What do you do with your Fines?????

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mralias

mralias

Minister of Fire
Apr 29, 2008
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I see all kinds of posts on what to do with your empty bags, but nothing on what to do with fines. For those of you that screen your pellets I'm sure your get a nice collection of saw dust and other dry absorbent matter. I save it, in a pellet bag of course, and keep it handy when changing the oil on the five vehicle's I have parked in the driveway. Picks up oil spills and drips pretty darn nice. Just a bit of useless information for you to read and a way to up my post count in a diabolic scheme to make you all think I'm somewhat intelligent. Did it work???























I didn't think so.....
 
I use Lignetics and only get about a table spoon of fines per bag. I dump the bag into a 10 lb. feed bucket and then pour into the stove. The small amount of fines left at the bottom of the can gets dumped out my back door of my basement on the ground.
 
mralias said:
I see all kinds of posts on what to do with your empty bags, but nothing on what to do with fines. For those of you that screen your pellets I'm sure your get a nice collection of saw dust and other dry absorbent matter. I save it, in a pellet bag of course, and keep it handy when changing the oil on the five vehicle's I have parked in the driveway. Picks up oil spills and drips pretty darn nice. Just a bit of useless information for you to read and a way to up my post count in a diabolic scheme to make you all think I'm somewhat intelligent. Did it work???

























I didn't think so.....
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Mine go in the hopper when the pellets do. They lived together this long, kinda hate to separate 'em. Guess you could dump 'em in the cat box. if ya got one, or any of the above answers.
 
Mine go up the auger with the pellets....."friends that play together stay together", Fireside Ultras pretty nice pellets.
 
Mixed with Elmers glue it makes an excellent wood filler and scratch repair for (non urethane finished) wood floors and furniture, cracks in doorway trim, gaps in mitered joints, etc.
 
I have used the wood filler idea and it works great. Also, I keep a ziplock bag in my backpack to use as a quick emergency fire starter on hikes. Lay down a little pile under some fallen sticks and logs and then I use my magnesium fire starter. They sawdust burns hot and long enough to start even slightly damp wood.

Yet another way that a pellet stove could save your life! ;)
 
NH Pellet Head said:
I have used the wood filler idea and it works great. Also, I keep a ziplock bag in my backpack to use as a quick emergency fire starter on hikes. Lay down a little pile under some fallen sticks and logs and then I use my magnesium fire starter. They sawdust burns hot and long enough to start even slightly damp wood.

Yet another way that a pellet stove could save your life! ;)
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Add a little bit of dryer lint and ball it together with a little bit of vaseline and store it in separated cardboard egg compartment. It works and it's so convenient.
 
I paid for them, so (generally) they burn up with the rest of the contents of the bag. Once per month or so I let the pellets run down in the hopper just to make sure everything looks ok in there. Most times the build-up is minimal and I just hold down the auger button and let them got to the burn pot.
 
I must admit....I am impressed with all your ideas. Keep them coming.
 
build a spud gun using plans from the internet

then save you spuds for food

stuff a wad of newspaper down the barrel

pout the fines in afterwards.

go outside after dark

ignite, and watch the whoe

I did this last night with some stale oatmeal

it has no ballistic potential, but generates a huge visible muzzle flash and booming report.

perfect combo

did it last night in my dooryard and suddenly someone's lights lit up in my swamp and they high tailed it out of there

a perfect use of fine particles. no potential of harm. lots of appropriate fear struck into some unknown person who is hiding in your willows without your permission
 
Burn them with the rest of the pellets... it's silly to separate or do anything else with them.
 
They do have a nice aroma, but I don't think I would smoke or snort them.

I really don't generate enough to use for mulch. I have just been dumping them outside the door of the shed. They contrast nicely with the red mud.
 
My wife fills a large Rubbermaid container with pellets and scoops them from the into the stove hopper. After running one ton thru that system there was about two tablespoons of fines in the bottom of that container.

I guess we don't have any fines... and it makes me wonder why other pellet manufacturers can't do the same.
 
lass442 said:
Mixed with Elmers glue it makes an excellent wood filler and scratch repair for (non urethane finished) wood floors and furniture, cracks in doorway trim, gaps in mitered joints, etc.
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Outstanding
 
Actually I do not smoke but they came in handy today when my wife got stuck in the driveway, Pellet traction is the way to go in the snow...
 
hossthehermit said:
mralias said:
I see all kinds of posts on what to do with your empty bags, but nothing on what to do with fines. For those of you that screen your pellets I'm sure your get a nice collection of saw dust and other dry absorbent matter. I save it, in a pellet bag of course, and keep it handy when changing the oil on the five vehicle's I have parked in the driveway. Picks up oil spills and drips pretty darn nice. Just a bit of useless information for you to read and a way to up my post count in a diabolic scheme to make you all think I'm somewhat intelligent. Did it work???

I just slit the bottom of the bag and let the pellets slide in there fines and all. Bye bye all gone they just burn away. I can see if you dump it top down you get the fines on the top where they can blow around ect. Why throw away free fuel even if it's of minimal value. Of course mine has a nice big ash bin underneath which comes in handy. If I didn't have one I might feel different.























I didn't think so.....
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Mine go in the hopper when the pellets do. They lived together this long, kinda hate to separate 'em. Guess you could dump 'em in the cat box. if ya got one, or any of the above answers.
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Burn them along with the pellets, and believe me in some of my pellet bags there is probably at least 4 cups of fines (light colored). Stove eats em right up. Other bags have almost none at all (dark colored). Hmmmmm.......
 
Penningtons, same here I have come across 1 or 2 bags so far with lighter pellets and they are full of fines, the dark ones are great with very little fines.
the dark ones even smell different,
 
pelletizer said:
Penningtons, same here I have come across 1 or 2 bags so far with lighter pellets and they are full of fines, the dark ones are great with very little fines.
the dark ones even smell different,
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I will smell them to see if there is a difference (won't snort fines, not good for lungs I can assume). Both seem too heat the same.
 
ya they seem to heat the same but maybe the wood is a different type in the lighter ones? or maybe produced in a different plant I think Pennington has 3 or 4 plants.
 
I burn them up I just dump bag's of pellet in the Whitfield Adv II and just burn them up. I've let the stove run out, burn the stove out. ( Stove stops running, run's out of pellets). I look down the hopper and see no fines. I think that anyone who vac there fine's is wasting time my stove burnes them up.. But that justb me.. My stove burn's them up!!! What can I say It's A Whitfield, I thinks it's the best....
 
I sprinkle them over my cereal in the morning to add more fiber to my diet...
 
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