Stove Chow Jamming my 25-PDVC

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msh227

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Nov 20, 2010
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Eastern PA
Has anyone else had this issue?

Last year I burned 1 ton of chows and was happy with them. Bought my 1st ton this season and ended up with a jammed auger every 5-6 bags. My stove will burn anything and all pellets that I have tried keep my house plenty warm. But I noticed that the chow pellets are super long 2"+ in some cases and are jamming in the shaft connecting the top auger shaft to lower auger shaft.

I just recently burned a few bags of Hamers, Presto logs, Clean Energy, and even Cheat River and found that all of them had smaller sized pellets than the Stove Chows. Out of the 4 brands I had a total of 28 bags and my stove didn't jam once.

I'm glad that I have figured out why my stove was jamming, now I just hope HD and Lowes continue to carry other brands besides cheat river and stove chow.

Any other 25-PDVC users experience this with their stoves?
 
Don't have the same stove, but of the 4 tons of Stove Chow I've burned so far, haven't seen any pellets pushing 2"! Just average-sized stuff in mine.
 
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