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  1. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    I am :)

    I figger when all you pellet pigs are sittin around here this winter whining about how cold it is outside I'm gonna dump another bag of black hills in the hopper and watch my tubes turn orange :cool:
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  2. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    Or making lots of trips to empty the cheetah vac LOL
    slvrblkk and oldmountvernon like this.
  3. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    A little birdy told me next week
  4. jtakeman Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 30, 2008
    12,742 posts
    Northwestern CT.
    Was he cawing like an agry old crow or chirping like a sparrow? :p
  5. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    I was thinking more flying like a vulture here ;lol

    omv ya killin me
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  6. jtakeman Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 30, 2008
    12,742 posts
    Northwestern CT.
    Turkey buzzard! ==c

    Hopefully you get em quick and they burn nice! Keep us posted on them?
  7. Andy P. Member

    joined: Dec 21, 2011
    91 posts
    Central Mass.
    Are you getting them from Rogers?
  8. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    I have it on good authority (this guy is stalking me by the way, he reads what I say here and emails me LOL) these will be into the plant today and will be bagging later or tomorrow and ready for pickup as soon as tomorrow. I got a ton wonder how many others they sold. Now I HOPE these come minus the internal organic bag shields and automatic hopper dammers that the Okies had in this last batch.
  9. jtakeman Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 30, 2008
    12,742 posts
    Northwestern CT.
    Doug? Who's Doug! :p

    No emails so things must be Okie dokie(pun intended! ==c)
  10. jtakeman Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 30, 2008
    12,742 posts
    Northwestern CT.
    Trust me, Its only when he needs or wants something. If I ever get to upton?
  11. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    Looks like we're headin to the black hills for Thanksgiving WOOHOO :)
  12. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    Comments...

    The fines look about the same as the straight okies I got a few weeks ago.
    Bags are STRONG. We ripped a 5x5 hole in one putting it in the truck when it got hung up on the ceiling. I picked it off the top of the pile and carried it upstairs one handed using the hole as a handle. Best bags out there.
    Pellets dumped in the hods have an interesting "sound" to them....or lack thereof. They have a sound deadening quality to them. Usually when you drop pellets in the empty hod it makes a loud noise, these don't. The color of the pellets isn't consistent which is something I've never seen before. Must be something they are doing. Some pellets are lighter colored and some are darker colored. It looks like a mix if you were to look at it close. I seriously doubt that but just posting what I see. Same "dead" sound when you dump them in the hopper. No little tick/tinkle noise like you hear on most pellets.

    Lengths are not what you see in normal Okies. Not anything wrong but these are more like pellets than the chippy/finesy stuff that you associate with okies. There's a more rounded size of pellets from 1/4 to 1" long.

    I'm shutting my email off I sense someone watching ROFLMAO
  13. jtakeman Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 30, 2008
    12,742 posts
    Northwestern CT.
    Hows the heat(IMHO the most important part)?
  14. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    I got a half hopper of lacretes n trebios in right now I'll tell you tomorrow morning I'm going to run straight black hills now. I figure the hopper will be fully black hills by the am then I'll tell you.

    I did my standard 1/2 handful open the door throw in test. I could feel the heat difference 12' away. ROAR :)
  15. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    Don't be putting words in my mouth yet :)
  16. iron stove Feeling the Heat

    joined: Sep 14, 2009
    371 posts
    Central CT
    PICS of the product ?
  17. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    Stand by your wish is my command.
  18. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    There's a pic of the bottom of the bag. As I said fines look the same.....more after dinner

    photo111.JPG
  19. Woody1911a1 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Sep 23, 2012
    252 posts
    Marblehead , Ma
    thinking they made a BIG mistake using clear bags . that said how would our other pellets look through clear bags ?
  20. jtakeman Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 30, 2008
    12,742 posts
    Northwestern CT.
    Unfortunately, Not that bad. Turmans uses a clear bag, as do a few others. The clear bags was so you can see what yer getting. I'd like to get a bag to see what the percentage of fines is! Odd thing is they wanted to bag them locally to reduce the fines. Doesn't seem to be working!.

    Sorry Doug, This just isn't exceptable!
  21. pell it Member

    joined: Dec 2, 2011
    224 posts
    Rhode Island
    Is Upton a bagging plant or a grinding and then bagging plant?
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  22. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    I think it's more of a bagging followed by grinding plant.
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  23. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    K here's a hod of Black Hills. The second pic is a hod of Lacretes which are virtually the same color as okies. These pics will give you an idea of the color and differences in the pellets as I mentioned earlier.

    J tell ya buddy to give you a bag. photo113.JPG
  24. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
    Here's the Lacrete's. Photo taken 2' away in same room so color temperature etc is the same for color comparison.

    photo112.JPG
  25. Salty Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 2, 2009
    574 posts
    Central Ma
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    :)

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