Somersets vs. Green Team...ton for ton I think Green Team wins

I don't doubt Robbie at all, i consider him a straight shooter.

Lowes has sunk really low on this one. Gt are priced a 30 pack away from some top notch pellets now. I'm sure gt must be pissed , lowes isn't blowing out the gt stock overnight anymore.

Robbie and the GT people are making out a-ok in this for now. I have been getting steady emails from them over the past few months since the prices were jacked up letting me know that Lowes has ordered more pellets from them in my area... so it's not as if the GT people aren't getting any more orders from Lowes. Seems like the inventory must be moving at the higher prices for Lowes to continue to order from GT. It will be interesting to see if Lowes runs the special pricing in August again this year, and what that pricing will be at. So far, HD seems to be taking advantage of the Lowes gamble, I am still seeing Stove Chow and Firesides @ $209/ton around me.

My neighbor picked up a ton of 'wood pellets' from our local Lowes two days ago,.not knowing the difference they bought North Americans $209,... they hated them and called the manager,... the manager delivered them a ton of GT's, moved and loaded the remaining 48 bags of North Am in their truck, then moved the GT's and stacked them in the garage for them,.. no charge additional!

I've really only burned Greene Team Gold and Somersets in the last two years and the last year or so its been mostly Somersets cause I can get them easily/regularly at the Menards near me and for a fair price. Picked up a ton on a Sunday about a week ago ($179). Burned for 4-5 days, on both Room/Stove temp mode and noticed my ash pan was almost FULL. I thought, man, that seems pretty fast to fill my ash pan. In past seasons, whether I burned Somersets or Greene Team, I could always burn for at least a week and only have half an ash pan. Now, I'm having to empty the ash pan in between my weekly/bi-weekly deep cleanings. And the ash seems fluffier, where in the past, with the Greene Golds, the ash was very fine.

In conclusion, I've definitely noticed the increase in ash produced by the Somersets that I just purchased. I'll try an experiment and dig deeper into my stash to see if Somersets from last season are any better than the ones I just purchased. More ash = less purity in the pellet?

generally speaking yes,.. starting with cleaner raw materials = less ash

My local lowes has had the same 20+ pallets sitting there since before Sandy came through. They told me that the only pellets that sold was the Somersets that were delivered. I feel bad for anyone that buys them because they have been sitting out in the weather for about 9 weeks now. Hopefully they take notes on what sells and where the price needs to be. I hope the cheat rivers rot on their sidewalks.

For me and my stove the GT's burn hotter than the Sets but with more ash. The Sets do burn fairly hot though.

You have the same stove as myself and I found the green T's very disapointing! Very gritty w/ clinkers and low heat. The Green Supremes were shockingly good for the $$...I don't get it? Everyone hates the supremes overall. Been burning Lacretes and they are good.

I bought some green team.. In my PDVC stove, they are not good at all. Heavy ash, no heat... North Americans burns better than GT.

I have burned all in my mt v this yr... north americans were filling my firebox with three bags requiring me to clean. I can burn over 3 times that amount of gt before i have to do the same. No contest. I would burn na if they were cleaner. For me, the fly ash is what dictates cleaning.

Its just weird how the same pellets are really acting different in everyones stove this year. I haven't seen this much change talked about since I started burning pellets.