Early Buy Special

How did you get this , E-mail ?

Ive delt with them for several years now, since they are litterally around the corner form me, and have been very reasonable.

Marking my calander for April 16th.

Boy those temps look very familiar! Wonder who did the independent study???

Also, any predictions on pellet sortages this year ? I know gloom and doom was predicted last year, but with winter a no show, figure there is more carryover than usuall.

iron stove said:

How did you get this , E-mail ?

Ive delt with them for several years now, since they are litterally around the corner form me, and have been very reasonable.

Marking my calander for April 16th.

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Wow! No good deed goes unpunished.

iron stove said:

Also, any predictions on pellet sortages this year ? I know gloom and doom was predicted last year, but with winter a no show, figure there is more carryover than usuall.

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Well the warm weather threw the mills a curve. Should be OK for a bit! Some brands could go "limited supply" come fall. Barefoots aren't having much af a spring deal from what I see. Okies are firm in price but supply seems good. I'm not real worried just yet! Log to Chip mills are very stable with supply. 2 of the best spring deals(most price drop) I have seen so far are log to chip brands! I'm pretty sure we might see more add the log to chip capabilities before long.

Another is NG sales/conversions have risen. Some of the people though to step into a pellet stove actually went with NG instead(no actual proof. But its what I hear).

If the birds start squawking? I'm pass it on!

Read between the lines: We suggest you wait until April 16th so we can charge you more since gas prices are still rising. :ahhh:

jtakeman said:

iron stove said:

Also, any predictions on pellet sortages this year ? I know gloom and doom was predicted last year, but with winter a no show, figure there is more carryover than usuall.

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Another is NG sales/conversions have risen. Some of the people though to step into a pellet stove actually went with NG instead(no actual proof. But its what I hear).

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Funny you mention that. Ive started the process of switching from oil to Gas, since a new development went in and the gas line just catches my area now.

NEWP is reporting a $10 drop for spring buy. That is after they went up $5 in January . I am wondering about the new Dry Creek pellets. Would like to have more NY product to sell. I think spring buy is going to be just for the people who like to get pellets early this year I'm not hear about much of a price drop from any company.

I got that same email from Primo.

Waiting on Lowes Southington to get the green team to give them a try on my stove. Wondering the same here about the prices....worth to wait until fall or buy now at $219/ton.

Meneillys said:

NEWP is reporting a $10 drop for spring buy. That is after they went up $5 in January . I am wondering about the new Dry Creek pellets. Would like to have more NY product to sell. I think spring buy is going to be just for the people who like to get pellets early this year I'm not hear about much of a price drop from any company.

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Like I said, Log to chip brands are where I'm seeing the biggest drop. Most of the others are Nothing to about $20 clams lower from current prices. I have seen $60 clams on the PowerHouse and about $40 clams on the MaineChoice in my area. Each region could play a different story though.

Many brands are holding firm with the current price, No spring break at all. And they are the big names like Okanagan and Barefoot. If oil stays steady or starts climbing. You can bet the pellet prices come fall will raise much more than the spring early buy prices.

good point Jay

We switch to pellets to get away from oil and it affects us anyway. Is there ANY way on earth to shake the damn oil syndrome?!

Ejectr said:

Is there ANY way on earth to shake the damn oil syndrome?!

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Solar and wind?

Ejectr said:

Is there ANY way on earth to shake the damn oil syndrome?!

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Hope and change ?

Face it, our country and way of life is 100% based on oil. From cars, TV's and electronics, air travel, medication, synthetic clothing, fertilizer, etc, we are hooked on it unless we go back to colonial times.

Thanks to mother nature just counted my stash and have 130 bags of Hamers left and don't see where I'll be using more than 30 bags to end the heating season. Will wait to see what early spring buy offers this year but know for sure the price of fuel will kill us. Pellets Direct was offering 59.00 delivery charge within a certain mile radius (not sure what it is) but their pellet prices are a little high but it's total price (pellets plus delivery charge) that I look at not just pellet prices. As far as oil is concerned I got 125 gallons in October and just got another 125 gallons a few weeks ago. The less times I have to call the oil man the happier I am. No need for fuel prices to be where their at! Between the pellet stove (stove is in the basement) and as I said on a earlier post I bought a edenpure heater to try out basically for the kitchen and living room I was able to keep the thermostat on 64 for the winter. My electric bill showed no significant increase, the most was a 14.00 dollar increase in which it fluxuates anyways. Ran the heater like from 5pm to 9pm everyday and it did keep these rooms around 70 degrees on normal setting, not cranked. Next up is to find another way to heat the hot water.....

Ejectr said:

We switch to pellets to get away from oil and it affects us anyway. Is there ANY way on earth to shake the damn oil syndrome?!

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Stop buying... I mean stop buying anything... then you won't need any oil to survive but you'll have to grow your own food from your own seed and make your own clothes from the fiber you grow... you get the idea.

iron stove said:

How did you get this , E-mail ?

Ive delt with them for several years now, since they are litterally around the corner form me, and have been very reasonable.

Marking my calander for April 16th.

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I got the email Friday

My local supplier has been pricing at $217/ton or $210/ton if you buy three ton during the heating season. Going back yesterday to stock up for next season, the per ton price went up $5.00, not sure what that means for prices next season. But I plan to avoid that little problem.

I'm new to the pellet scene, just getting my insert installed on 2/29, so I have no history as to when the best time of the year it is to buy pellets. It seems like summer would be the best time when no one is thinking about heating. Yet there are other economic factors: reduced amount of sawdust due to idle mills, higher fuel costs for transportation (both to the disti and delivery), higher demand for pellets. I see a lot of other people that are in their first year of pellet heating and had bought pellets in the fall or over the season. Sure I would like to pay as little as I can, but I want something that I can put in the stove, not have problems and get the lowest ash with the highest heat output. There does not seem to be a lot of stock left or over manufacturing capacity, so I do not see a substantial fall off of prices in the spring offerings.

While waiting for my stove to arrive I had been on pellet hunts and bought a 4 bags each of Green Supreme (ok, little more fly ash than I wanted), Inferno (yuk), and North American (ok). Watching the prices I saw some upward movement in price. It was hard to gauge since the winter was very warm. it could have just been to fuel costs. An increase of $10-15 per ton starts to wash out delivery costs. I have a newer Jeep Liberty and an old Cherokee. The weight limits on these are 1000 lbs, so unless a pellet place was real close on on the way home from work my transportation costs could be large shuttling back and forth. I estimate I could use 4+ tons a normal winter. Debating whether to get 3 tons now, getting the discount level, and waiting for a proce break per ton with maybe higher delivery cost... I pulled the trigger and bought 5 tons of PWI for 259 each. went for something that had low ash with good heat output. I don't think I'll be stuck with something that will not burn, but that is the risk. I can still watch the market and strike on some ~$200/ton product at a big box store if it happens.

My 5 tons of PWI ready for the fall:

iron stove said:

Also, any predictions on pellet sortages this year ? I know gloom and doom was predicted last year, but with winter a no show, figure there is more carryover than usuall.

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Gloom and doom pellet shortages are predicted every year, lol. Just like in Oct/Nov, there are the seasonal "this is going to be a terrible winter" predictions every single year.

bcb1 said:

Gloom and doom pellet shortages are predicted every year, lol. Just like in Oct/Nov, there are the seasonal "this is going to be a terrible winter" predictions every single year.

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Ain't that the truth.

This winter was suppossed to be so brutal we would barely survive it. :lol:

https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/77192/

I have the chance to get 75 bags of Green Gold Premiums for 200.00 are they a good pellet?