Second go round with another friend in Middletown. We didn't get all the filters out of the mix. Just churned them in with some softwood fiber. I think the filter media (paper) is where he(we) messed up. I was working a at the shop alot and didn't always get to spend much time when he was milling the grounds. Because of that, I always thought coffee grounds were a bit ashy!! Right now I'm using paper filters for my coffee, Going to switch to a metal screen so I can dump my grounds in a bucket. Make a rack down in the basement and fab up some screens to dry the grounds. Then sprinkle the grounds into the hopper as I add pellets. I may not get much heat but it should add a bit. I may save up for a small mill so I can salvage my left over fiber, Coffee grounds and maybe some other stuff to put in the stove. Reduce waste and create some (almost) free heat!! I did a small test already with just sprinkling in some dried grounds on top of the pellets. About a pound per hopper fill added about 10 to 15ºF extra on these mediocre GS's pellets. I also have a contact at the local DD and I'll see if they can save me some grounds??
I save my coffee grounds for the yard. Just take out of maker and put filter and grounds on a plate. Next morning, scrape the dry grounds off into another plastic serving container from Chinese restaurant, hold for a few more hours till dry to put in a container. Filter gets thrown. I do 3 table spoons each day? Not a lot, but....
I heard a strange story that at this point is nothing more than gossip so I don't know if I should share it. But it's too interesting to keep. Someone told me about a salesman they were talking to that sold a lot of machines that can take ground up coffee and press it into a bean shape that's nearly identical to the original. Imagine what you will with that.
