Seasoned Oak
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Pellet Shortage?
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The whole point of the pellet stove is to save money the planet and thumb your nose a the profiteers in the oil monopolies. Why wouldn't a pellet stove owner buy ahead of time? If your savvy enough to go with pellets and invest in the equipment why not get your pellets ahead? Is it a storage issue or do folks just don't have the money to drop 6 or 7 hundred on a seasons worth of fuel. That happens to be what a fill of oil is going for these parts. I will consider it a true shortage if I can't get pellets in October.
Bioburner
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Have a 250 gallon tank. Empty tank will be filled by the 120 plus psi of bulk tank, while not filling completely because of some vapor can leave for awhile and in AM the smaller tank will heat up faster than the larger tank and purge out some of the vapor into bulk tank. Don't really care if get a total fill if 50 % savings or more. Most refillers will charge as much for a 5 or 10 pound tank as a so called 20 pounder. Been working great for 10 plus years. Must be carefull not to overfill as that is why law made smaller tanks get OPD valves.
it also may be part panic. folks who did plan ahead hear rumors of a shortage, they buy more. this makes the folks who didn't buy all at once go out and buy more, etc ... I wonder how many bags will be sitting on folk's shelves unsed in May.
Bioburner
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Have a 250 gallon tank. Empty tank will be filled by the 120 plus psi of bulk tank, while not filling completely because of some vapor can leave for awhile and in AM the smaller tank will heat up faster than the larger tank and purge out some of the vapor into bulk tank. Don't really care if get a total fill if 50 % savings or more. Most refillers will charge as much for a 5 or 10 pound tank as a so called 20 pounder. Been working great for 10 plus years. Must be carefull not to overfill as that is why law made smaller tanks get OPD valves.
Most propain tanks in our area are 500 gallon. At 4 to $5per gallon, that's 25 Franklins. Ben was the one who stated "a penny saved is a penny earned". Not hard to see the savings of buying a pellet stove and five tons of pellets that are $200 a ton.
My local Lowes is out right now. Bur, I'll have plenty left over by the end of the season. Box stores are my only option here, so I make sure I'm sitting on a pretty healthy stash at all times. Probably have close to 3.5 tons sitting in the shed yet. Should have 2 tons left at the end of the season. The nearest stove shop is 40 miles away, and I have no idea if they sell pellets. I stock up because I never know what pellet is coming on the next truck load. This year it's been primarily Somersets and AWF. I'll burn either of those all day long. In the past I've seen magic spark, pro pellets, and greenways show up. On the other hand, sometimes the truck is bringing North Americans, Green Supremes, and Freedom fuel. Gotta plan ahead.
Home depot here, selling at under $5.00 a bag, and when we buy at the local store that sold us our stove, we get 4.22 per bag but thats a 50 bag price. Just fyi, we burned almost 5 tons so far this winter.
oliveone
Burning Hunk
Upstate NY here below Albany NY all Big Box stores are out of pellets most say they may not get any more in this year. Like fire wood I let my pellets sit 1 year so they are good and dry LOL 
bondo
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Lots of pellets here. I went to Menards to pick some up and they had about 30 pallets there. Little hardware stores, feed mills, grocery stores, gas stations, etc.... all carry them. Well not all but quite a few do.
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rich2500
Minister of Fire
In my neck of the woods pellet supply is not consistent,thanks to friends I know that work at lowes I got my stash last week,but since then I have seen pellets at TSC last saturday and homedepot this Saturday,I guess it's matter of being at the right place at the right time.
hooter04
Feeling the Heat
Got a ton delivered from my supplier on Feb 2.It was newp with a manufacture date of 1/7/14 so they are still producing at newp.
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Went to the local stove dealer today, picked up 5 bags! Thats all they would give out at 6 bucks a bag(energex). Of course after I paid for them I found out home depot had a few pallets. Got an additional 15 bags from them for about 60 bucks. I swear I feel like a crack head running around after these things. Next year I need to figure out a way to keep 5 tons reay to burn. Burned 4 tons already so i think 5 would be perfect. Glad I bought a harmon, sparky burns anything I put in it.
slls
Minister of Fire
Bangor Walmart had 24 ton MWP delivered Thursday, Sat morning less than 1 ton left. $4.18 a bag, there not sure when more will come.
DIrtyJersey
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TSC supply in my area was out as well. Heard a woman asking the sales clerk. She said there were people in and out all day asking for them.
Here in SE PA we've been seeing shortages since Januaray. Lots of us got caught by an unusually cold winter. The 3 big box stores are a real problem. They sell you a pellet stove and tell you that they carry pellets. So you buy one, and come January when you need more pellets, they stop carrying them. They'ed rather carry lawn mowers, weed and feed, and every other product that you're not going to need for 3 or 4 months. These stores don't care about their customers. I don't have the room to store more than 2 tons of pellets, so in a cold winter I get caught. I would buy from my local stove dealership if they didn't want such a premium for their acknowledged better product, but $350 a ton is rediculous. The only Kudos I give to Tractor supply, even if their pellets are inferior. They are the only store that consistently tries to keep supplied during the whole heating season. If I had a choice I'd never set foot again in the blue store, the orange store, or wally world!
Arti
Feeling the Heat
Local Menards Lee Energy at 3.99 bag and Farm store have pellets, Indek at the farm store for 4.49 bag. Lots of Indeks at the farm store.
Whats under your bed? I have a hard time believing most people can not squeeze the pellets they need somewhere. If you can fit two tons just stack them higher. Being able to afford them now that is another issue.
Pellets are low profit plain and simple. There is no billionaire pellet tycoon.
Harman p-68a
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We get our pellets from a local lumber company they deliver and we can get softwood pellets and I get 5-6:ton .l bought 6 this y3ar and had close to a ton of timber heats left so my breezeway was like walking thru a tunnel but it has been nice not trying to scramble to get them or anything like that. I guess im lucky I have the ability to store them so conveniently! 
We have two stove dealers and one has there own plant that produces pellets so they always have pellets on hand!!
We have two stove dealers and one has there own plant that produces pellets so they always have pellets on hand!!
GeHmTS
Feeling the Heat
I still have 1/2 ton of barefoot left, so at least I'll get through the 2nd week of March. I'll buy my next ton soon!
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Bonzoso, What town do you live near? I've not come across any dealers selling for that much per ton, might be able to give you some others sources if depending on where you live.
Danny9909
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GeHmTS
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They're efficient and provide a good amount of heat. I'll definitely be throwing some of them in the stove tomorrow. Today, I'm burning green supreme since it's warmer.
Does any one in southern nh have pellets? All the big chains are out and called a couple of stove shops who are also out.
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