Coastal Farm and Ranch had a 15% off sale for everything in the store and another $20 off a ton of Douglas Fir pellets. Bear Mountains are made in Oregon about 3 hours by car south of me and they're a good premium pellet. In fact, it's one of the pellets I burn regularly. I was able to get a pretax price of $177 per ton! The total came to $193. That's like $3.86 for a bag of premium Douglas Fir pellets and it typically takes me 1 bag to heat my 2000 square foot house comfortably. Pinch me.
Wow that just shows how much trucking and the middle man add to the price to get them here to the East Coast double what you paid .
I can get them off-season usually from $210-$220 a ton pretax. Some places sell them as high as $240. This was a great deal.
There is way more railways costs than anything...the trucking depends on how far from Upton MA you are in the east and the middleman charges are much less than you think....and yet it's almost impossible to keep them in stock this time of year....so somebody must like them.
Somebody with way more $$ than me , I have no doubt they are a very fine pellet , just not in my budget .
Are those Douglas Fir? I will say -- DF pellets are the bomb. In that sense, we are lucky living to be out west and have DFs. But if I had a choice of buying a good, local pellet at $240 vs. $390 for a true DF pellet, I'd buy the good, local pellet over and over again.
No they are southern yellow pine , they are a really nice pellet , yes more ash than DF's but for $150 a ton less , I'm over it , not a problem for me , more $$ for Beer and other things .
A person typically installs a pellet stove to save some $$$ on heating their home. Then they feed it the most expensive pellet fuel money can possibly buy. These days, unless the only other option is electric, they are ultimately paying more than the heat source they replaced to save money on in the first place. Seems like that kinda defeats the purpose. Oh well, people are funny like that. Tell you what, the TSC down the road is finding it impossible to keep MWPs in stock...somebody must like them too.