So I'm burning Pellets in my wood stove, vids inside. =]

jeremy85 said:

$3.97

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Thanks for the reply and thanks for sharing. I know you are experimenting.

Thats so far an easy $110-$120 dollars a month without even being winter.
Thats cheaper than a gallon of fuel oil but wouldnt take me as far as a gallon of oil would to heat my house for the day with less hassle.
Thats 16 to 18 good cycles of 2.5 minutes of heat from the furnace with a .6 gpm nozzel for the day at 32f with a well insulated home.

Does it cost you more than a $100 a month down there now to heat a home at 32f with NG or oil/propane?

Now wait a min..lol.
16 cycles at 2.5 mins is 40 minutes x.6 gallons/min is 24 gallons x 4/gall is 96 bucks!
You must have meant 6 to 8 cycles for the day?
Maybe I'm doing the math wrong?

north of 60 said:

jeremy85 said:

$3.97

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Thanks for the reply and thanks for sharing. I know you are experimenting.

Thats so far an easy $110-$120 dollars a month without even being winter.
Thats cheaper than a gallon of fuel oil but wouldnt take me as far as a gallon of oil would to heat my house for the day with less hassle.
Thats 16 to 18 good cycles of 2.5 minutes of heat from the furnace with a .6 gpm nozzel for the day at 32f with a well insulated home.

Does it cost you more than a $100 a month down there now to heat a home at 32f with NG or oil/propane?

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Natural gas will heat my home relatively inexpensively, about 300 dollars per month. It will not heat my home as warm as I would like it, nor will it heat the room we spend the most time in comfortably if I wish to keep the bills in the relatively inexpensive range. The point is, that come what may, I am going to be spending money heating this place. I like the ambiance and presence of a wood stove. I like the heat. What I spend on pellets I save on gas and electricity, figuring on about 55 pounds of pellets per day. Cord wood is 329 a cord, for less than the best, not particularly dry, not particularly dense, not of any specific variety. I can have oak, basswood, birch, locust, cottonwood, elm, hackberry, or pine in any given cord. Pellets are predictable, dry, easy to handle and store, and a even if they were not the equivalent per ton of a cord of wood, I could buy more than half ton of pellets with the difference in the price. So if I am burning wood, the small rounds would seem to be the cheapest option.

I don't give two hoots about hassle. If I did, I would have bought myself a condo.

HotCoals said:

Now wait a min..lol.
16 cycles at 2.5 mins is 40 minutes x.6 gallons/min is 24 gallons x 4/gall is 96 bucks!
You must have meant 6 to 8 cycles for the day?
Maybe I'm doing the math wrong?

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I did it wrong. gpm should read gph. That would be a mother of a furnace.

BrotherBart said:

I also don't remember, he may have said but I am old and forget stuff, what temp N of 60 maintains in his abode.

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20c/68f @20%rh is more than warm enough. We will have it at 70f when we are home in the evenings.

$300 a month is telling me a waste of energy, house is to big or needs insulation. Thats a good chunk of toy$.

north of 60 said:

HotCoals said:

Now wait a min..lol.
16 cycles at 2.5 mins is 40 minutes x.6 gallons/min is 24 gallons x 4/gall is 96 bucks!
You must have meant 6 to 8 cycles for the day?
Maybe I'm doing the math wrong?

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I did it wrong. gpm should read gph. That would be a mother of a furnace.

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AH!

jeremy85 said:

Just load it up Milt, gets nice and hot with a bunch in there.

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it sure does,

I have been trouble getting good seasoned wood and have been burning the evi bricks, but they are hard to come by around here, where pellets are everywhere. Saw this post and while I am capable of building one, I saw some online ready built for around 100 bucks, so I just ordered one. I think it is a great idea.

tmckenzie said:

I have been trouble getting good seasoned wood and have been burning the evi bricks, but they are hard to come by around here, where pellets are everywhere. Saw this post and while I am capable of building one, I saw some online ready built for around 100 bucks, so I just ordered one. I think it is a great idea.

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Let us know how it works for you along with some pics if you can..

Thanx and good luck!

Ray

Well, the one I ordered was the pelleteer. So far I have been very impressed. I got it in yesterday and last night, since it was not too cold, put maybe half a bag in. That was at 6 30. I stayed down and slept on the couch, it went cold around 1 30. Put out a lot of heat. I am playing around with mixing in pea coal tonight. I think this thing may actually work.

I'd bet an old fry basket from a thrift store would work.

You are right Madrone, it would, if you could get air underneath the pellets. Otherwise, what happens is that you get a nice long slow burn that is not very hot. Right now, I have secondaries and a nice warm room. Primary shut completely down, and the ftrdgyfrt (puppy is typing), stove is right at 300 degrees. Hot enough for a 45 degree windy rainy night.