http://www.mainewoodspelletco.com/products-supersacks.html
I'd love to buy this way (better for the environment, as the bags are such a waste).
I'd love to buy this way (better for the environment, as the bags are such a waste).
Any other manufacturer's offer the "1 ton SuperSack" ?
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Utilitrack
Feeling the Heat
Dont let the size of the picture fool you theres two thousand pounds sitting there. The handles are for fork lifts...lol.
Utilitrack said:
It will just sit in my garage anyway, and then I have a giant sack for fun use in the future.
Think of all the things you could do with a giant sack:
5 person sack races!
bag your leaves, and your neighbors too!
dispose of a body!
Your own personal 1 person pool!
whlago
Feeling the Heat
Yup thats what im waiting for. I wish I lived near the Somerset plant I would just take my bulk liquid tote bins there and say fill er up please and drive home, use as needed. 40 lbs bags suck when your dealing with 5 tons at a time.
These are the pellets referred to as MWPs, correct? In that case, I may be in and see if SIBs or some other dealer might be willing to order some this way.
SmokeyTheBear
Minister of Fire
movemaine said:
I don't think that Steve (sib) has the means to move one of those sacks at a customer's location. Send him an email.
SmokeyTheBear
Minister of Fire
movemaine said:
Yes, provided he wants to put them on a pallet at his place. I have no idea if they would be shipped to him on a pallet however.
jtakeman
Minister of Fire
j-takeman said:
Any Trebio's in New England? (Maine specifically)
I would purchase all of my pellets this way, if I can get them...
oldmountvernon said:bought a ton of corn to feed deer, came in one of these. Their is a trap door on the bottom, pull the string and look out below your not gonna stop it though
I'm tall, I'll just reach in through the top with a bucket.
movemaine said:
They have a 3 ton delivery minimum - I don't have a truck to haul a giant bag of pellets - but I would consider going in on 3 tons, and on the delivery to my house the other parties could just have them unload the bags onto their truck?
SmokeyTheBear
Minister of Fire
movemaine said:
Did you ask what they use to put them into a garage or wherever?
It is one thing to take a sack of pellets off of a hydraulic lift trailer (which Steve was using) using a manual pallet jack (which Steve was using), quite another matter to get it onto another vehicle.
Hopefully he has a different arrangement this spring than he had last spring.
How come they don't just load the pellets in a truck and haul that to peoples houses, offload with a conveyor belt. My folks heat with rice coal and that is how they get it. It's about the same price as pellets.
superchips
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superchips said:
I keep mine in the garage, 20' from my stove. I'd rather not deal with the sacks, and just scoop a bucket out of this giant sack. I also chose a pellet stove, as I try to lean green when I can - so if I can avoid trashing 50 plastic sacks, all the better.
The supersacks are on a pallet. We sell very few of them. Most people who've tried them don't like them because they're too cumbersome and most importantly because the dust all settles to the bottom. So you have a sack with very little dust for a long time but when you get to the bottom of the sack, the fines have all accumulated there so the last part of the sack is very dusty by comparison. Plus, every time you scoop into it, it will cause a small amount of breakage and add to the dust at the bottom.
On home delivery of bulk: there are companies that do that. Maine Energy Systems does that and we have a truck too, but ours mostly delivers to schools and other larger buildings that take 15 to 30 tons per delivery.
Bulk pellets have been becoming more popular and I think it will continue to increase. Last week for example, 18.9% of what we shipped was bulk. And, all that bulk was used within Maine.
On home delivery of bulk: there are companies that do that. Maine Energy Systems does that and we have a truck too, but ours mostly delivers to schools and other larger buildings that take 15 to 30 tons per delivery.
Bulk pellets have been becoming more popular and I think it will continue to increase. Last week for example, 18.9% of what we shipped was bulk. And, all that bulk was used within Maine.
movemaine said:
So I could go into business and make a 2 ton sack, and put these clowns out of business...
Weird tolienish figure said:
Weird tolienish figure? Not sure what tolienish means - Do you mean Tolkien-ish?
SmokeyTheBear
Minister of Fire
movemaine said:
Perhaps from the book Key West Graffiti by W.J. Tolien .
http://books.google.com/books/about/Key_West_Graffiti.html?id=MDAXLQ90J4oC
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