Coldest Night in NorthEast tonight since last March - What brand wood pellets will you use?

Dropped down to 12 lat night, switched over to Pellheat for a few days.

21 here in Eastern Mass. Still trying to burn up these Fireside Ultras from last year. They are def a shoulder pellet. I'm running room temp so we stayed at 70* all night downstairs on roughly 1/2 bag. Will be glad when these are gone......Go Pats.

Ditto.

19 degrees outside this A.M.

referee38 said:

Burning Hamers and its cold here also in Eastern Pa.

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Which pellets to burn last night???
I have about 4 1/2 tons of Turmans left for the winter. So, knowing that it was going to be really cold last night, I went into the garage and looked at all 4 1/2 pallets. I tried to figure out which of them had the hottest burning pellets out of all of them. Just for kicks, I opened up pallet number 5. Took out a bag, topped off my hopper, crossed my fingers and went to bed. I must have had luck on my side last night because I woke up this morning to a stove with no ash build up and the house was 73 degrees. I thought to myself, "nice pick last night". Then, come to think of it, thats what I wake up to EVERY morning!
Stay warm my friends.
My husband and I are off to get or Christmas tree today! Maybe I will post a pic if I don't endulge in too much cheer this afternoon.

oldmountvernon said:

Hardwood heat ( rebagged hamers ) 24 degrees
Tried something new set it to sunflower fuel -5 flame height ( im pretty sure the flame height is the feed rate ?) Set it to Manual, Medium setting, stat set at 74 72 downstairs 65/66 upstairs. Used about a bag. i would expect using that amount since i had it set to sunflower setting but thought i would have been warmer upstairs since i had it blowing on Medium. Will try Medium/High tonight i guess the hourly forecast suggests it will be 19 degrees here monday morning brrrr

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The only problem with switching to the sunflower setting is that you are really going to burn through pellets. You'll get some awesome heat but at a price!

26 degrees outside right now!! I threw in some green team only becouse i bought 3 bags at $5.49 there pretty hot but i wouldn't say worth that price i just threw a bag of green supreme on top of them!! Hey im warm shorts and no socks

Has anybody found wood pieces in there fireside ultras the last batch 10/11 has wood splinters in there

Cooper said:

Has anybody found wood pieces in there fireside ultras the last batch 10/11 has wood splinters in there

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My are from 2010...sorry. No splinters though.

I'm with vettechick. Just Turmans in the basement and they kept our house toasty warm last night. I enjoyed experimenting with different pellets for a couple years, but I grew tired of that "I can't wait to burn through these pellets because they s*&k feeling" so I just buy one brand now. I'm hoping they continue to maintain their good quality. I do always look at what pellets are around, but I haven't been buying. It practically took a 12 step program to be able to do that.

got down to 14 here last night...
still running mwp without a problem..
unfortunately have to shut her down this am to do the weekly cleaning...
cranked it up to 75 for an hour to get it hot before shutting it down...

We are burning the MWP for now, House is toasty warm. Nice to have pellets that are from a local manufacturer that are a really good pellet and reasonably priced. I'll be switching over to Energex soon. I have 3 tons left from last year that I need to use up. I'll get good heat from them, but will be busy cleaning up after them. That's ok, could be a lot worse.

A balmy 28F last night, much better than -18F we had Monday night. Burning Heartland pellets, nice hot fire.

still learning how to run things rite. burning penningtons and the house dipped from 72 at bed time to 64 this morning. turnrd the stove up to 6-6 and now the house temp is climbing. its about 19 outside. i have a ton of them and a ton of awf. and i think the awf are better so i will start to run them for now and see what happens.

MWP worked fine for us...

Toasty where I am, not so outside. There was no new low for this season this morning. Temperature was 15 something outside and there was plenty of frost and the water in the little coop froze overnight. When it warms up a bit I'm going to cut up some pumpkin as a peace offering to the gals in the little coop.

imacman said:

Just trying to finish burning the crappy Northern Pellets (Lowes) that I got from a friend....used them as shoulder season fuel, and happy to report that I only have 1 bag left....good riddance!

BTW, 25°F here right now....supposed to get down to about 22-23 tonight. BRRRRRRR

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There goes my camper plumbing. I left it up there 2 months ago thinking I was going back in a couple weeks to winterize and things around here kept me from going. I guess I'll see what will be wrong with anything by the end of this week.

It was about 28* last night here and I went through 6 logs of maple that was only seasoned 3 months, talk about crappy wood or maybe it was the crappy seasoner. I'm saving the 14 month seasoned wood(mostly maple) for the really cold nights.

Thank goodness for the flip of a switch on the pellet stove. Burning GT's only so far and it was 59 in the kitchen, where stove is, when I came down this morning, now it's 81 and climbing. Stove running med/heat low/fan. I'll shut down around 11am.

Burned Pro-Pellets through the night ....73 downstairs, they did a good job!

it was about 18 degrees when i got up this morning
and was 67 in the kitchen and a couple degrees cooler
in the bedroom which is fine with me

the stove was running on 3 out of 9 with the blower on 7

been trying differant brands of pellets and last night was
a bag of blue label Lignetics from Tractor Supply and
i need to give them a thumbs down...not alot of heat
and quite ashy...i have a couple bags from Lowes that
are a hardwood softwood blend to try next.

and a question for the CT guys...does CTPellet sell
by the bag or only bulk ???

Mid 20's at my place , burning Greene Team in my EF2I.
Fan on low and the dial a fire at about 10:00
69 in the Living room this morning about 65 or so in the bedroom.

SmokeyTheBear said:

Toasty where I am, not so outside. There was no new low for this season this morning. Temperature was 15 something outside and there was plenty of frost and the water in the little coop froze overnight. When it warms up a bit I'm going to cut up some pumpkin as a peace offering to the gals in the little coop.

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Do you have the coop far away from any electicity? I'm asking as I'm still trying to find a way to keep the one I put together at my parents', from freezing. I don't have electric near it and so far it's been ok but last night was the first freeze. This is my first winter with this coop and am trying to find a way. I hope my featherless necks LOL(turkens/naked necks), don't freeze dry. I already have to deal with the new hatchings from last night into today, from freezing over, had two hens in the last month go brody on me and one had 9 three weeks ago and still waiting to count last nights hatchlings from the second hen.

ITBURNS(AKA pelletnubi) said:

SmokeyTheBear said:

Toasty where I am, not so outside. There was no new low for this season this morning. Temperature was 15 something outside and there was plenty of frost and the water in the little coop froze overnight. When it warms up a bit I'm going to cut up some pumpkin as a peace offering to the gals in the little coop.

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Do you have the coop far away from any electicity? I'm asking as I'm still trying to find a way to keep the one I put together at my parents', from freezing. I don't have electric near it and so far it's been ok but last night was the first freeze. This is my first winter with this coop and am trying to find a way. I hope my featherless necks LOL(turkens/naked necks), don't freeze dry. I already have to deal with the new hatchings from last night into today, from freezing over, had two hens in the last month go brody on me and one had 9 three weeks ago and still waiting to count last nights hatchlings from the second hen.

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Both of our coops have electricity, the little coop doesn't have an electric water heater, the big one does. So the little coop gets its waterer swapped out several times a day in cold weather. The big coop has a heater for its large metal waterer (the temperature has to get really low for a long time for that one to freeze). The birds don't seem to notice the temperatures. Mamma will tend to the peeps just make sure she has water and food close.

If I get tired of the chore I can always put the chickens into the big coop. But they like having the extra room.

I am running Hamer's thru right now. 22 this morning. Starts to bring ice fishing ideas into my head! House is warm and comfortable.

Low 20s in S. NH. 68 degrees both floors(2500s/f) all night on 3feed/6blower with Geneva pellets. Didn't turn the stove on last night until we got home at 9pm.

Its cold outside? I really couldn't tell. ;-)

Still burning shoulder stuff and less than a bag a day. Greene Teams are doing just fine for me. Cubex/Hamers waiting for the really cold spell if and when it comes this season?

Been burning LGs but will switch to Okies or Spruce Pointe when it gets colder.
So far been a mild winter.

oldmountvernon said:

ByCo said:

A balmy 28F last night, much better than -18F we had Monday night. Burning Heartland pellets, nice hot fire.

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when i bought my used stove few months ago it came with a ton of Heartland i found they burnt pretty good in time to hold onto them for the winter. Since they were free i was just wasting them burning them up. What do you pay for them ?

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I got mine at my local farm & fleet for $199.50/ton. From the research that I did on the company that makes them it sounds like they are mostly only available in the upper great plains and rockies, they had a couple of east coast dealers because of shipping costs. Here's a link to the parent companies web site, maybe an email to the sales manager would give you a list of dealers in your area. There isn't much for information, their heating pellets page is blank.

http://www.neimanenterprises.com/home.html