Anybody out there besides me wear a mask when filling the hopper and working around pellets. If I don't wear one I get coughing fits. I'm wondering if inhaling all that dust is bad on the lungs. I wear the kind that they wear in hospitals.
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DneprDave
Minister of Fire
SXIPro
Minister of Fire
I used to wear one when cleaning the stove until I learned to keep it running while doing the cleaning. Never had a problem with unburned pellet dust. I keep my pellets in the basement. To limit the dust I spread down there and upstairs, I lean the nozzle of my shop vac against my coal hod's lip. Then as I pour the pellets into the coal hod it sucks up the dust. Then I can carry a dust free load of pellets into the living room to dump in the stove.
Mike D
Feeling the Heat
No mask, same as SXIPro I turn the stove back on after cooling down to get the exhaust fan going to move the ash/dust out the vent piping - otherwise it ends up on the rug or floor and if I don't clean it up I hear about it from the boss 
hold your breath, cut the bag open more 
I guess it depends on how fast you dump, my wife had to hit reset because the stove went out, I can usually dump a bag in 20-30 seconds. Im asthmatic and never had a problem. Probably should wear one.
I guess it depends on how fast you dump, my wife had to hit reset because the stove went out, I can usually dump a bag in 20-30 seconds. Im asthmatic and never had a problem. Probably should wear one.
Eatonpcat
Minister of Fire
Mask??? I chop pellets into dust and snort them...My doctor says that fiber is my friend!!
thedude110
Feeling the Heat
If you've got that much pellet dust, you may need to upgrade to a better pellet!
I do sometimes think "I should be wearing a mask" when I'm cleaning the stove because I can get choked up by some of the ash particles due to my asthma/craptastic lungs, I think.
I do sometimes think "I should be wearing a mask" when I'm cleaning the stove because I can get choked up by some of the ash particles due to my asthma/craptastic lungs, I think.
nailed_nailer
Minister of Fire
I poke a finger into the top of a fresh bag and pull the bag apart at the heat seal seam.
Then pour the entire bag into the hopper, pellets/fines/whatever.
Any dust that rises up is filtered through the cigarette I have stuffed in my face.
I try to remember to inhale through the butt and exhale through my nose.
No problem with pellet dust bothering me.
---Nailer---
Then pour the entire bag into the hopper, pellets/fines/whatever.
Any dust that rises up is filtered through the cigarette I have stuffed in my face.
I try to remember to inhale through the butt and exhale through my nose.
No problem with pellet dust bothering me.
---Nailer---
Xena
Minister of Fire
You may have a mild wood allergy. My father for example is allergic to the ash species and it only bothered him in a sawmill - where dust was airborne. The worst part for him was he ran a hardwood sawmill for 20 years.
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