anyone ever use these? Seems as though they don't hear up the house very well.. Looking at getting a ton of blackstone premium.. Any ideas
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JRA
Feeling the Heat
I can tell you from first hand experience with green supreme I would never buy them again. Burnt them last year as a new stove owner and made the mistake of getting a ton. They heated the house until it went down into the 30s outside, then the heat was minimal. Terrible ash, clinkers and creasol build up to, had to clean the stove every three days.
Look at the wood pellet reviews page before you buy the blackstone hardwoods a member recently posted a picture of a huge amount of fines he was finding in the bags. What are your other choices?
Look at the wood pellet reviews page before you buy the blackstone hardwoods a member recently posted a picture of a huge amount of fines he was finding in the bags. What are your other choices?
JRA
Feeling the Heat
Also before you buy any bulk try some bags first to try that way you know what to expect
Shane1
Member
I tried 10 bags when I first got my stove this year of the green supremes. Heat was terrible and filled my burn pot with a terrible crust. And the ash was terrible. Ive decided on lignetics.
I'm also looking at New England wood pellets they worked well last year. I have testy Englander, and she is picky... I have 38 bags of the blackstone, maybe 35 of green supreme and if I can get the engalnders then I will get a ton of them
JRA
Feeling the Heat
Strang because green supreme is new england wood pellet, look at your green supreme bag it's says newp product right on the bottom.
nick123
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The New England don't seem to put out much heat. Same with the Green Supreme, I burn New Englands when its warmer out. Lignetics, Press to Logs, and this year Fireside Ultras.
JRA
Feeling the Heat
What part of ma I'm on the northshore. Plenty of pellet dealers in all of ma where you can get a better selection than big box stores. South shore wood pellets in Holbrook ma, pellets direct uxbridge ma, squier lumber monson ma, pellets r us acton ma, robbins garden Oxford ma just to name a few.
nick123
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I have bought Press to Logs at Lowes and Kmart. Lignentics generally at True Value. This year I bought 5 tons of Fireside Utlras at Home Depot.
I had many many tons of green supremes. They didnt burn real hot and left behind ash that was darker and appeared not fully burned. I didnt like them, but they were very cheap and they did keep the house warm enough through 3 NY winters. This year I got stove chow's and while not the best pellet i'm sure - they are significantly better than the green supremes.
NYBurner
Burning Hunk
If you are in Mass, you have some great options to get pellets. Seems like it must be a major transport hub for a lot of companies. You can get Okanagans which are pricey but reputed to be the best pellet available bar none (I picked up a half ton to give them a try this winter). Hopefully others from the area will chime in and help you out.
Green Supremes make what seems double the ash, and half the heat vs a really good pellet.
Green Supremes make what seems double the ash, and half the heat vs a really good pellet.
The Green Supreme's are better than North American pellets. Then again North American pellets are nothing more then compressed dirt with a small amount of wood fiber thrown in just to make it barely legal. A few years ago, I burned a few ton of Green Supreme's when they were $210 a ton. Now I am lazy and don't like to clean my stove every 2 weeks.
I posted this few year's ago here, the pellets made in NY suck and the ones from new hampshire were better
Harmanizer
Burning Hunk
Big box pellets that are any good can be hard to find but Fireside Ultra and Stove Chow are better than average.I find them at Home Depot.
Thanks everyone! It seems as though I need to crank up the heat with these. I came home tonight and it's was 62 in the house. I had it set 1-9 but tonight cranked it to 3-9.. Any suggestions to get more heat?!?
How many square feet you trying to heat? I have a hard time believing its 62 degrees in the same room where the the pellet stove is unless you got a monster room with Cathedral ceilings. How far away from the pellet stove is it 62 degrees?
I have an open area and the thermostat is in the living room which is about 15 feet away from where the pellet stove is. I have an open area going up to the second floor and it was only 59 up there. This am at 3-9 the thermostat read 64. I have a window by the pellet stove with an unit in there. We insulated it but I'm thinking that might be the culprit as I still feel some air coming in?
Harvey Schneider
Minister of Fire
If the 3-9 is referring to your settings on an Englander stove, I can see why you don't get much heat. You can't get heat from your stove without burning pellets. Crank the feed rate up.
I run my 25-PDVC at 9-9 with the thermostat set at 68 and it can heat a concrete walled 1200 sqft basement, even with cheap pellets. It gets the basement from 50
to 68 in about 45 minutes after it has reached the fan on temperature. After that the thermostat takes care of temperature regulation.Regarding pellets, it took me a couple of years to figure out what I was doing. The first two seasons I burned big box junk. I finally settled on softwood, low ash pellets. They yield more heat, keep the stove cleaner and have much less dust and fines in the bag. I get my pellets from woodpellets.com. Any of the midrange pellets are good, but look at the BTU/$ not at the price per ton. I used LG Granules last year, and this year I am burning Cleanfire Pacific. Both are good pellets, and at todays prices, they are about equal in cost in terms of BTU/$.
Enigma869
Feeling the Heat
If you can find them, Greenways were a solid pellet in my Englander last year. I reccomend the iGepir App, scan the barcodes and then you'll know what pellet is actually what. Lowes is selling some green bag that are rebagged Currans that I payed $50 less per ton.
PelletPirate
Member
These pellets are very ashy in my experience. The also do not give much heat. Compound that with ash insulating the heat exchangers, you get very poor output.
Other than north americans these are the worst. Anyone who says they never had a problem with them hasn't burned a halfway decent pellet brand.
Pete Zahria
Minister of Fire
I agree with the answer about higher stove settings.
While a pretty decent stove, it is a small stove... I like mine in the shop.
But you cannot expect it to warm a decent size area. It will keep one warm,
but it's hard for it to make one warm.
it's just math/science.... if you want more heat, you need to burn more fuel.
you may want to do a search about changing your heat mode.
I went from D to C, and it does help...
Dan
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