Riddle Master Morgon said:
Storing outside is perfectly fine as long as they are packaged correct. My Barefoots came on brandnew wood crates, the bottom had extra paper, each bag has plastic and around all bags was a super heavy duty plastic wrap as well. I have zero concern they would be effected even in the recent hurricane.
As for humidity of the pellet and the pellet being wood shredded in small and accessible pieces - would one not expect that their humidity equals air humidity pretty much ? Maybe the humidity/temperature of your air supply has more impact on the burn than the humidity of the pellet ? The few that are actually falling into the fire at each time ?
Pellets are no fire wood, old rules dont apply...
Why take a risk??? Thats not worth taking... Pellets take up a floor space area of less than 16 sq ft, for 1 ton... Takes up less room than an average closet.
This "Fiber" is dried to a much lower level of Moisture, than whats in the air..... The relative Humidity is much higher than the moisture content of the pellet. They dont just take saw dust and jam it together really tight and call it a pellet. The entire process is a science. Must have a good fiber, thats dried to X moisture content (Depends on a Standard, Premium, or Super Premium Pellet), then its ran through the mill and thats where more heat is generated that produces a Lignin coating, to semi-protect the pellet from moisture. Then there air dried/air cooled on racks. Cant bag a hot pellet. Then there bagged in bags that have holes....
I dont know about the actual moisture difference in the air affecting the pellet... But water/rain on a pellet bag is still not good... Storing pellets outside "MIGHT" be o.k... Until you break the seal... Even then, the wood pallet and paper on the bottom can absorb moisture and then the bottom row of pellets gets wet. Once there wet, it leads to the 2nd row... And so on....
The bags of Hamer's you just bought are not as protected as you think... Pellet bags have holes throughout them... Some more than others. But they all are perforated in some way, to let the bags/pellets breathe. Little bit of water water goes a long way in a bag of pellets.. Better to be safe than sorry.., Thats taking a gamble... A losing gamble.