If the different color indicates that it may have more or less Fir than other batches, by definition that would be a different pellet. Funny how that works........
Ah...no IHATEPROPANE The wood fibre that Okanagan Platinums is make from is SPF...Spruce Pine Fir...its an actual lumber grade...Google it. The blonde pellet is that is normally seen is because it is usually made up from a high percentage of pine and a very small % of fir...getting a higher % of fir will have a different color change and depending on how it is dried.....making a pellet is like baking a cake....change one thing and you change the outcome What I sell and every other manufacture of wood pellet sell is energy in a bag What we get judged by is the amount of heat the pellets produce and how much ash is left over....another words, how hot and how clean.....how well a certain pellet works in your stove....which is why some pellets work better in some stoves over others.....no such thing as the perfect pellet Color has zero to do with how a pellet will perform....that is just in the eye of the buyer....
Doug, I have been burning pellets from that general region of Canada since 2000(pinnacles). Never seen a bag that had anything but the blonde pellets. One color oddity was scorched pellets from the hot dies. If you snapped them they were still blonde in the center. May not mean chit, But a die hard BC softwood burner is going to notice this just as I did. One is certainly going to assume that the plant in Upton might be mixing in the stuff your getting form Georgia. Expect some to do some squawking. I know I know, Don't mean beans and your stuff is gonna sell and sell some more. Just saying this isn't what the experienced burner is going to expect . Just my $0.02, Carry on!
Squak away..... The Platinums come from BC The Gold come from GA The Douglas Fir come from OR Assume what you want....these are the facts....believe what you want....your stove doesn't care what color they are...or if they are a hardwood or a softwood...if they come from Canada or the north pole...what matters are the results you get and that is what is important...this is heating fuel for Goodness sakes, not world peace....
Ahhh, Doug, can you actually read what you write? Look at your quote. If there are different percentages of fiber, in this case more Fir, the pellets will be different. May be negligible, but the difference is there. Question, why would you add a fiber that fetches a 10% premium just because you had it laying around? Doesn't make sense? Could you explain?
How do you figure the fiber is worth 10% more?....Unless you have enough to make a proper run of something, a lot of times the fiber will get mixed together, depending on how much fiber is on hand, how much space you have to store it etc, but since this is all SPF (softwood) adding more fir isn't getting away from the grade...it will just make the color a little different sometimes. New dryer and presses...you will see the color become more constant over the next few weeks as everything gets broken in and the cooking times worked out...
When you said the Fir was from Oregon, I thought it may be Douglas Fir, is this correct or do you use other species of Fir that are less desirable? Edit: you said it was Douglas Fir. I said a 10% premium because they cost at least 10% more than other pellets. Now I don't know what your cost is, could be more, less or the same as other fibers. But it sells for more at the retail end. So if it doesn't cost you more than retailers are marking it up more making more money. ( which I am not against or trying to argue the fact, just curious) or it is costing you more money because it is indeed more expensive, which seems foolish to just use up because it's around.
Those darker pellets must be inferno's...just to keep the stove from going nuclear. I seem to remember a discussion on the "other" site about Mfr's static charging the bags to keep fines in...maybe not Iduuno
Propane....Douglas Fir is a species all by themselves. The ones we bag come from OR...and only use one source. The fir we get from our suppliers in BC could be 3 or 4 different kinds of fir...some of which could be Douglas Fir, but we don't usually ever get enough of it to run it separate and if we do, it normally gets sold locally. This fir would fall under the "SPF" grade of lumber, which normally is very heavy to lodgepole pine. 100% Douglas Fir does cost and will sell for a premium unless you get just a small bit of it and then it's not worth the extra work to keep it separate or can't make a run that would be worthwhile with it.... But OR is Douglas Fir country and where the very best comes from....
Perfect, I do realize there are different kinds of Firs.....I was just trying to get an insite in to what goes on to your SPF pellets, specifically the Fir end. Thanks.
Sorry for the quality of this picture but I can't get to my Platinums on account of they are still beneath a load of Golds and Minute Mans. The picture may be tough to see, so I will tell you the Platinums I got all have that traditional very light "blonde" color. No variation at all, they look just like I've seen in prior years. Until now, that was the only way I had ever seen them.
