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  1. So Its close to 0 deg. outside and I put my cold weather pellets in the stove Cubex $7.00 a bag.
    As they are running they are making a clumpy ash in the burn pot. It kind of looks like what comes out of the back end of a small dog. greyish brown and about 1/2 inch round. The fire is hot, as hot as the Okies and Vermonts. Anyone having this problem with this years Cubex?
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  2. colinb93rs New Member

    joined: Oct 31, 2012
    12 posts
    I was having the exact same problem and I purchased my ton of cubex around 2 months ago :(
  3. moey Feeling the Heat

    joined: Jul 12, 2012
    267 posts
    Southern Maine
    yepers, pretty confident I will not buy again
  4. jtakeman Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 30, 2008
    12,723 posts
    Northwestern CT.
    See a few members saying lots of ash and clumps from them lately.
  5. colinb93rs New Member

    joined: Oct 31, 2012
    12 posts
    Just an FYI I spoke with the rep from the company who I purchased the stove from and he told me he has had a few trouble calls from stoves clogging the chimney and were using the cubex pellets.....as he stated the 'high quality' pellets. Not buying those again thats for sure!
  6. movemaine Feeling the Heat

    joined: Nov 28, 2011
    382 posts
    Central Maine
    When my stove was installed last year - we got 2 tons of cubex, and they were the same way - that's why I stopped burning them and moved to softwoods. In my Harman, they ash would clump and push out the sides of the burnpot looking exactly like you described.
  7. Fish On Feeling the Heat

    joined: Oct 19, 2009
    326 posts
    The other Cape..
    Wow that's really sad to hear, my batch last year was awful. They seem to have gone down hill. Good thing there are lots of different pellets to pick from.

    And I was going to buya few bags to test, won't now
  8. jrogers999 Member

    joined: Oct 9, 2011
    125 posts
    Billerica Ma
    Was getting the same from Barefoots. I wasn't impressed.
  9. ivanhoe Member

    another with cubex's problem but i think my stash hideout has a humidity problem this year. my last year's comfort's have also taken some humidity, so put two & two together and we have condensation in the hopper, :mad: the long turd on side of burnpot syndrome exists here too!
  10. PoolGuyinCT Feeling the Heat

    joined: Jan 17, 2012
    327 posts
    Plymouth CT
    Cubex use to give me that nice salt pepper gritty oak ash, my last 2011 yields a jet black fuzzy ash....

    I'm over cubex, my hot new honey pellet is hamer

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