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  1. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,941 posts
    Northern Virginia
    It is my annual post in the hearth room but now lets do it with the pellet pigs.

    ..you can tell within two degrees the difference between two brands of pellets.

    ...you can spot two wet bags on a pallet from across the parking lot.

    Go for it.
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  2. Bigjim13 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Jan 5, 2009
    451 posts
    Central Vermont
    You drive by a house with pellets in the yard and

    1. Can tell the brand by the silhouette you see through the plastic

    And

    2. Wonder why the owner hasn't moved them out of the elements!
    mepellet likes this.
  3. nailed_nailer Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 29, 2007
    704 posts
    Cape Cod, Ma
    You don't even try to explain to a retailers management why Infernos suck.
    ---Nailer---
  4. DexterDay Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 11, 2010
    9,055 posts
    NE Ohio
    You Know You Are A Real Pellet Burner If.......

    You have enough pellets and stoves to heat your entire state :)
    SmokeyTheBear, jtakeman and The Ds like this.
  5. thedude110 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Aug 12, 2011
    269 posts
    Central Connecticut
    After 13 hours at work you come home and start refreshing "The Pellet Mill," even though you pretty much know you have no useful information to share.
    jgrz0610 and SmokeyTheBear like this.
  6. Dinger Member

    joined: Nov 23, 2011
    140 posts
    SW CO
    You pick out a pellet vent on a house that's not yours, from several hundred feet away.
  7. St_Earl Minister of Fire

    the amount of pellets you pour, in one shot, from the bag into the hopper, is the precise amount it takes to fill it to the brim (after leveling) over 98% of the time.
    SmokeyTheBear likes this.
  8. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,941 posts
    Northern Virginia
    When people come to visit they don't have layers to take off because they are dressed like they have to at their house. And they suffer for it.
  9. ....you prefer the smell of pellets instead of coffee to wake yourself up in the morning.
  10. oldmountvernon Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 27, 2011
    2,157 posts
    SE Mass
    your wife serves you pellets as a side [IMG]
    tbuff, thedude110, CT Pellet and 3 others like this.
  11. bbfarm Feeling the Heat

    joined: Jan 2, 2012
    330 posts
    wisconsin
    1. you know one of your neighbors got a pellet stove, because the exhaust smells different than yours.

    2. you see the same neighbors unloading a ton of pellets and think "oh no, they bought the crappy pellets"
    SmokeyTheBear likes this.
  12. mralias Minister of Fire

    joined: Apr 29, 2008
    616 posts
    MA
    See OMV
  13. CT Pellet Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 1, 2012
    645 posts
    Torrington, CT
    You know your'e a real pellet burner.....
    ....If you have learned to smell the difference between Barefoot, Turman and Somerset:)

    ....If you have learned to feel the difference in heat between your "good stuff" vs. your neighbors "shoulders-only" pellets, regardless of who's burning what!!!:p

    ....If you understand exactly why, after making pellets for many years that were only available in specialty retail shops, a manufacturer suddenly decides to sell to "Big-Box" stores and then comes out with a different name on their bag every year for 4 years in a row and all this doesn't make you say hmmmmm? :cool:
    SmokeyTheBear likes this.
  14. IHATEPROPANE Minister of Fire

    joined: Feb 24, 2011
    800 posts
    Southern,MA
    Your late for work because you followed a truck full of covered skids only to find out it is fertilizer !!
  15. SmokeyTheBear Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 10, 2008
    11,440 posts
    Standish, ME
    You know both air paths through your stove better than the manufacturer and what cleaning them actually means.
    ltlhawk, heat seeker and CT Pellet like this.
  16. djs_net Member

    joined: Nov 25, 2011
    178 posts
    CT
    ...you stop in at stores to check what pellet brands they have even though you are fully stocked and have no more room.
  17. MCPO Minister of Fire

    You`re a real pellet pig if you buy pellets and don`t even have a stove to burn them in.
    Bob Sorjanen likes this.
  18. If you look forward to this Bribble !
  19. ironpony Minister of Fire

    joined: Jan 22, 2010
    1,396 posts
    mid-ohio
    if you have in excess of twenty ton, of top shelf pellets, in storage, inside a climate controlled warehouse.

    take that OMV, storing pellets outside in the elements................:p
  20. oldmountvernon Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 27, 2011
    2,157 posts
    SE Mass
    No more outside storage i get to roll around in them at anytime. you have to plan a trip to visit yours :p
  21. DAKSY Super Moderator

    Probably need a little sausage gravy on that...
  22. ironpony Minister of Fire

    joined: Jan 22, 2010
    1,396 posts
    mid-ohio
    I see them everyday, just look out my office door into the ware house.........
  23. CT Pellet Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 1, 2012
    645 posts
    Torrington, CT
    Unfortunately, as I have come to learn, you don't need to know a whole lot about your stove in order to "out-know" the manufacturer's reps. Kinda silly, but very much a reality.
  24. CT Pellet Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 1, 2012
    645 posts
    Torrington, CT
    Only amatures do pellets without gravy. And sweet jesus OMV....keep buttering your spud like that we're gunn be missing you really soon!
  25. Cleetussnow New Member

    joined: Oct 3, 2012
    83 posts
    Westchester, ny
    If you find some pellets on a business trip you never heard of, take a bag as your carry on luggage to get them home to test and post results on pellet mill
    SteveB likes this.

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