I live in Eddington. Bought a Breckwell P2700 last year, it burned really well for me, but wouldn’t heat my bedrooms (offset from the main living area over the garage) so I got an enviro mini for that area with my rebate check, will get it installed later this summer. When it’s installed, I won’t burn any oil for heating my home, now I need to figure out something for my hot water.
Glad to hear about the pellet association, I will be contacting Al later this week.
Newbie here, love the forum and even though I have owned a Harman Accentra insert for 2 years, I have learned a ton on this site in the last few minutes!! But, still I have lots of questions…
Am having 2 problems here in the Augusta area 2nd to demand for pellet stoves & pellets. Normally I deal with Rocky’s Stove Shoppe, pre-order my pellets, get a good price, and delivery into my garage. 2nd to high demand prices are up AND he is not offering delivery this year. His guys are too busy installing stoves. I am wondering about other local options (with delivery).
2nd would like to purchase a second small pellet stove for the family room (The Accentra insert is in the living room) to get my oil bill down to next to nothing. But, Rocky is backordering/scheduling installing into November already. :-( Thinking of shopping elsewhere, and finding a subcontractor to install. Thoughts? Accentra vs. Quadra-Fire Castile?
1. How does the Maine Pellet Stove Owners Association thing work? (for purchasing pellets)
2. How does it work if you buy pellets in bulk from MESYS? Do they sell/rent a storage bin? Dimensions of the bin? Normally stack 4 tons pallets in my garage and wonder how this would work if in bulk?
3. Other options for high quality pellets to be delivered in the Augusta area?
4. If I purchase a second stove elsewhere---say from a NH dealer, anyone have experience with using “Field to Flue” installer, or other contracter to install?
5. Ideas for an alternate pellet stove dealer?
Sorry to drop in with so many questions...but I am starting to feel the pressure to get my pellets for fall. And, I really need to decide if I am going to “lock-in” and pre-buy my usual 500 gallons of oil (at 4.79/gallon) vs. plunk down 3600.00 for another pellet stove. sigh.
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Would like to hear more about the pellet stove owners association.
In the meanwhile, I did discover that Knight’s Farm Supply in Augusta, ME 626-5715 is taking orders for July delivery. Corinth at 229/ton and Energex at 245/ton. 20 dollars for delivery. If I had really wanted the NEWP pellets Damriscotta Hardware just increased the price to 300/ton plus 2.25/mile delivery. I didn’t want the NEWP pellets THAT badly. I opted for 6 tons of the Energex, and Knight’s only charged me 10 dollars for delivery since we live within city limits and close to the store. Thought that was nice.
Rocky’s Stove Shop is not delivering pellets right now. By appearances at the store today and the long wait list for installation--his guys are too busy doing sales/cleaning/installations. They still carry the Cubex for 250/ton. But, I noticed a big difference in my supply of Cubex this year as compared to last years supply. Much more ash and cleaning/gumming up this year with the Cubex as compared to last. Hope the Energex are ok.
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I got mine!!!!
I do not see this message anywhere on their site
I just looked at it again maybe you need to clear your cache?
TRY KNIGHTS FARM SUPPLY IN RICHMOND. I JUST PLACED AN ORDER AT THEIR AUGUSTA STORE .PELLETS SHOULD BE DELIVERED SOMETIME IN JULY. THE AUGUSTA STORE SELLS ENERGEX AND CORINTH PELLETS..GOOD LUCK
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I got mine!!!!
I do not see this message anywhere on their site
I just looked at it again maybe you need to clear your cache?
YOU are correct. However, you can still order from PelletSales.com from there.
Still looking for a good source of pellets in the Bunswick/Topsham or Lewiston/Auburn areas.
Seems like plenty of sources north (Waterville and Bangor) and south, but hard to find around here.
Lowes and HD do not sell them anymore.
Aubachons has them for $280 per ton. (not delivered)
Stove shop in Auburn has them at $260/ton. (not delivered)
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I bought ten tons at Lowes in Auburn yesterday for $236.50 per ton plus $59.00 delivery to Lewiston.
Hey guys,
I confirm that Lowe’s in Auburn definately has pellets(although you won’t see them out front anymore because they’re afraid of them being stolen). I was in there today talking with a Vinny who was very helpful. $236.50 plus $59 for delivery to Lewiston. Here’s the best part though: They said as long as I order them now they’ll hold off delivering them until September or October so I don’t have to take up all that room on my screened in porch until I’m done using it for the season. They were the Greene Team brand, a hardwood pellet. They are located in Garads Fort, PA. Anyone ever burn these before? The salesman said he burned these last year with good luck or so he says. Said they used to buy from a grass seed(?) company(I believe it’s Pennington) in the past and had terrible results with those so they went back to the Greene Team brand. I opted to go to Lowes because I just don’t have the time or the type of truck it takes to transport these pellets. I really don’t want to be handling these bags anymore than I need to.
Mark
Well, I finally got my pellets today. I ordered them from lowes 2 weeks ago and my original intent was to have them delivered in Sept. but the more I got to thinking about it, I didn’t think that was such a good idea. I just had a feeling that when Sept. came my pellets weren’t gonna be available or there was gonna be such a back log that I wouldn’t get them until Nov. or later. SO I went to Lowes and told them that I wanted my pellets delivered ASAP so they put me down for the 24th of June. Great I said and I walked out back where they were kept and lo and behold there was only about 7 pallets of the Greene Team brand (the ones I wanted) and about 30 Pallets of the Natures Fuel (Pennington) brand which I certainly didn’t want. I went back in the store and told the manager that I didn’t want the Pennington I wanted what I originally ordered, Greene Team. “Oh yeah” he says, “no problem. We’ll put your name on them so they won’t get delivered to someone else.” So we walked ouside in the RAIN with a little piece of paper with my order number on it which promptly became illegible. Sigh. So I’m not too happy at this point. But I leave and go home and make my own sign with my name on it, go back to Lowes and put them in a ziplock and put them in the shrink wrap covering. I know what your thinking, you are nuts for doing all this. I know but I just know that when the 24th came, I wasn’t gonna see Greene Team pellets unloaded and I wasn’t going to be happy.
It’s not over. I’m getting paranoid as time was going by today because I can just see the truck driver pulling out back of Lowes, “load 6 pallets of pellets will ya Vinny?”. Vinny doesn’t really care which pellets he loads and all the Greene Team pellets are gone. The 24th comes and I’m out of luck. I call a friend of mine who has a 10,000# trailer and we go and get them ourselves. I give him some money for his troubles and they’re sitting in my garage. End of story.
Moral of the story: be carefull when you order from Lowes. They’re gonna give you what they got. Pellets are pellets to them. Oh yeah, and they’re not taking anymore orders. They’re done. They’re already backlogged something like 18,000 bags.
Sorry guys. Just wanted you to feel my frustration.
There is a place on Rt 2 in Palmyra called central maine wood pellets, They are in the old telpower building their # is 938-2273. They were closed when I passed so I did not get any prices. So somebody could call tomorrow. Good luck Dan
Well I just bought stove #2...Harman Accentra from St Albans Stove Shop. Only drawback is it will not be available until late Fall. At least I have 1 now wait until the other shows up. This may be overkill but we are going to be warm. 1 in my cellar and 1 on the main floor....and if all goes right..NO OIL.
Just heard back from Kittery Ace hardware.
They secured “several hundred” tons for August-October delivery and they’re selling them for 250 per ton with free local delivery.
The guy (Matt) took a little too long to get back to me, so I wound up paying a little more than that from anotehr place in Berwick (244 plus 30 flat rate for delivery)
The sky isn’t falling yet. No doubt pellets will likely dry up in January for a month or two, but i’m encouraged by the way the supply is flowing right now.
250 per ton is exactly what Ace charged last year.
Lets see if the Gubbermint can act fast enough to push oil prices down...which will help to curb demand for pellets and stoves!
Drill, Drill, Drill!!!!
I mentioned in another thread that Aubuchon is having a sale on pellets beginning (I think) June 27th for $250 per ton. You can order up to two tons per week.
The warehouse has plenty of them, and they are delivered within a week.
They are Energex. Softwood and hardwood are the same price.
I agree. The prices are encouraging given the demand. I don’t think it’s fair to compare the price in June to last year’s mid-winter price, but I’m not complaining.
I am in the Waterville area and would be interested in being part of a truckload buy. I have 3.5 tons already. Home Depot in Waterville were 224.00 a ton. I am looking for 4 tons more.
Could someone tell me how to get in touch with the Maine Wood Pellet Owners Association? I have looked and looked to no avail. I greatly appreciate the information.
Some of the story “Allen Nygren is a former Bangor firefighter who now operates his own emergency response training business in Hermon primarily in the colder months. Now that it’s warm, he can do something else with the space at this shop, store pellets. And he’s decided to sell them at cost to help people save money this winter.”
“If you would like to inquire into purchasing some of these pellets, or volunteer to help Nygren keep this venture running longer, you can call 848-3434.”
I worked with Al on Bangor for awhile; he’s a very sharp guy. We talked about this the other day in fact, he told me he was doing it to save money and didn’t mind storing the pellets when the semi showed up for the other associates to pick the up. He’s doing it this year, he wanted to buy a few tractor trailer loads with a few buddies to save money and it’s grown. He doesn’t mind though, anything to screw the big oil. If this messes with his other business he won’t be doing this again, but if the Association works and people volunteer some time he might be doing it again. Of course its best to talk strait to the man himself.
Just so you know I dont know how the purchase works or anything, I just know you have to be ready to haul it yourself.
I mentioned in another thread that Aubuchon is having a sale on pellets beginning (I think) June 27th for $250 per ton. You can order up to two tons per week.
Skowhegan Aubuchon has sold out of the Energex already. But they’ve made arrangements with a local mill to get a stream of high quality pellets. I didn’t get a price, but I think its similar.
Just ordered 4 tons from Dysarts. I picked the 80% hardwood mix they get from Athens. This is my first purchase of pellets for my new Harman, is an 80% mix a good place to start?
Also for a note, because I wanted the supersack 1 ton bags I should get it in a month. Athens delivers to Dysarts once a month and they start calling down the list. I guess the 1 ton sack list is alot shorter then the 40 pound bag list. I believe the 40 pound bag list goes out 3-4 months.
plus 2.25/mile delivery. I didn’t want the NEWP pellets THAT badly. I opted for 6 tons of the Energex, and Knight’s only charged me 10 dollars for delivery since we live within city limits and close to the store. Thought that was nice.
with my name on it, go back to Lowes and put them in a ziplock and put them in the shrink wrap covering. I know what your thinking, you are nuts for doing all this. I know but I just know that when the 24th came, I wasn’t gonna see Greene Team pellets unloaded and I wasn’t going to be happy.
