First Impressions: Northest Pellets (Ashland, Maine)

lessoil said:

I called Northeast Pellets yesterday and spoke with the owner, Matt Bell.
He gave me the name of 2 distributors.
Blanchard's Fuel in Turner which is across the road from the Chick-A-Dee Restaurant.
The other distributor is Sandy River Fuel in Strong.
I went to Blanchard's and purchased 2 bags for testing.
The first thing I noticed is the color of the pellets. They are much lighter in color than the Athens pellets which we have.
Also, there didn't seem to be any dust and the fines were extremely low.
After 12 hrs of burning there was less ash then after an hour or two with Athens.
The ash is dark in color and is very light. These should burn well in all stoves.

The bag has a Pellet Fuels Institute analysis stamp on it.
Grade: Premium
Material: All natural White Wood
Ash: Less than .5%
Fines: Less than .05%
Sodium: Less than 300 PPM

Here is a short interview with Matt done by a Portland station.
http://www.woodpelletfuel.org/video/northeast_pellets.html

Hope this helps. Sorry OPEC, I guess I will stay with pellets.

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ugenetoo said:

lessoil said:

I called Northeast Pellets yesterday and spoke with the owner, Matt Bell.
He gave me the name of 2 distributors.
Blanchard's Fuel in Turner which is across the road from the Chick-A-Dee Restaurant.
The other distributor is Sandy River Fuel in Strong.
I went to Blanchard's and purchased 2 bags for testing.
The first thing I noticed is the color of the pellets. They are much lighter in color than the Athens pellets which we have.
Also, there didn't seem to be any dust and the fines were extremely low.
After 12 hrs of burning there was less ash then after an hour or two with Athens.
The ash is dark in color and is very light. These should burn well in all stoves.

The bag has a Pellet Fuels Institute analysis stamp on it.
Grade: Premium
Material: All natural White Wood
Ash: Less than .5%
Fines: Less than .05%
Sodium: Less than 300 PPM



To bad Athens did more wrong than using whole tree chips. They used ground branches and bark. Big difference. I hear NEP is planning to process clean green wood not and maybe some whole tree chips not the same garbage that Athens has been making. I cant imagine if they have such a good reputation for clean pellets and high quality that they will be willing to trade that for a little extra volume.

Here is a short interview with Matt done by a Portland station.
http://www.woodpelletfuel.org/video/northeast_pellets.html

Hope this helps. Sorry OPEC, I guess I will stay with pellets.

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about the only problem that i have heard of with the northeast pellets since they started was that some were too long and tended to bridge over the feed hole in the hopper. i think matt has remedied that problem, but now ne is having raw product delivery problems related to all the wood products manufacturing plants closing down. i hear that he is gearing up to use whole tree wood chips, but that comes with its own set of problems as has been shown with the athens mill.

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pelletpro said:

ugenetoo said:

lessoil said:

I called Northeast Pellets yesterday and spoke with the owner, Matt Bell.
He gave me the name of 2 distributors.
Blanchard's Fuel in Turner which is across the road from the Chick-A-Dee Restaurant.
The other distributor is Sandy River Fuel in Strong.
I went to Blanchard's and purchased 2 bags for testing.
The first thing I noticed is the color of the pellets. They are much lighter in color than the Athens pellets which we have.
Also, there didn't seem to be any dust and the fines were extremely low.
After 12 hrs of burning there was less ash then after an hour or two with Athens.
The ash is dark in color and is very light. These should burn well in all stoves.

The bag has a Pellet Fuels Institute analysis stamp on it.
Grade: Premium
Material: All natural White Wood
Ash: Less than .5%
Fines: Less than .05%
Sodium: Less than 300 PPM



To bad Athens did more wrong than using whole tree chips. They used ground branches and bark. Big difference. I hear NEP is planning to process clean green wood not and maybe some whole tree chips not the same garbage that Athens has been making. I cant imagine if they have such a good reputation for clean pellets and high quality that they will be willing to trade that for a little extra volume.

Here is a short interview with Matt done by a Portland station.
http://www.woodpelletfuel.org/video/northeast_pellets.html

Hope this helps. Sorry OPEC, I guess I will stay with pellets.

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about the only problem that i have heard of with the northeast pellets since they started was that some were too long and tended to bridge over the feed hole in the hopper. i think matt has remedied that problem, but now ne is having raw product delivery problems related to all the wood products manufacturing plants closing down. i hear that he is gearing up to use whole tree wood chips, but that comes with its own set of problems as has been shown with the athens mill.

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