How do you tell who the manufacturer is of TSC pellets? Is there a way to read the barcode? Local TSC has hardwood pellets. Bought a bag @ $5.29 to try out. If they are good, I'll buy more, but if they change suppliers, I'll try one bag before buying bulk.
Who makes TSC pellets?
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If you have a smartphone download the igepir app, it's a barcode scanner and if available will tell you who the manufacturer is if you scan the barcode on the bag. Sometimes it's just a generic code and won't tell you. Brand varies by location.
Tsc seems to buy pellets from local mills because I suspect transportation costs are high for buying from remote mills.
My local TSC gets Michigan Hardwood pellets (Holland, Michigan or Somerset hardwood pellets, Somerset, Kentucky), but mostly Michigan Hardwood.
I believe it all depends on the store location and I have very good results with Michigan Hardwood by the way. Been running them for 4 years now.
My local TSC gets Michigan Hardwood pellets (Holland, Michigan or Somerset hardwood pellets, Somerset, Kentucky), but mostly Michigan Hardwood.
I believe it all depends on the store location and I have very good results with Michigan Hardwood by the way. Been running them for 4 years now.
That is quite a bit more than I paid at TSC for the 2 ton of Michigan Hardwood I just picked up. I paid 4 bucks a bag but I bought 100 bags on 2 pallets and picked up both pallets in one shot with my 1 ton pickup truck.
One thing I will say for Michigan Hardwood is, my store keeps them outside and I've not had one soggy bag of them yet. The shrink wrap the skids, apply a plastic overcover, more shrink (stretch wrap) and than a fitted plastic top cover so they stay dry.
Once I get them home I unload them with my fork lift and put them inside in the barn
Seems like every time I pick up pellets, the manager always asks me if I want to deliver pellets for them. seems as though people buy them and then come with a car and load them in the trunk and backseat and anywhere they fit and the sales people wind up helping them They like me because I'm a quick load and no fiddling around.
If I get more than 2 ton at a time, I take my tandem axle goose neck. I can load on 7 pallets at a time (14,000 pounds) legally.
My issue is the corn I get. I have to take one of the tractors down the road to fetch that and those skids average 2500 pounds each which is a pretty stout load even for my big tractors. Just put in over 7 ton of corn in bags in the barn too. have enough on hand right now for 2 years.
bogieb
Minister of Fire
It all depends on the bar code, as others have stated. My local TSC bags are filled with Maine Wood Pellets (852453003066). But other TSC's in the state carry other bar codes. Just an FYI, even though the TSC bag says hardwood, they may be a blend - MWP does not produce pure HW pellets.
I've only seen TSC branded pellets at our local store in late winter, never on pre buy or never when they have a brand name in stock.
I do know that a few tears ago people were complaining about them but I never had any as I always pre buy.
Thanks for that info, Bogleb. That TSC had previously been selling Green Supreme, but stopped when they got their own brand. I'll be able to know if they are actually a blend (like Green Supreme) or a hardwood by how they burn.
bogieb
Minister of Fire
My TSD, 99% of the time, sells their own branded pellets. The pre-buys are alway TSC bags. I've only seen them get a brand name twice, and that was really late in the season. I don't know about the other TSC's in the state, so maybe my store is an anomaly.
bogieb
Minister of Fire
I believe it all depends on geographic location. Like I said previously, my local TSC has rarely had 'their own branded' bags of pellets that I can remember and the few times they did, people were complaining about the quality of them. Even toe store manager (at that time) told me to not buy them (if I wanted any but I didn't)
I burned half a bag, and got a lot more ash than with Stove Chow or Barefoot.
bogieb
Minister of Fire
I think that number is missing a couple - probably the very first and very last. It should be 12 digits.
bogieb
Minister of Fire
We just ordered one pallet for $254 from TSC. Waiting for email to pick them up. Hope they are decent because they are cheapest by far around here.
Bit more than I paid actually. I paid 204 for each ton and picked them up on my GN trailer. It appears to me the farther east you go, the more they cost
bogieb
Minister of Fire
That is true.
If you like them, next year look for the pre-buy sale. You can order your tonnage in late July and August, pay 25%. Then you pick up by October 1 and pay the rest. For pre-buying you get $15-25 off each ton. Also, in December, they sometimes have a home heating sale in which I have gotten 15% off a ton of pellets. Of course that was before they re-organized their Friends and Family rewards, so we'll have to wait and see if they do the same this year.
Actually, at least around here, so long as you put something down on the pre buy price, it's all good. This year I put 5 bucks down on 2 ton and paid the balance when I picked them up. You do have to pick up the entire pre buy order in one shot however and like last year the pre buy had to be picked up by October 1 and paid for.
I believe that is how TSC achieves inventory control on wood pellets. No point in having X number of skids sitting around and taking up space and getting we and going to crap.
Far as quality and ash content, I don't really care because I use the the pellets only to mitigate the corn clinker issue in my 6039. The bulk of what I roast is no germ uncoated seed corn.
I will say the ones that our local TSC gets on pre buy (and keeps a few skids in stock) are Michigan Hardwood Pellets, extruded in Holland, Michigan and they are quite low on ash anyway.
I believe that is how TSC achieves inventory control on wood pellets. No point in having X number of skids sitting around and taking up space and getting we and going to crap.
Far as quality and ash content, I don't really care because I use the the pellets only to mitigate the corn clinker issue in my 6039. The bulk of what I roast is no germ uncoated seed corn.
I will say the ones that our local TSC gets on pre buy (and keeps a few skids in stock) are Michigan Hardwood Pellets, extruded in Holland, Michigan and they are quite low on ash anyway.
Time for you to start extruding manure...lol I'll sell you my pellet extruded, told you that before.
In my case, burning basically free no germ uncoated seed corn (which has a much higher BTU output per given amount that pellets, works fine for me and unlike manure, they don't stink
You remind me of a politician. You do a lot of postulation but when it comes to substance (actually doing it), you fail miserably. Why don't you do a First article Test and report on your results? Like a good politician, you propose but when it comes to actually doing it.. well, that another story.
'Man up' and handle it.
'Man up' and handle it.
bogieb
Minister of Fire
Well, I can choose to pay around $1,200 in pellets for heating my main floor and basement per year or I can choose basically another house payment ($1,000 - 1,500) in propane per month to heat my main floor only .
You tell me which is un-affordable.
You keep saying 'WE'. Not we at all, YOU. No one on here is interested in going down that road, I don't believe. You missed your calling. Should have bee a politician. They use the word WE constantly too.
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