Found these pellets today at a local Ace hardware store in southern PA.. Grabbed (5) bags to test burn. Wasn't real keen on how the store was storing these pellets. They were under the store front overhang, prior to entering the store front, uncovered. It has been rainy here in PA the last (2) days. A store employee was helping me with loading of them, so I did get some of the top bags that were kind of drizzly wet bags, but not soaked as though they were rained directly on. Since I clean my pellets before putting them in stove, when I got home I cleaned all (5) bags, to get the pellets out of bags and see if they were not wet. After cleaning bags of pellets, I store them in a 44 gallon rubber maid style containers w/lids. A 44 gallon container will hold (5) bags. 1st impressions were: they seem like a decent pellet. The pellets ranged in size from 1/4" to 1" long. The inside of the bags smelt like fresh cut 2x4's. There was very little fines in bag & not real dusty when pouring them from bag. I attached some pictures for viewing. I did unload hopper & load these in to burn. Don't know if I will burn tonight or not, it has been warm here in southern PA, the last couple days. But sure to be burning later in the week. I will give an update to how they burn after I burn a bag or 2 here this week. Enjoy!
Interesting packaging. It looks like it was done with a Rethceif vertical bagger. Best Value Vff | Wood, Pellets, Seeds, Feed | Rethpack Vf…
UPDATE: Pellets burned great. Produced a med fine gray ash, but not anymore than any other hardwood pellet. Only negative was, they produced low heat. I NEVER burn off of low setting. Usually the house is 75 to 80 degrees. It has not been really cold around here yet, ( mid 30's at night, 40's thru day). These pellets burning on low kept house around 71 to 72 degrees & not really cold yet. Ran it a night on setting 3 out of 5, and only got house to around 74 to 75 degrees, it should have been smoking hot in here. This is only down fall to these pellets. No heat!!
Whenever I have gotten straight hardwoods, they have been in non-perforated bags, so moisture isn't an issue unless the bag is torn. My P61a love hardwoods but those probably aren't available in my area. If I see any I'll pick up a couple of bags to see if I get the same experience as you. You might try mixing them in with a blend mix to see if that helps.
6 bags into the ton of Hallmarks and they are basically the same as any other box store hardwood, alot of long pellets though at 1- 1/2" or so.
