Crappy Pellets!

I live in SW ontario and started to run low on my usual "michigan wood pellet fuel" pellets.

I went to a local canadian tire store and picked up 5 bags of groupesavoie canawick hardwood pellets to try out.

Expensive yes, but dont burn worth a crap! The pellets drop into the hopper and start to smolder not burn, and blacken up the inside of my stove. No heat and the burn pot couldnt breath. Must have been loaded with bark as the moisture felt ok.

I immediately shut the stove down and it took 25 minutes for the pot to burn down, leaving me with hard, black looking rat crap in the bottom of the pot. Have burned a lot of pellets this year with no problems and lots of heat.


I had that, "oh god, have no more good pellets and have no more heat in my shop" anxiety! Kinda freaked out for a few minutes.

Returned the pellets to the store and told what garbage they were, and how someone will ruin their stove with this junk.

I am able to clean and fix any problems but someone will be out a lot of money on service calls, as i install hearth for a living.

Went this morning and bought my usual fuel and was back to normal again.

Just had to rant!

They were very dark in colour compared to what i'm used to.

I was told the bark content will be signifigant the darker the colour of pellet.

I looked up the company on line, and they build skids and other various things, and thought after i saw that, there may be strange chemicals in their scraps?

Who knows, it's frusterating loading, unloading, loading and unloading again over crappy product, a lot of work for nothing! Lol