How many bags have you burned so far this season?

I checked a couple of days ago, and I had just loaded in bag #39 on the 40th day of stove operation. So, about a bag a day, average. I don't know how this past 6 weeks of weather pans out in terms of making any long-term projections...seems as though its been fairly "typical". But if it does hold, then my estimates on pellet requirements were fairly accurate.

Bag 99 is in the beast and 100 is waiting its turn. I'm making up for not being able to go around in my tee shirts the past 37 or so winters ;-) .

Time to break down the exhaust and clean it out.

Likely a job for tomorrow afternoon.

Fixedblade said:

I've burned about 3 tons of the 5 I had stockpiled. Looks like I'll be looking to pickup a couple more tons to get me through till spring. Primary heat for a 2800 square foot house in No.Vermont that's over 200 years old, but well insulated. The Harman P-68 is proving itself to be a heat factory, but also a pellet sucker for sure. I didn't expect it to have enough horsepower to heat my whole house, but I haven't touched the oil heat thermostat so far. Pretty pleased with it. FB in Vt.

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Have the P68 as well, and am using it as primary source of heat except for shutdowns. I have about 2000 sq ft, two floors and never expected that this would heat the whole house. Works great, about 73/72 downstairs 67/68 upstairs. Have a fan at top of stairs blowing down on low to help, but not really sure that is even needed. Burning on average about a bag and three quarters a day. When down in the low teens, she really gobbles up the pellets, easy two bags a day. To date burnt 39 bags in 23 days.

82 bags so far this year. 13 in Oct, 24 in Nov , 38 in Dec , 7 in Jan soooooo far . 246 left for this year and next.

yes I have been doing monthly pellet usage as well as oil useage. very interesting stuff, when I get home from work I will post it

120 bags between 2 stoves so far....fro 3 tons...I need more....!

Well, I just checked what I've burned, and since the middle of Oct (light burning to take chill off), I've just finished my 2nd ton. (2700sq. ft. log home w/ cathedral ceiling in great room where the stove is)
I'm heating the main floor, and the upstairs bedrooms, so total is about 18-1900 sq. ft.

I have burned 80 bags so far, and like many others only use the oil heat when I shut down the stove to clean it. I never put any oil in my tank this year, so I am running on what is left of my last delivery in the spring. I am quite sure that is getting low. The oil heat has kicked in a couple of times at night when the temperature is below 0 degrees because I can't run my stove on higher settings unattended with the crappy pellets I have. When it is less than 20 degrees I have been using about 1 3/4 bags a day. This is in a poorly insulated late 1840s built 2 1/2 story house -- around 1800 square feet or so.

I would say that I am pretty satisfied with things so far....

---scott

darkstar said:

......I can't run my stove on higher settings unattended with the crappy pellets I have.....

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What brand pellets are you burning that are "crappy"?

25 bags here in Massachusetts with that as our only heating source besides electric baseboards in the finished basement.

I'm just 10 bags short of burning 3 tons. I have 3 tons left.... I'm heating the whole house and so far I am doing fantastic!

4 tons so far since mid september heating 3600 sq/ft with 6 sliding glass doors on the north side, plus DHW. It's been a heck of a heating season so far, if it isn't snowing it's below zero.

I have burned about 75 bags so far and have not used the boiler at all this year except for the week the stove was waiting to have a piece welded back on.

80 bags so far in Easton Pa
No heating oil used!

I'm guessing around 75 bags. Still have 1/8 of a tank of oil out of a hundred gallons that I purchased last April at $3.32 per gallon. Have to heat water with it.

We went through about 75 bags so far. I love it. My house is so much warmer with the pellet stove. I have it set to 80 in my living room it heats the whole house (except the basement). The furthest room flucutates between 67-70 depending on how cold and windy it is out.

Two more bags will make two tons. I have to make a trip to the stove shop and pick another ton up this week. So far this year I haven't put a dent in my tank of propane and thats what I like to see.

whippingwater said:

.........It's been a heck of a heating season so far, if it isn't snowing it's below zero.

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That's not possible.....remember Al Gore and Global Warming?????

143 bags here.

Heating first and second floors of a 2700 Square foot Cape. Basement is not heated.

I started the season with 5 tons, looks like I will need a bit more.

We are 5 bags shy of using 4 tons. Our forced air oil furnace is running some when the stove does it's clean out. Just right to keep the pipes warm in the crawl space. Damn cold here this year and just thrilled with our stove.

We've used about 120 bags so far. We have an open floor plan with cathedral ceiling. With Barefoots, keeps the house about 70, but we can't seem to keep the back master bathroom above 60 so we use a little bit of oil for that room alone and for DHW. We've gone though about 80 gallons oil which is much less than the 1000 gallons of oil we used last year before we installed the insert.

1800 Sq ft home /built in 1895.... We live at 73....70 at night when were sleeping....being cold sucks.....From Late September to date 82 bags and approx 85 gallons of Kerosene (kerosene is HW and some heat for a large master bedroom set at 66 for 20 hours a day and 70-72 in the morning..) I bought pellets at $230.00 per ton...if Kerosene drops below that ( maybe when an ANGEL comes out my butt) I'll burn more fossil fuel..right now pellets for us are the way to go...

1 bag.
Just fired up the (new) stove today!

About 40 bags thus far.

50 bags of pellets and 50 gallons of oil, 85 bags left 50 gallons of oil left 100 gallons of oil coming Friday.

Found out wife figured out how to use the new therpmostat in the room were the stove is one day as the heat was on in the room as well as the stove

like I said 50 gallons of oil!