Help needed sourcing bio bricks

I bought a ton of BioBricks last year from a local farm in CT that is a dealer. I had to go pick them up because of the distance. They worked out great and I have three bundles left over for this year. I've seen the CountyLine brand from Tractor Supply, but haven't burned any before. I know several users here have and I have yet to read anything negative. If you've got wood that's close, you could thrown in a brick or two at a time with a load of your best wood and you should be in good shape.

I've seen them at Menard's. The brand might have been eco-bricks?

You might check to see if there is a Family Farm and Home close to your location (http://familyfarmandhome.com/locations). They have the Gren bricks (http://www.grenheat.com/product-info.php). Also, you could check TSC, they sell a larger brick (http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/redstone-wood-fuel-pack-of-6). You can get ton discounts from both locations. Also I remember black Friday sales for these last year.

I was curious about these just in case my wood that I have is not dry enough.
We had a lot of rain here this year

So I called TSC and my local one has a pallet of 96 packs
to get the 5% discount you have to buy a pallet full.
So that is around 320 for a pallet.

I wonder how much "wood" this would equal out to

A pallet should equal out to 1 ton. BioBricks claim that 1 ton = 1.5 cords of wood - BTU-wise. My experience with them showed that I would get 4-5 hours burn time out of 8 bricks with stove top temps around 600dF.

BigCountryNY said:

BioBricks claim that 1 ton = 1.5 cords of wood - BTU-wise.

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I've never bought or burned bio bricks, but that sounds like a very optimistic claim to me. So I looked up a general source that says 1 ton of bio bricks is roughly equivalent to 1 cord of dry pitch pine (16.5 MBtu/cord), which is also equivalent to 1.5 cords of about the worst species you can find on the chart (bamboo and white cedar).

https://chimneysweeponline.com/howood.htm

A different way to use the same chart and math is that 1 ton of 16.5 MBtu bio bricks is roughly equivalent to 3/4 ton of oak at 22 MBtu. That's only half of the claim. (If the chart is even accurate, but it's probably close enough.)

This is intriguing me, so I went to their website, and the only claim I see is that 1 lb of Biobricks = 1.7 lb of cordwood. Based on the above math, I am assuming that's 1.7 lb of wet cordwood, which is an unfair comparison. (Unless you plan to burn wet wood).

I have no beef against biobricks, nor experience. Just that I wouldn't plan on 2 pallets giving you 3 dry cords of heat.