Testing heat output on pellets

[mepellet]

I once went 26 bags 30+ days straight on grunge burn in a bucket of parts stove burning $199/ton delivered pellets, just couldn't take the mess I saw in the window so I shut it down and cleaned the pour abused parts collection.

Sib? $199/ton delivered... Mmmm

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Sib? $199/ton delivered... Mmmm

Yes, but not this year $229/ton delivered.

 

[mepellet]

Yea I got them from him again this year. If I remember correctly he stated out delivering and have stacking for you even at $199

 

[F4jock]

Support for that please?

Among others: Forestry.edu Firewood Facts. Your own forum, Heating Value of Common Wood Species. There are many more. You'll find I was being somewhat conservative. The Engineering Tool Box - Wood and Combustion Heat Values.

 

[F4jock]

Yea I got them from him again this year. If I remember correctly he stated out delivering and have stacking for you even at $199

You guys are me wish I lived in Maine.

 

[BrotherBart]

http://www.mha-net.org/docs/v8n2/docs/WDBASICS.pdf

 

[F4jock]

Sib? $199/ton delivered... Mmmm

27 bags in 23 days and no mess at all. Ash pan wasn't even full.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

27 bags in 23 days and no mess at all. Ash pan wasn't even full.

There is no real low burn control on my bucket of parts so it will go rich on a very low burn. I need another smidgen of fuel feed control.

 

[F4jock]

http://www.mha-net.org/docs/v8n2/docs/WDBASICS.pdf

And according to the Georgia Forrestry folks the BTU per pound output of oven dried wood can vary from 8500 to 9500 BTU / pound. According to, among many sources, the Encyclopedia of Alternative Energy, there can be a 1000 BTU per pound variation in pellets; 8500 to 9500. You are quoting laboratory conditions. Even then there are variations. I'm talking actual, retail pellets. We can each support our arguments ad infinitum depending on definition and condition of application.

 

[BrotherBart]

Freight Train 12, out.

 

[F4jock]

Freight Train 12, out.

Hunter one zero zero Double Ugly Ball State two seven five zero.

 

[BrotherBart]

Roger ball.

 

[Big papa]

I'm burning pellets too no thermometer except the thermostat for the furnace it always reads 75 no matter what pellets I put in the stove?

 

[Big papa]

Little birdie eight six seven five three o nine

 

[mepellet]

Actually this morning I remembered that my first year burning pellets (2011) I got green team pellets at $177/ton at Lowes.

 

[F4jock]

Actually this morning I remembered that my first year burning pellets (2011) I got green team pellets at $177/ton at Lowes.

I've pretty much given up on Big Box as pellet suppliers. They can't be depended on to have a good supply throughout the season, they don't maintain a consistent supply from one manufacturer and price isn't that much better than my hardware, if at all. I've found a pellet I like and can get as and when needed for a decent price. I be happy.