Canawick pellets

Never saw them before .Looks Canadian .

Another new pellet to keep an eye out for! :cheese: Candian usually means the good stuff!

doocrew, please post some thoughts when you get to burn them. Thanks

I bought 3 bags of Canawiks yesterday.....waiting for a colder snap to try them out along with another new hardwood pellet made in Nova Scotia called Enligna...I'll update later with my seat of the pants evaluation....I really only can compare to Eastern Embers, but I can give a: better, worse, or, about the same rating.

Where are Enligna's made? First I have heard of them. Someone should start a thread with every pellet brand with picture of bag posted....no comments though. As for the Canawick's, Canadian tire here in Riverview is carrying them,rather than the Maine Woods in the other stores.Made by the Savoie Group who make windows I think or value added wood products and make bio-bricks as well.

Stoopid me, enligna is a huge pellet company based in Germany and have a giant pellet plant in Nova Scotia. They have pellet plants 'round the world.

OK..finished the Canawicks today and can report they are a very good pellet. Particularly low on fines and dust, dark colour and slightly yeasty smell. Similar in heat output to the Eastern Embers and about the same amount of ash...I particularly liked how little soot buildup there was on the glass..I really liked them. Now I am starting on the Enlignas...they look pretty much the same as the Canawics, but less smell....first time I ever burned a hardwood pellet, but works good in the Quad.

Well the Enlignas are not nearly as good as the Canawicks. More fines and ash than the Canawicks...they seem to burn slower and build up in the burnpot. These may be marginally better than the Eastern Embers (Softwood) which have a lot more fines and dust. My pick would be the Canawicks if I could get them delivered to the house on Pallets.

I am really looking forward to getting my hands on the Crabbe pellets for a trial.

I wish you guys would invest in a simple magnetic flue temperature guage,so as to give a measure of heat output. Ash and fines,I don't care anymore.It is heat output that I am after.

Yeah, these are made up Noth Shore of New Brunswick near Bathurst, see them here in local canadian tire store too, sittin next to the Maine Woods, still stickin with the Crabbes, i can,t seem to shake em, lol.

Doocrew- Where did you buy the Canawicks and how much please?

Thanks Doocrew. That is a bit pricey but let us know how you like them if you decide to try them.

pete324rocket said:

I wish you guys would invest in a simple magnetic flue temperature guage,so as to give a measure of heat output. Ash and fines,I don't care anymore.It is heat output that I am after.

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OK "Pete" I didn't bother to buy one of those, but in the interest of more data for comparison, I stole the wife's Taylor meat thermometer (after the turkey was done). to take these readings....sorry but the canawicks were all used up!.
The Meat Thermometer was placed in the center tube with just the dial out of the tube. Measurements were taken starting 10 minutes after the circ fan started and then in 5 minute intervals....3 readings Deg F for each setting were averaged to give the following results:
High Med Low
Eastern Embers 183 190 151
Enligna... 138 159 145

Then i did my 2x/week cleaning and got the following reading so far from the Enlignas: Low setting 192

Clearly cleaning is more important than pellet choice!!

If I let my burn pot fill up with a lot of coals(zero draft) I can get 450 degrees on the lowest possible setting,which is where it stays 90 percent of the time. You are below the temperature to boil water....there must be some mistake....

I bought some Canawicks to start the season, and while they throw a lot of heat, the ash build-up in my burn pot caused issues. The amount of ash would cause a relight to fail, as the ignitor couldn't get the fresh pellets hot enough through the ash. I got 2 more bags yesterday, as I thought maybe the fact that I hadn't cleaned the stove at the start of the season may have been the reason. Same issues with the stove cleaned, so it might be an issue with my stove. If I could somehow get the feed rate slow enough so that the pellets burned more completely before fresh pellets dropped I might be able to fix the problem, but I'm set on the slowest feed rate already.
I have an Enviro Meridian. Maybe a stove with the auger in the burn pot that agitated the ashes might be a better fit for these pellets. The DO throw a lot of heat!!

Yes BrrGrr The issue with them in my stove was also the feed rate.....On my Quad I have the feed rate set as low as it can go and really can only burn the Canawicks on my High setting which moves a lot more combustion air...on Med and Low the pellets cant burn fast enough. However I did find they burned cleaner (less soot) than any others I have tried...they seemed a lot less dusty too than the Eastern Embers which are my benchmark.

I've tried the Canawick pellets.
They are a bit dirtier than Eastern Embers but I found them to burn hot.
The only reason I'm not using them is because they cost 49 cents more per bag than Eastern Embers.

Peirhead:

Your assessment of the Enlignas is spot-on. I've burned through about 6 bags or so of them and noticed more build-up in the burn pot and ash in the ash container when I did my weekly cleaning this afternoon - I would go so far as to say "considerably" more.

Heat? About the same as the Eastern Embers. Significantly less fines and dust than Eastern Embers and Burning Embers (both softwood pellets).

But, at .50 less per bag, I'll clean a little more often and stick with the Enlignas.

Well, here in Nova Scotia the Canawick are .49 cents a bag more not less than Eastern Embers.
I've also noticed that Comfy Cozy are of better quality in the last year or two and they are the same price as Eastern Embers at $5.49 a bag. The only thing with the Comfy Cozy pellets is you know that if another pellets shortage occurs they will likely put their price up as they did a few years ago. Not a good practice when trying to retain loyal customers. I know it certainly rubbed me the wrong way.

These seems to be the prices in or around Halifax (per 40lb bag) - pretty much no change all winter:

Eastern Embers - $5.50 - no volume discounts
Cozys - $5.50, as low as $4.50 when on sale - no volume discounts
Enlignas - $5.50 - $5.00 if you buy a pallet (55 bags)
Burning Embers - $6.00 - $5.50 if you buy a pallet
Canawicks - $6.00, no volume discounts

Anyone know of any others?

TP Downey in the Moncton area for $4.49 bag but the bags are 30 lbs.
Good pellet too. Quite comparable to the Canawick.

33 pounds is more accurate

Yes, your right, 33 lbs it is. Sorry about that.
I wish there was a place closer to the Amherst or Oxford area that carried the TP Downey.