I just pulled apart a deck that was built out of mahogany. I saved all it and I sent it threw a planer. It's all like new, but I saved the saw dust with the plan to rent a pellet mill. But I can't find anywhere they rent them where I live. I have 4 55 gallon trash cans full of mahogany saw dust. Does anyone know any place in the Connecticut area that rents pellet mills. Or does anyone have one that would rent or allow me to run the saw dust threw their mill for a fee
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joescho
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The topic comes up from time to time.... The concensus is its just not feasable
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...ellet-fuels-or-stick-with-wood-pellet.123272/
wenger7446
Feeling the Heat
What did you replace the mahogany with? I am installing a deck next year and i am wondering what everyone is using.
Mahogany pellets that would be a first. They may burn wonderfully.. Wonder if they would be like a hardwood or a softwood.
I replaced it with trex. It's like a PVC. Zero matinance. Just rinse with a hose. The decking and all the railing was replaced with trex.
Mahogany is a very dense and hardwood. The decking boards are 1in x 6in and are very heavy. Never handled another piece of wood as heavy or as hard as this wood. Guess it was on the deck for about 7 years and I took about a 1/8 of a inch off the board and they look beautiful. Like new. Any other wood would have a lot of rot absolutely none on any of it
railfanron
Minister of Fire
Four 55 gallon drums of mahogany sawdust would probably make about 3 bags of pellets. I make quite a bit of sawdust a year and have thought of doing the same thing but when you get down to it it's a pretty expensive proposition. Ipe is a little heavier than Mahogany and it weighs in at about 65 lbs per cubic ft so it would take a lot of sawdust or chips to make a ton and if you could rent a pellet mill I doubt you could do it for less than 75.00 a day and you would have to feed it by hand.
Ron
Ron
Would love to make some pellets with it. I've been trying to talk my brother into going half on pellet mill. After a year it would pay for i
Like I said I've been contemplating getting a pellet mill. But if it is like you say it would take a long time and a lot of materials to produce pellets yearl
hoverfly
Minister of Fire
tjnamtiw
Minister of Fire
Put those boards on craigslist and I bet you get some good money for them! If you lived near me, they would be in my garage already along side my pile of 12 foot long 18 to 28" wide oak boards!
As for the pellet mill, do some 'searching' on here and you'll find many reasons, including my research and analysis, as to why it makes no sense. Briefly, you also need a hammer mill that costs almost as much as the pelletizer, bags of binding agent since the little mills don't generate enough heat to release the lignin in the wood, spare rollers and dies, plus you need to do some reaming, polishing, and chamfering of the holes in the dies. Then you need to have a set up to cool the pellets before you bag them in whatever you are going to bag them in. If you are buying a setup from the US, then you will pay double what it costs you to import a setup. Then you need at least 3 people to keep the flow going.
Pay $250 for ton of pellets at Lowes and pick up a case of good beer on the way home.
As for the pellet mill, do some 'searching' on here and you'll find many reasons, including my research and analysis, as to why it makes no sense. Briefly, you also need a hammer mill that costs almost as much as the pelletizer, bags of binding agent since the little mills don't generate enough heat to release the lignin in the wood, spare rollers and dies, plus you need to do some reaming, polishing, and chamfering of the holes in the dies. Then you need to have a set up to cool the pellets before you bag them in whatever you are going to bag them in. If you are buying a setup from the US, then you will pay double what it costs you to import a setup. Then you need at least 3 people to keep the flow going.
Pay $250 for ton of pellets at Lowes and pick up a case of good beer on the way home.
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