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Flammam

Feeling the Heat
Dec 29, 2007
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Western, Ma.
Ran 5 bags of Dry Creek Pellets through my stove over the last week. Cold, ashey and dirty are the words I would use to describe them. Local Agway has them for 269 ton. I'll stick to the Green Supreme I got in the garage.
 
I bought 7 tons of dry creek for this season. I had them maybe 5 years ago and they were pretty good. This year not so much. Besides being dirty and not burning as hot as I remember they are also extremely long with many in each bag over 2 inches. I experienced bridging a few weeks back and woke up to a cold stove and cold house. I now take the time and effort to break as many of the long pellets as I can. This is the last time I'll ever buy dry creek. They've obviously gone down hill.
 
i sure did not like them and boy was there some long pellets in the bag. i could hear my auger groan a few times. never burn them again.
 
Dry Creek is now owned by PA pellets. I was hoping they wouldn't loose quality as the Dry Creek were a decent pellet IMHO. I was hoping PA would take some lessons from Dry Creek and improve the PA brand. PA's were marginal and I really didn't like them. Same report as what you are saying with the latest Dry Creeks, Long pellets and pretty ashy. Seems the oposite has happened. Not what I was expecting! :red:
 
j-takeman said:
Dry Creek is now owned by PA pellets. I was hoping they wouldn't loose quality as the Dry Creek were a decent pellet IMHO. I was hoping PA would take some lessons from Dry Creek and improve the PA brand. PA's were marginal and I really didn't like them. Same report as what you are saying with the latest Dry Creeks, Long pellets and pretty ashy. Seems the oposite has happened. Not what I was expecting! :red:

What a shame they lowered the quality on the DC.
 
Dry creek is my shoulder pellet this season. They work well for those warmer months.
 
Being new to pellet heating I have no experiance yet with any brand except the D/C which I got two tons of when I picked up my stove. I seemed to fill up ash pan alot sooner than the Manufacturer suggested. Instead of a ton it was pretty full after 8 bags. I was running on minimum burn do to warm weather. I will now scrape burn pot more ofton.I will be trying some other pellets when i can.
 
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