Crabbe pellets

[nksdad2007]

Has anyone else been burning these this year? I have been mixing them 2 bags with 1 Greene team and it was working fine. Then the other day I started getting huge clinkers that closed off the whole burn pot. Not sure if it was a build up of sawdust or something with the pellets. Cleaned it out, vacuumed the hopper out clean and refilled with Greene team and it has been burning great since.

 

[bugize]

I burned 4 ton last year,thought they was ok@ 270 per ton. Found a closer supplier that sells LG's for 260....and I finally found my pellet after trying many different brands...LG all the way.
Crabbes are ok....but to me,more of a 230-240$ range pellet....I had some bags...8-10 that I couldn't use as they had moisture in them

 

[chken]

I burned 2 tons of Crabbés last year. Nice, high quality pellet. Double vacuumed. Still, I liked the LGs better. Those pellets were the cleanest I've seen, speaking of fines, not ash.

 

[nksdad2007]

I must have gotten all of the sawdust. It has been horrible. Bought some lumber this morning to build a frame to sift them with tonight.

 

[St_Earl]

they say double vacuumed, but i have a lot of fines in mine.
i don't mind that. but they make ash plugs. not clinkers per se.
i much prefer my mwp blend as the fly ash is very light and the pot never ever gets clogged up with them.

i'm burning through all the crabbe i have left so i don't have to deal with this anymore.

 

[woodmakesheat]

Mmmmm, Crabbé patties.

 

[Utilitrack]

I have been burning Crabbes exclusively this year, I have the same stove, burn fine on low, but when burning on medium after 12 hours or so my entire burn pot is caked with an ash turd with the combustion air wide open. The vent is probably getting due for a good LBT treatment, but I suspect it is more the pellets.

 

[St_Earl]

^exactly. it's not the venting.

 

[nksdad2007]

I have started sifting them as i mix and haven't had any problems since. I think the sawdust was just too much for the stove. Surprising because i have never had that issue before. If i feel adventurous this weekend, i might try running some straight sifted crabbe without mixing to see what happens.

 

[St_Earl]

5 bags of Crabbe Cakes left.
never again.
after 4 seasons, i have settled on MWP blend as the best pellet available to me for the money.
and as for the $300+ per ton options? fugget about it. no way in hell i recover that money in heat.
not paying that just to keep from scooping a little lightweight fly ash.

i just scoop the fly ash out between cleanings. burn pot stays nearly pristine since the fly ash is so light and gets blown clear.
every freaking 12 hours at best though, i have to clear a crabbe cake.

 

[SidecarFlip]

......and my wife calls me Crabbe Cake....

 

[md2002]

It's amazing the different pellet prices depending on the location you live in. You can't get Lingnetics any cheaper than $305 a ton where I live and Aces Hardware was selling them for $7.50 a bag

 

[Utilitrack]

This years Crabbes were horrible, I just bought a ton of Cubex, I have not scraped the pot or had to empty the pan since. Kick myself for buying three tons of the Crabbes and struggling with them all season all to save $30 per ton...

 

[DOLLARBILL]

I used them last year with no problems this year i did three ton of Okies Platinums and two of their Gold was NOT impressed at all! Lots of fines but they do throw out the Heat !Next year its going to be Cubex always have had the best of luck with them