Howdy all. I'm looking at possibly replacing my Toyo oil burner with a Harman pellet stove. The only concern I have is that, when I go on trips in the winter I'll need to have somebody come over and load pellets for me. In order to get a big enough hopper to cover the times when it's 70 below zero without having to be fed 2x a day I'll have to have a pretty drastically over-sized stove. I know the stoves have automatic controls, so I assume this won't be an issue, since the augur would just feed a smaller volume of pellets than it's capable of. I wanted to double check with folks that would know the actual answer and make sure I'm not creating unnecessary problems for myself, however.
My ideal for hoppers on the Harman would be the one with the hopper extension that lets you load up 140ish pounds of pellets at a time, but the high end BTU output is WAY over what I actually need for my 700 sq foot cabin.
I'm really wanting to get away from burning oil completely, but I'm also pretty fond of the freedom that having 250 gallons of oil sitting in a tank provides in terms of being able to go away for a week or two at a time.
I also have a cord-wood burning stove in the cabin. Part of the appeal of replacing the Toyo instead of the wood stove with the pellet burner is that I have the ability to go out and cut my own heating fuel when I want.
My ideal for hoppers on the Harman would be the one with the hopper extension that lets you load up 140ish pounds of pellets at a time, but the high end BTU output is WAY over what I actually need for my 700 sq foot cabin.
I'm really wanting to get away from burning oil completely, but I'm also pretty fond of the freedom that having 250 gallons of oil sitting in a tank provides in terms of being able to go away for a week or two at a time.
I also have a cord-wood burning stove in the cabin. Part of the appeal of replacing the Toyo instead of the wood stove with the pellet burner is that I have the ability to go out and cut my own heating fuel when I want.
