Can I toss a bag 'o pellets inot my Englander ?

[SmokeyCity]

w/out hurting it ?

Got a free bag and figured I'd ask (before I do it anyway ... as if you didn't know that already )

 

[BrotherBart]

Sure. Throw your cat in there too. Both will smolder.

A handful at a time actually makes a pretty nice flame on top of coals. The pellets that is. Not the cat.

 

[DexterDay]

Best to burn them in a "Basket" of sorts. So air can get underneath them.

Just thrown on the floor of the stove will yield sub-par results. Unless you have a large coal bed.

I have a little scooper that I scoop about a cups worth into the very front of the stove. Helps get the "Cigar Burn" off to a good start.

If using a large amount. I would suggest a basket. Even if its homemade. A few here have done it already.

 

[Corey]

To get rid of saw dust from the shop, I go out with a sheet of newspaper and scoop up about as much as will fit and still allow me to make a 'package'. I chuck the whole newspaper 'bag' in the stove over a bed of fresh hot coals and watch the secondary flame show begin. I suppose you could do the same thing with pellets...they would probably burn even better than sawdust.

A whole 50# bag might be a bit much, but I can't see that 4-5 pounds at a time over a good coal bed would hurt anything. Though without the coal bed, they will likely just smoulder.

 

[wkpoor]

I bought a couple bags of pellets earlier in the season more out curiousity than anything else. Still haven't gone through one bag yet. Only toss in a scoop or 2 now and then on bed of coals. Seems to burn ok like that.

 

[fishingpol]

To get rid of saw dust from the shop, I go out with a sheet of newspaper and scoop up about as much as will fit and still allow me to make a 'package'. I chuck the whole newspaper 'bag' in the stove over a bed of fresh hot coals and watch the secondary flame show begin. I suppose you could do the same thing with pellets...they would probably burn even better than sawdust.

A whole 50# bag might be a bit much, but I can't see that 4-5 pounds at a time over a good coal bed would hurt anything. Though without the coal bed, they will likely just smoulder.

I just emptied 30# from my wood dust collector bag a few weeks ago, I might try that. I really didn't like throwing it away.

To the OP a pellet basket is really needed. Do they work? Yes, but just ok.

Do a search and you will find a few links for them.

I fabbed one up just to try it. It is now a conversation piece in the basement.

 

[GAMMA RAY]

I"ll bet that bag of pellets was thrown in at 12:15 am..... :lol:
Just a feeling... :smirk:

Tell us Smokey how it worked out...

 

[Dirtsurgeon]

Why can't I get the image of a smoldering cat out of my head? :shut:

 

[fredarm]

Isn't that how BK's get that long slow burn--the smoldering cat? :lol:

 

[ohlongarm]

I'd be careful on tossing too many wood pellets is your stove.I have on good advice here used a cup or 2 at most to burn a coal bed down. BUT ,I got curious today and threw about 5 cups on a coal bed raked to the stoves front. I had a huge explosion in the stove a big fireball and a minute amount of smoke came from the stove.Hope I didn't damage anything,but learned a lesson more is NOT better.It did burn the bed down and I got another hour of burn time from the coal bed,but got similar results with no explosions using the smaller amount.

 

[SmokeyCity]

I"ll bet that bag of pellets was thrown in at 12:15 am..... :lol:
Just a feeling... :smirk:

Tell us Smokey how it worked out...

guilty as charged, right after I hit "Submit Post"

I should have read the reply first... that said "Put em in in small amounts"