What brands of pellets have you burned this year ?

Just curious. Jay is exempt from this question
If he wants to be, since the pellet review thread
exists, and the list is quite long for him.


Here's my list in order of burning:

Maine's Choice
Cleanfire Hardwood
Maine Woods
Fireside Ultra
Energex
Greene Team

* nothing else to do on a saturday at 6 in the morning when I can't sleep.

ok...I'm in:

Clean Energy
Stove Chow
Pellheat
Winter Warmth
Lignetics
TreeCycle
Harhwood Heat
Presto Logs

So far I've burned:
Grannuels LG
Maine's Choice
CleanFires

Curran softwood and mix. I may have to try some Okies soon since Currans are bein dropped in my backyard. You dont get much clout with a pellet company when you only sell a few truckloads a year, I guess.

Buy at 205 per ton landed, sell 200 tons at $55 dollars profit ($260 per ton) for a total of $11,000 GP or sell 500 tons at $25 bucks a ton each ($230 per ton) $12,500 profit. 1000 tons at $20 a ton each, like my neighbors? $20,000 a year? 5 times the work, forklift fuel, broken bags, etc for something that is still a fraction of our business?

Sorry, I like the first choice. 200 tons a year I can do by myself and still run the showroom and our propane department solo. 1000 tons, I'd need to hire someone, so that extra $8,000 would get eaten up pretty fast.

BareFoot
Hamers Hot Ones
TreeCycle (after 3 or 4 bags of these I gave up on this brand for this year)

Stove Chow: hottest pellet I've burned, relatively clean burning
Pennington's Nature's Heat: Cleanest burning, lowest ash/soot, but least amount of heat
Freedom Fuel: Dirtiest burning, not as hot as Stove Chow
Presto Logs: Almost as much heat as Stove Chow, somewhat more ash

TreeCycle - They gave decent heat but gave off a lot of ash. 3 tons from Lowes back in September started to burn in mid-Nov. Gone now.

Stove Chow - mostly cause they are cheap, this is what I'm finishing the year with. I bought a few bags a week ago and they give about the same heat as TC but with less ash. Not a lot less but certainly less. Maybe I should have measured it lol.

Somerset

Great heat, very low ash, $3.48 at Menard's.

Okanagan - one ton burned
Barefoot - one ton burned
Cleanfire - 20 bags burned
Lignetics - 8 bags burned
Greene Team - burning now til the end of the season
Vermont Wood Pellet - only two bags to try em
Nations Choice - two bags to try em
Stove Chow - two bags to try em
Maines Choice - two bags to try em

ok, this is what I've fed my stove so far---------

Hamers
NEWP
Stove Chow
Okanagan

The Hamers have been a real good burning pellet in my stove.
NEWP were ok but had more ash.
Stove Chow were similar to the NEWP
Okie's had good heat but too much dust.

NEWP
Okanagan
Dragon Mountain
Lignetics
Fireside Ultra
Green Team
Stove Chow
Maine's Best

Hamers Hot Ones :roll:
Energex American
Greenway - (2 tons still in the shed left from this year's supply) :cheese:
Stove Chow - (6 tons in the shed for next year's supply) ;-)

Granules LG
Maine Woods
Cubex

I should be set until the first of 2013. But I'm still looking as I have some room and can make more ;-).

Barefoot Premier Stove Chow Vermont

2 ton of summersets. so-far best pellet I have burned, great heat and very low ash. going to pick up a few bags of stove chow and see how the stove likes them.

Barefoot - Horrible (8/09,5/09 Batches)
Okanagan - Great

1 ton Pro Pellets (gone) Good pellet

1 ton AWF's (20 bags or so left) not a fan- Way to long. Some over 2"

3 tons Somersets (20 bags or so left)
Great pellet $175/ton

Burned several bags of the following:
Penningtons
Stove Chow (Can't find anywhere now)

5 tons of Presto Logs - to finish this season and 2011-2012 season.

MWP
3 or 4 bags Maine Choice now that the pile is down to them

Stove Chow*
Premier Hardwood
Rocky Mtn.
Barefoot
Spruce Pointe*
Okanagans*
Cubex*
Tree Cycle*
Maine Choice*

* burned only 1 or 2 "test" bags

North Idaho energy log pellets
Atlas ultra premium
Blazers
Northwest pride

Best to Worst list for my Quadrafire 1200i

1. Oakanagans - "Coldest Day Of The Year... High Heat Pellet, very...very clean burning with very little ash, More Fines than normal, No Clinkers " Most expensive pellet $279 per ton

2. Stove Chow - "Best Bang For The Buck Pellet" Very Good Heat, clean burning, very little ash, No Clinkers. $187 per ton

3. Green Team - " Runner-up Best Bang For The Buck Pellet" Very Good Heat, clean burning, very little ash, No Clinkers. Inventory at Lowes was minimal on Green Team this year. $187 per ton

4. Maine's Choice - "Good Heat, Slightly More Ash, Few More fines, Several Clinkers" $187 per ton

5. Fireside Ultras - "Good Heat, Slightly More Ash, Few More fines, Several Clinkers" $187 per ton

6. Freedom Fuel - "Average Heat, Dirty burning with Lots of ash, No fines, No clinkers. Larger diameter pellet, which seemed to burn longer requiring less fill-ups of the hopper, but did not deliver the heat. $187 per ton

How did you like MWP ?

lingnetis
fireside ultra
stove chow
pa pellets

Hey folks,
Been really busy since Christmas. Haven't had any time at all to check in here.

Here's my list for the season so far:
Barefoot
Pennington Nature's Heat
Freedom Fuel
Maine Woods
Clean Energy (Lowes)
Stove Chow
Lignetics (blend)
Maine's Choice
Potomac
Inferno
PWI
Vermont Wood Pellet
Blazers
Cubex
Energex
Fireside Ultra
New England Wood Pellet

I was very impressed with the Fireside Ultras especially for the HD price. I was only able to get them one time now. HD is back to stocking Stove Chow again (or was last week anyway).

Going out for pellets again today. Let's see what I come home with this time...........

Edit: came home with "generic" MWP. See this thread -

So far this year I've burnt 1 ton of Somersets, and 2 Tons of ProPellets. And one bag of AWF just to try. I will say in my stove the ProPellets give me more heat and burn better than the Somersets. Although ProPellets give you alittle more ash, but for the heat its worth it.