What Are Your Unique Uses For Pellets and Pellet Byproducts ?

Pellet bags make great packing for shipping EBAY stuff, works better than crumbled news paper

Hey rickwai, you just gave me a great idea. My bags can be used as shipping material for our safety shoes!!

The plastic overwrap bag i use to cover tractors in the barn, keeps barn dust away, basically using like a tarp.

Pellet bags, garbage bags in the garage

i use pellets to fuel my wood gassifier. i use the large pallet bags to cover my vintage flywheel diesel engines. i use the 40 lb plastc bags for trash bags. i use the ashes to fill in holes the dog has dug in the yard.

btw, if i bought something off ebay and it came covered in pellet dust from the pellet bags, id be a bit peeved. might want to seal that item up somehow.

I keep a bag of pellets in the back of my car also. They work out great for traction in snow or ice if you get stuck. Ash - Throw in garden, Bags - I put out with our trash recycables, Pallets - go to my father inlaw, he burns them in his outside boiler. I also clean my pellets before I burn them in my stove. I run them thru a cleaner attached to a 16 gallon shop vac. All the fines ( dust & real small pieces) that get collected in shop vac, they work out great for ice on sidewalks & driveway, it doesn't melt the ice, but gives good traction.

I put my ashes in with fertilizer in the spring, use some bags for trash and recycle materials, and store about 15 bags across the back seat of my truck as ballast for plowing

The fines and pellets that have gotten wet are good for traction in the driveway. Stove ash that's spread on the lawn is good for it.

I use the fines and the occasional wet pellets as mulch for my blueberries. The plastic bags are reused as garbage bags and I spread the ashes in the yard for fertilizer. The pallets are cut up and burnt as firewood in the fire pit.

rickwai said:

Pellet bags make great packing for shipping EBAY stuff, works better than crumbled news paper

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amen on that..roll them up!

Yep, use the bags for kitty sh!tty clean up.

Pallets to build stuff or cut up for firewood or burn whole.

As for fines, I don't have to screen/sift.

Ash goes in the yard, in the areas that have fruit trees or a future garden (right now we just support a local csa instead).
Bags get stashed for future use. Usually used kitty litter, as our local transfer station likes anything clay related kept out of the compactor.
Pallets get stacked up for future use (bon fires/scrap wood?)

I use the big bags that cover a ton, to cover my deck furniture. They work great. I used to haul the set in and out of my cellar. It was a pain plus it clogged up my cellar.

Tom C.

I use the 40# bags as weed block under anything I don't want weeds to grow thru.
Veggie gardens, walkways, crushed stone borders, etc.

Ashes I dump on top of the compost pile and mix it in when necessary.

Pallets I cut up and use for either camp fire wood or woodworking projects.
You'd be surprised at some of the good wood that goes into some (overseas mostly) pallets.

I save 1 Pallet cover cut up carefully as a quick over tarp for things in my pick up bed.
I don't mind if it gets cut up or wind torn. And it does a great job of quick protection.

I burn everything that is in the bag in my stove so no fines/sawdust externally collected.
I'm a dump it in and burn it type.

---Nailer---

I use the bags for trash and recyclables, haven't dumped the ash out of my vac yet so I don't know what I'll use that for.

I treat the ash like lime for the grass. I also do most of what others do as well.

My unique thing is saving the pellets that would be used for traction-kitty litter-ect. I offer a free removal service and cart them home for disposal in my stove. Sometimes I might even pay a low fee just to score them. Why waste em when my stove can burn them. Simple? ;-)

i am a contractor and love the bags. they can be filled with broken concrete tile etc, pretty tough stuff.. i have stacks of them in each work vehicle. ill never run out, they are super strong and free! i am a bag pig,i never junk them empty.

ray