Easy Heats... Those are definitely the worst pellet in my area. Every bag of the 2 ton I had was filled with plastic injected pellets. If you added water to a bowl of pellets they looked like lucky charms in 5 minutes. And the heat? Well.... It was not that good. They burned, but my Quad 1200 burned anyting.
Worst ever was the weed seed pellets that I burned. Filled the stove with ash in just one bag. Heat was poor too. Local farmer had a pellet making set up, and was trying to get rid of weed seeds left over from cleaning seed wheat. Worst conventional pellets were probably Freedom fuel and Eco Flame. Freedom fuel produced 150 degree air from the stove...at full blast!! Eco Flame were so poor that I thought my CPM was broken when I bought it. I did the test burn in the garage on a cool day, and they didn't produce enough heat to kick the room air blower on!
I was embarrassed to admit it. No, actually we didn't try them last year. Hopefully they've improved.
So far the Okie Doug Firs take the top prize. Blazers were nice too. We haven't had any other Doug Firs in our market. La Cretes and OKPs are neck and neck for 2nd place. There's a handful that I wouldn't pass up as a customer including but not limited to OKDs, Lig Golds (Forest Pride), PTL softies, Turmans, Sets, White Lightening (as well as their Country Boy pellets), EZB Yellow Pine, Plats, Goldens. We try to introduce new softie pellet brands to our customers that they've never had an opportunity to burn in the past. But we're not shy about telling folks that there's a few nice brands out there that we just can't get our hands on. With that being said, we carry pellets that we like to burn and let the market dictate whether we keep them or bring in something new.
Cool, Thanks for sharing those recommendations / your experience, me being a pellet 'newbie' here, this is much appreciated.
my expirience with O'Malley's was great heat but really left exceptionally Hard flat carbon deposits in the burnpot...also I think they we're the longest pellets in the Universe although not a problem for a Harman free standing..Ocassional crunch/Bang/crunch/Bang ..
my expirience with O'Malley's was great heat but really left exceptionally Hard flat carbon deposits in the burnpot. Lot of vigerous scrapeing....also I think they we're the longest pellets in the Universe although not a problem for a Harman free standing..Ocassional crunch/Bang/crunch/Bang ..
yeah... my PC re-booted as I posted that and without checking to see if it landed I posted it again..
