Alternative biomass- fruit pits

[Albus]

Would you purchase fruit pits instead of wood pellets if it came at a steep discount?

 

[peakbagger]

There are or were stoves that burned pits and corn. They effectively were a pellet stove with more adjustability.

 

[clux]

Assuming they were dry, had a similar BTU content and burned clean, yes.

 

[ARC]

Would you purchase fruit pits instead of wood pellets if it came at a steep discount?

I have burned a lot of different things in my USSC 6039 to include cherry pits while they put out decent heat they were very noisy going through the auger and burn dirty. Think a can full of rocks and shake it. Pellets and corn are still the best things I have tried.

 

[Northwoodneil]

I'm sure my PC45 would burn them. I heard of people burning cherry pits, olive pits, barley, wheat about anything that is dry and will burn. I've only burned corn and pellets.

 

[peakbagger]

Lindt Chocolate in southern NH used to sell the cocoa bean remains to a biomass plant in Portsmouth NH to burn. Not sure if they are still doing it. My guess is fruit pits would work better in large commercial pellet boilers.

 

[johneh]

If I had a stove that was rated multi-fuel then yes
I would burn nut shells, fruit pits or any other fuel it
could burn if the price was right.
There was a guy on this forum in years past that burnt
nothing but nutshells

 

[Jeremy6500]

I looked in to cherry pits since my USSC 6500 will burn them. From what I found the price was about the same as pellets and people who had done it said they were a lot dirtier.

 

[ABusWrench]

Family Farm and Home have bagged cherry pits, $7.99 a bag. Haven't tried them yet. Talked to a fellow @ Menards while picking up a ton of pellets, he told me he adds a coffee can full of cherry pits to a hopper of pellets when it gets real cold. Ups his heat output he says.