So I have been burning American Wood Fibers Ultra White Pine premium heat pellets for about two years. Have probably been through at least 8 tons in that time.
This week when I went to pick up the newest ton that I purchased the bags themselves have a terrible smell to them. You can't smell it really if you put your nose to the bag but once you handle a bag or two the smell is all over your clothes and hands. At first I thought it was maybe the smell of mildew, similar to that of a dirty dish-rag. Now I'm not so sure. It smells more like almost a fertilizer type of smell? Do they use anything at the plants where these are made maybe to keep dust down or to treat something and maybe it got on the bag and that is what I am smelling?
The pellets weren't stored before I purchased them though I did buy them from a farm supply. They pretty much came right off the truck from the plant and then bag by bag into my vehicle. Not to mention that it's every ton they have sitting around there from their latest pickup down at the plant. It is also on all the bags, layers down where there is no air space so that points to it being a smell from where they were manufactured before they were palatalized.
This week when I went to pick up the newest ton that I purchased the bags themselves have a terrible smell to them. You can't smell it really if you put your nose to the bag but once you handle a bag or two the smell is all over your clothes and hands. At first I thought it was maybe the smell of mildew, similar to that of a dirty dish-rag. Now I'm not so sure. It smells more like almost a fertilizer type of smell? Do they use anything at the plants where these are made maybe to keep dust down or to treat something and maybe it got on the bag and that is what I am smelling?
The pellets weren't stored before I purchased them though I did buy them from a farm supply. They pretty much came right off the truck from the plant and then bag by bag into my vehicle. Not to mention that it's every ton they have sitting around there from their latest pickup down at the plant. It is also on all the bags, layers down where there is no air space so that points to it being a smell from where they were manufactured before they were palatalized.