Still high here, But I hear the corn prices are dropping. The joys of owning a multi fueler is priceless sometimes.
There's a guy on nepacrossroads that will deliver 10 tons to NY, CT, and Mass for $250 a ton for 10 ton load. That'll hold you for at least 3 years and it's the equivalent of 17 tons of pellets in heat value. Oil IS coming down but I wonder if we'll ever see $1.50 gas again. They'll stop drilling for it long before it gets that low.
Not sure I care about oil prices anymore I'm geared not to purchase it
I thought its rather convenient that the oil industries are using wood pellets to suck up their mess's. At the same time adding to an already stressed market due to the recent demand. What I don't get is they are paying more for them than we would. Yet oil dollars are actually dropping.
What I was referring to is that the oil/gas industry is using MASSSSSSSSSIVE amounts of low grade wood in the form of crane mats, that would otherwise be sold as log loads for firewood or pellet feed stock . We sell log loads to a crane mat manufacturer at the rate of $65/ton vs. $35-$40 for firewood. Pallet material we sell cut from low grade firewood logs has increased 20% just in the last few months. Our pallet reconditioning biz has 0 inventory as cores. Cores come directly off the trailer and onto sort and rebuild line and back on delivery trailer . Used to be sorted and inventoried till needed for an order.
I've often wondered if an industrial user could burn oil saturated pellets. The oil doesn't break the pellet down like water does. It also makes the pellet somewhat resistance to water absorption since it's already saturated with oil. Similar to torrified but not quite. Plus there's the extra BTU value from the oil but you would need the emission controls of an industrial burner. If I had the time to work on it, I'd file for a patent. Just in case.
