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What's your stash level???

Discussion in 'Pellet Stoves, Pellet Fireplaces, Pellet Furnaces' started by DexterDay, Feb 18, 2014.

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  1. jtakeman

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    I too shut mine off this morning before I left for work. House was a bit chilly when I got home because it never did get to 50ºF here. Stoves cranking now to get it warm before the boss gets home! :confused:
     
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    Same thing here....was supposed to be high 40's.......reached 39 :mad: Got home to a 58 degree house, cranked stove, reached 68 before anyone got home and avoided the skillet :)
     
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    Shut my stove down, and had an exhaust fan running. Still have the house a bit warmer than I want. First shut down, went two weeks. Glass still clean except for a haze at the top, and there was no build up of ash, (it falls into the ash pan.) I took a paint brush to the inside to brush it out, then used a screw driver to chisel out some ridges of carbon in the burn pot. Fried it back up because it is going below freezing tonight.
     
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    You guys are all wusses.. I just throw a container of bon bons next to the phone and all is well. :eek: (looks side to side for wife) i also have 3 new tons of instant heatless for 170 a ton delivered. I did not want them but at the price no brainer.
     
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    170 delivered is a pretty good deal....I would have done the same
     
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  7. jtakeman

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    I must be getting snootish, I would have only bought a ton for the fringe. Saved the other space for some AWF-PTL's or sumtin! Coarse the $170 price in my area is non existent, Best delivered dealz are over $250-ish. Stuffin with box store stuff "IS" the local deal @209/ton, But I got to fetch em myself. Never did check box store delivery rates but assume its like $50/ton or there round abouts?
     
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    Big box was $65del fee no matter if 1 ton or 10 flat rate last time I checked :)
     
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    I got 3 ton delivered last fall from HD at "No Charge". My understanding is 3 tons or more, no delivery fee.

    The way I look at it, even if it is $65, I'm going to spend that much in gas fetchin them myself.
     
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    And I only have to handle them once.
     
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    Free is a sweet deal:thumbs:
     
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    Lately I have only had room for 1 ton due to keeping up to my usage and filling as I go. I haven't let the stash run lower than 2 tons all season. If I had more room, I could do it. But only having room for around 4 or just under. And I am sitting on almost 2 tons of cold season stuff. Fetching one at a time is working out pretty well. Stash stays full and I stay happy. No low stash jitters either! :D

    As a pellet pig, I must fondle them several times a day or I just don't feel right. :drool:

    I started a new excersize routine, I've been trying to haul one pellet at a time to my hopper. This way I get to touch every one of them and it takes a lot of trips back and forth. Except the stoves eating them faster than I can. But I am getting thirstier than usual. So I usually whimp out, toss in the whole bag and then fetch a beer. :cool:
     
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    All these weather boxes that are in peoples signatures are making me depressed. :(

    I see lots of 40's and 50's. Even Thursday when they said we'd hit 50 it only got to 42, and that was at 10:30 PM or so, then the bottom fell back out again.

    Although, it isn't bad today at 30 degrees. Its the 20 MPH wind that goes along with it that sucks.
     
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    Here's my box... :D
     
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    That's more like it. 25 is all too familiar.

    I need to dig up the thread that has the instructions for adding that weather thingy to my signature.
     
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    You can do it.
     
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    I knew you liked playing with fire, but that kind of fire will get ya a knot on your noggin. ;)

    Shut mine down this morning and did a complete cleaning this afternoon, including venting.
    Burning away now so I'm not running from the skillet :D
     
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    I do that when they're naked in the hopper. Don't get that plastic distorting the feel of the real thing.:cool:
     
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    I figured you had a box!!
     
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    My box is getting colder
     
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