Storage

Eeps24 said:

First year pellet user (Harmon accentra 52i) received my pellets... Wtf... They take up sooooo much room. Where do you guys store your pellets?

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2 car garage. Mommas car in one, 6 tons and a garden tractor in the other.

mass_burner said:

Do you basement folks carry up bag by bag to the stove.

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yep. if i'm down there for any other reason, i always grab a bag if my hands aren't already full.

I worked out a deal with my boss and I store a ton at work. When I go there I grab a bag or two and bring it home. He wanted me to make sure that there would not be bugs.

mass_burner said:

Do you basement folks carry up bag by bag to the stove.

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Yes and no. I have a ton in the basement, but I keep 10 bags in a blanket chest converted to pellet storage beside the stove.

MaineBiker said:

Unfortunately mine are stored outside.

All are ontop of another pallet, I have a 12x16 tarp over it, tied down so it doesnt blow away, but not so tight that air cannot blow through a little bit. So far no moisture issues at all.


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Wow, isn't that living dangerously? Where I live, there isn't much hope of keeping a tarp on anything.

mass_burner said:

Do you basement folks carry up bag by bag to the stove.

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Only need to bring up about 1 bag a day average.

Funnydirt14 said:

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Yes and no. I have a ton in the basement, but I keep 10 bags in a blanket chest converted to pellet storage beside the stove.

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Good idea, seems like a no brainer. We were thinking of getting a pellet stove for an elderly parent and that's what we were thinking. Whoever visited would make sure the bin was full, and she could scoop in as needed.

Hopper extension will keep the stove going for a couple extra days too.

Bioburner said:

Hopper extension will keep the stove going for a couple extra days too.

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Good to know.

Nothing for critters to eat so move on. Carbon monoxide was from large storage bins

2) No critters, no bugs - much different than wood. I suppose if you already had mice, they might find the area under the pallets a nice place for a nest, but they shouldn't be chewing into the bags. I've heard people that store pellets outside don't have pest problems in their stashes, so inside shouldn't be a problem.

3) For CO - if you are worried (I heard/read that too), CO detectors are cheap so get another one (you do have one for the general vicinity of the stove don't you?) and place it just outside the area you are storing the pellets. I have a CO detector in my basement and it has never moved off of "0"

4) Yeah, I feel your pain. This is the first year I have gotten tons delivered, instead of transporting my own, so my garage storage kind of cramps everything. I have my car living outside right now. My bike, mower, snow blower, pellets, bathtub and surround have the garage. In another month or so, the bike will be at the dealer's for storage, the mower will be in the shed (I'm hoping it will fit - it used to be stored where the pellets are now), and hoping the tub and surround are installed. Then my car can come inside (it will be a very tight squeeze). I have been spoiled the last 2 winters by not having to scrape ice/snow off the windshield and even the frosts we have had have irritated me in the mornings!

mass_burner said:

Do you basement folks carry up bag by bag to the stove.

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I made a slide for the pellet bags, it makes things easy and fast.

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we have had plenty of mice... I'm sure they get in the garage. chipmunks too. I don't think they hand around - no food in there and no heat, no water. no reason for them to set up shop. I have never had a pellet bag touched by mice or chipmunks. they did however find a bag of fertilizer in the garage, chew that open and eat the fertilizer. Well not sure if they ate it but it was gone. sure they used it for something...

The garaged is detatched so I keep the main stash there and every weekend put 10 bags in the house plus 2 in hopper. the next weekend while I'm not at work I top off the house stash. don't want the hassle of hauling pellets from garage to house after working all day.

I have one garage bay dedicated to pellets in the winter. I am getting my delivery on Friday! Its easy to go into a garage in the winter to get pellets and not too cold. Everything is bone dry. The only trick is to try to get enough and burn enough so I don't have any laying around in the spring.

store up to 3 ton in the garage, just bought a corn/pellet furnace and built a 1-ton bin in the basement for the corn, which will come loose and I will shoot into the basement through a window. I will mix pellets with the corn and transfer by bucket to my 7-10 day hopper. Just got this up and running, cant wait for the whole house heat!

mralias said:

My wife now sleeps outside in a tent. I had to store them somewhere...

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That's cold! I mean for her to be sleeping outside in a tent. Hopefully she can afford a good warm sleeping bag. Tell her to NOT sleep directly on the ground, it draws the heat right out of the body.
Built this shed that now has 2.5 ton in it.
I will be stacking an additional 2 ton in an unfinished basement on pallets.

mass_burner said:

Wow, isn't that living dangerously? Where I live, there isn't much hope of keeping a tarp on anything.

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I have it died down with some para cord, tied to each pallet individually so I can fold back a section at a time, very tight. very little wind can get inside there but enough to carry out moisture.

bill3rail said:

That's cold! I mean for her to be sleeping outside in a tent. Hopefully she can afford a good warm sleeping bag. Tell her to NOT sleep directly on the ground, it draws the heat right out of the body.
Built this shed that now has 2.5 ton in it.
I will be stacking an additional 2 ton in an unfinished basement on pallets.

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hehe, the wifey in the tent might cut down some of the "vibrations" as noted on another thread.

on topic: I have one ton of pellets and a face cord of seasoned oak on hand outside on the covered porch. We normally had four face cords of wood stacked there to start the season, as we had done for years. On a nice winter day we restock the porch with wood or the pellets via the bucket on the tractor. Mean while we have the other five tons in the wood shed, with about 4 face cords of wood; with rows of stacked and covered wood stove food next to the driveway.

We would like to install a large hopper on the back side of the house having it plumbed into the house, however there are no bulk deliveries yet in our area.

I kept 9 tons along one wall in my detached garage. I run 2 stoves in 2 areas of an 1880's home last year. I have an area in the house in the back room that I pile 20 bags at once. My exercise for the day moving 20 bags into the house one by one. Not every day but often enough. Beats firewood any day.

Stove is in basement..... pellets are in basement..

Dan

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Pete Zahria said:

Stove is in basement..... pellets are in basement..

Dan

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Planning on a nuclear winter?

3 tons stored inside not far from the stove. 1.5 tons to the left side, and 1.5 tons in the closet under the stairs that is about 12' from the stove.