Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Yes, it is Fujitsu. It is a couple of months past 2 years of use.

 

I believe that I read somewhere that mini splits in general are more efficient at AC than heat. When I ran mine for heat winter of 2021/22, it ran about neck and neck with pellets, assuming $5/bag (and my making an educated guess as to how many bags I saved). I did like the more stable heat. But at the same time, I still burned plenty of pellets during colder/windy weather.

 

I didnt use the mini splits for heat last year due to higher elect costs.

Another balancing act this year with oil taking the front seat, pellets being used as I can and maybe the mini splits as well.

Although pellets are moving towards the back of the list yearly now due to health issues (ever increasing workload and stress at work doesnt help this area)) and price of pellets but still dont want to leave the better heat of fire behind.

 

Felt bad for the kid who delivered the pellets about 30 min ago. Shows up just as a thunderstorm was hitting. Torrential rain, lightning. Kid didn't have a rain coat, threw some blanket he had in the truck over himself (forklift has no top). Guess he knows Caddyshack cause when I said the line "I don't think the heavy stuff will come down for a while yet" he laughed and gave the thumbs up.
My coat and clothes were so soaked I had to throw them in the wash cause they'd need a spin cycle to get all the water out.

sam

 

I didn't run the MS last year at all for heat because of that exact same reason.

In other news, I've been dithering for months on getting a pallet jack. When I got the 6 tons from HD 2 springs ago, I didn't pay extra for pallet jack service so they could only get a couple of pallets in my garage using their fork truck (my garage door is only 6.5' tall). I had to manually move each bag of the other 4 tons. Since I didn't use much for pellets last year (as a mild year plus I already had 3 tons in the basement) I still have 3 open pallets of pellets next to the outside wall and I will be using them up first. Without a pallet jack, that means I am left with the 2 unopened pallets still sitting in the middle of the garage (which is only 13' wide anyway).

That is dammed inconvenient - and has been inconvenient for this entire time. I finally quit dithering and hit the "buy" button one day before my HD 10% coupon expired. Should be here at the end of the month.

 

Power or manual?

 

Manual

 

For anyone needing pellet stove parts, Wood Pellet Stove Parts and Grill Replacement Parts is having a week by week % off sale the next few weeks.

Week 1 (8/9 - 8/16): 30%

Week 2 (8/17 - 8/23): 25%

Week 3 (8/24 - 8/30): 20%

DISCOUNT CODE
PREHEATING2023

sam

 

While out and about the past couple days have seen that gas prices have gone up $.30/gal over the past 3 weeks. Most places around me (SE NH) are $3.69/gal where they were $3.39 3 weeks ago. Saw a few at $3.79 and one at $3.86. Most home heating oil prices are around $3.50-$3.60 currently.

sam

 

They actually went up .25-.30 over a 5–7 day period a few weeks ago on rte 125 in the Rochester/Barrington area.

.20 happened overnight.

 

That is what happened here too. It's ranging from $3.74 to $3.79 but it is bound to go even higher with school starting soon, and of course the holiday coming up.

Cheapest place for HHO is at $3.78 - cash price (that is an individual that only delivers, have no idea where he is getting it at). Propane at my provider is at $4.21, which is only 6 cents more expensive than what I paid in July (my prices are higher because I only get 100-120 gal/year)..

 

The last time I bought oil, while I was waiting for the mini splits to be installed, it was $5.00/gallon. I'm not going to miss that .

 

That's all four of my cats added together weight wise

 

He sounds like a sweetheart!!

I'm sure mom and dad will coddle him during treatments. Hoping it all goes easily

 

Hopefully those were caught early enough that the treatment is fairly gentle on him. When I had dogs, they were on Ivermectin once a month to dispatch of hook worms. Hook worms stay in the soil, so they just reinfect dogs over and over. Ivermectin was much cheaper than the hookworm meds. Bonus was it took care of heartworms too.

 

All I ever used on Socks was Interceptor Plus.......it treats all 5 major types of worms, and she always got a clean bill of health from the vet.