lorne41 said:
schmeg said:
I've burned a ton or so of Okie's from Evergreen this winter. Great pellet. I also burned a ton or so of Cubies I got from Rockie's stove shop in Augusta. They are nice too. I get more heat from the Okie's though. I think it's because the Cubex are longer and don't feed the same through my stove. Good to hear someone in Bangtown is picking up Cubex. I'm currently burning Barefoot. My stove loves them. Very clean and very hot. I'm getting them at 275 a ton. Certainly not a great deal, but pellets around here are never a great deal. I'll put 5 tons of these in the garage by end of April.
Evening Schmeg,
Good to hear from another Mainer! I burned a couple of bags of Cubex last year and found they did burn hot and clean. I've burned 1.5 tons of HD Winter Warmth ( Hamer's Hot Ones) most of the Winter and they burned HOT with a little ash. The rest of the Winter I've been burning Green Team
(Lowes) and they are really good and clean but not as hot as the HD Winter Warmth pellets. I've still got some of the Green Team on hand and 1/2 a bag in my pellet stove that I'm burning right now and will load the Okies in after they run out. I agree with you about price and I really hate to pay the prices that we have up here in Maine, especially when I read that other forum members are getting Okies for $225.00 and less.... $ 275.00 to $300.00 is the average here for quality pellets with medium grade ones for around $250.00. I don't know if I'll be burning much of the Okies until it's gets cool and rainy again, the next 4 days are lookin' warm and sunny, something we're not used too....
lorne41...let me clear something up for you and anyone else here... Any Okanagan product that is selling ANYWHERE in New England for $225 or less has special circumstances behind it. Maybe it was older stock left outside too long (EVERYTHING is now stored inside, so this will NEVER be repeated...EVER...at least by us, can's speak for any dealer how they store the product)...or a dealer is blowing stock out to either get more space in their yard or just turning stock into cash at whatever price they can get. There isn't a single dealer that can buy clean, fresh, new stock for that price and make a profit....their cost is more than this....
We have two warehouses that service the New England market and the closer a dealer is to one or both of them, typically the less they pay, but even if a dealer picks up the product themselves, they have a cost more than $225. As I have mentioned on here before, we did have a couple of those special circumstances that arose last season, but as far as I know, ALL of that stock has been now sold, or if not there is very little left...For those lucky enough to find some and take advantage of the pricing...consider yourself special.
We can't sell it for less and a dealer can't sell it for anything close to that price and make enough profit to even make it worthwhile or really even cover his costs, let alone make a true profit....so please don't be fooled thinking those older prices are anything close to more recent or normal pricing of the product... You know the ol' saying....If it looks too good to be true...it probably is ......
