What Pellet to buy??

300 sounds like a lot for Okies. Even a lot for Barefoot, but Barefoot are a little harder to find so more expensive. For me it would be a no-brainer. I loved the Barefoot so far and the Okies are hot but had some other issues. I paid more for the Barefoot than Okies. I did some recent comparing here and here.

Neither, for that price....that $$ is way high. :bug:

Do some more shopping/calling around.

imacman said:

Neither, for that price....that $$ is way high. :bug:

Do some more shopping/calling around.

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Got a place up here in Southern NH selling Okies for about $360

I have burned pellets for 4 years. I always end up with different pellets every year, bought from different sources. And you know what, each year the result is the same--4 tons used. I shop by price.

Tom C.

$300 and $360 for Okies, sort of reminds me of the government paying $16 for a muffin. Good pellet, yes, but the profit of a big bank! There again, they will charge whatever the traffic will bear.

Well I can get Cubex for $279/ton (Okies are at $299/ton and Barefoot are MIA at the moment) and it just so happens that there is a Cubex dealer within ten miles of Gardner.

Maybe time for a change.

I have never tried oakies. So far the only thing available has been prestos, green team, stove chow , awf, and lignetics. I burned 20 bags of lignetics last year at the end of the season for $5.49 a bag. The heat was a tad greater than the others. I reaaly liked the stove chow from last year. So far the AWF pelletes are buning nice. I had 4 ton delivered of the awf and green team for $700 from Lowes. Price does matter.

Gabe said:

HI SmokeyTheBear, Where can I buy cubex? Will love to try them.
Thanks Gabe

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Website with address and telephone number.

http://www.spurias.com/index.html

Need to factor delivery into the cost. I just made the same choice between Okies and Barefoot. Chose Barefoot because I already have had a very good experience with them, and haven't tried Okies. The Barefoot are coming to a bit under $300 per ton delivered. Yeah, I can make multiple runs in the car and pick up 10 bags at a time of random-brand lesser pellets at currently $5 a bag (TSC), and I've done some runs like that; or possibly cheaper at HD except the Fireside Ultras they currently stock aren't kind to my burn pot. Gas and time and labor factored in, paying an extra $1 a bag for pellets that burn hotter and cleaner, and get dropped in my yard ... not a hard choice.

My faves are Vermont, but am told by the local supplier there are "production problems" at the mill this year.

xraycer said:

imacman said:

Neither, for that price....that $$ is way high. :bug:

Do some more shopping/calling around.

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Got a place up here in Southern NH selling Okies for about $360

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$360 for Okies?……wouldn't that be for a 1.3 ton pallet…..or $277 per ton….?????

For those prices burning dino fuel would seem cheaper to me.

sinnian said:

For those prices burning dino fuel would seem cheaper to me.

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I don't think so, dino juice is north of $3.30 a gallon and at that rate pellets at $396 a ton is a wash.

save$ said:

$300 and $360 for Okies, sort of reminds me of the government paying $16 for a muffin. Good pellet, yes, but the profit of a big bank! There again, they will charge whatever the traffic will bear.

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Yeah. I bought a pellet stove to save $$$. Definitely shop around. Some of these pellet prices are just plain ridiculous.

HD charges 197 a ton--do you really get 35% more heat with the super premium brands?

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SmokeyTheBear said:

sinnian said:

For those prices burning dino fuel would seem cheaper to me.

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I don't think so, dino juice is north of $3.30 a gallon and at that rate pellets at $396 a ton is a wash.

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yes but a wash is a lose still cant beat turning the thermostat vs pellets if its a wash

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Well not exactly but I'm not going to get into that matter in this thread.

Note there is almost a $100/ton difference between the $3.30 a gallon wash price and the price the OP was quoting and further that my $3.30 a gallon rate is less than what one is likely to find in New England. Currently the low price in my area is $3.43 a gallon the average price is over $3.50 a gallon.

Someone posted Tractor Supply has pellets for 179 per ton---unless your stove is too small for your house, I don't see how the super-premium brands can be objectively justified.

I'm new to this forum, but not new to burning pellets. I just got a account setup this past thursday. I have been burning pellets now for 5 years. I have a Englander stove, model 25 PDVC/55-SHP10. It requires alot of maintance but does heat nicely. I have tried alot of different brands of pellets, over the years. What seems to work decent & I like the best are Hamer's Hot Ones. They seem to throw out the best heat with low ash build up. Somersets really seem to be good also. I did try a new brand early this season that really burned good & that was Hardwood Heat pellets from TSC. Somerset was my 2nd best but hardwood heat I think were better then them. Other peelets that also were good also are turnman & pennwood. These are really the only pellets as of now that I would consider burning.

titanracer said:

I'm new to this forum, but not new to burning pellets. ........I did try a new brand early this season that really burned good & that was Hardwood Heat pellets from TSC.....

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Welcome to the forum.

Just so you know, Hardwood Heat pellets are made by Hamer....same pellet in a private label bag for TSC.

Seems like the best case scenario you will get approx 11% more heat with the best pellets versus the cheapest. Based on price per BTU the expensive brands are hard to justify.

imacman said:

titanracer said:

I'm new to this forum, but not new to burning pellets. ........I did try a new brand early this season that really burned good & that was Hardwood Heat pellets from TSC.....

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Welcome to the forum.

Just so you know, Hardwood Heat pellets are made by Hamer....same pellet in a private label bag for TSC.

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Thats COOL They really worked good also.

Thanks for the info..

celticsgreen said:

Seems like the best case scenario you will get approx 11% more heat with the best pellets versus the cheapest. Based on price per BTU the expensive brands are hard to justify.

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One would think so, but that isn't always the case. Funny thing about ash producing fuels, they tend to botch up the efficiency of heat exchangers.