How do you store pellets and how much

[Darkwing]

Hello...
I am wondering how to store pellets...
Quite new to the subject and would like to know how you do it...
Are you just designating a corner in the garage/Basement and have bags sitting there on a pallet or do you open them up and throw them in a huge container that sits in a corner?
And how much tons do you normally stack ?
Right now i go by need and buy bag by bag...but am still hoping to get somewhat bulk price in spring as a deal...and want to be prepped for bulk storage

 

[johneh]

Mine are on pallets in my basement 3 pallets 4.5 tons

 

[Dataman]

I store my in Wife's Wood shop in Bay on the Leeward Side. When snow comes off roof it encloses it pretty good (4ft high). I used tractor to bring up 9 bags each trip to back porch. Did not covered with tarp this year, but will next year. Most of the wind and rain is blocked by house, but not all. Got some bags wet, just wiped them down and all were good. I had 5 bags under the manuf tarp that had water damage. One I threw out and others I burned in stove.

I would not recommend you storing them on floor, but pallet. I bought 3 Tons thinking I would not need more. Got 2 more tons after month and looked like I have 25 bags with 5 inside and 20 on porch. More than enough with Warm Weather we have had so far to last until mid Feb. I have Heat Pump and will switch to that 100% of the time if nights stay above 30. On heat pump today. House was 74f when stove got shut down and cleaned (Harmon XXV). HP will pickup at 70f and keep it there. Elec is .05 kilowatt here, cheaper than Pellets at $200 ton or $5.00 bag.

I am too lazy to move them to basement and then haul them up for burning. Too much work. Wife does all the hauling up to the house and I unload. She can move 9 bags without breaking a sweat (MT18 Tractor with Bucket)

Switched to pellets from Blaze King King Wood Stove. Shame I had 6 cords cut, bucked and split up. 2nd year on my log splitter too. It was so easy. But I got tired of all the bitching about ash and smoke inside. Was my plan to get pellet stove in couple more years. Just early is all.

 

[Darkwing]

I hear you...have still wood sitting on porch...haha, but wood stove took so much time that i just dont have anymore...and when getting older i dont want to do the split and haul anyway anymore...luckily there is still some decades time

 

[THE ROOSTER]

Store mine in the garage on a pallet...

 

[jerrieric]

Basement 6 ton

 

[Darkwing]

6 ton? Do you have a good source for cheap or just precaution?

 

[rich2500]

I have a 7X7 Rubbermaid shed behind the house by the back door that I can fit 3 ton in.

 

[jerrieric]

6 ton? Do you have a good source for cheap or just precaution?

I burn 4 or 5 ton a season. Usually around 4 and I stock up around April when stuff is cheaper at the end of season. I try the burn the oldest first but I just had some that are 3 years old in the middle of the stack. They're dry and they're burning great.

 

[Pete Zahria]

Cardboard on a painted basement floor.. never had a problem.

Dan

 

[velvetfoot]

6 tons on pallets in basement. They would ordinarily be used to feed the plywood box that pneumatically feeds the boiler.
Alas, oil is cheap.

 

[Tonyray]

5 tons each year stacked onto pallets...
pallets get dropped off in my driveway and we bring thru basement window...
maybe 15 minutes per ton.

 

[JR52]

16-17 tons stored on one side of an oversized garage, it should get me through this winter and the next two. I like to buy in bulk so that I can time my buys when I can find pellets cheap and I just made a 12 ton buy in November.

 

[jerrieric]

16-17 tons stored on one side of an oversized garage, it should get me through this winter and the next two. I like to buy in bulk so that I can time my buys when I can find pellets cheap and I just made a 12 ton buy in November.

??? Per ton?

 

[Tonyray]

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Cardboard on a painted basement floor.. never had a problem.

Dan

kinds cool.. at 1st glance it sorta looks like a dept store there..

 

[JR52]

??? Per ton?

$189 ton at Lowes. I think we talked about this before: $259/ton, 4% ton discount, 10% lowes coupon, and then 15% gift card on the Thanksgiving deal. I had to negotiate the free shipping but they did it.

Two years ago I did the same thing at Home Depot and paid $182/ton.

 

[jerrieric]

Yeah I've been looking and trying to see what I could get with it seems a little complicated. I can't find any coupons Etc and Deals especially at Lowes. Home Depot has by 6 tons get it for 219 a ton. I just emailed the manufacturer and Athens Maine to see how much I have to buy to get the wholesale price whatever that is.

 

[Pete Zahria]

maybe 15 minutes per ton.

Man... that is haulin' the mail!


Dan

 

[jerrieric]

Man... that is haulin' the mail!


Dan

Yeah I have a ramp to my basement and I throw the pellets down off of the pallet and then I stack them. It takes a little longer than 15 minutes.

 

[Pete Zahria]

Yeah I have a ramp to my basement and I throw the pellets down off of the pallet and then I stack them

I have a slide... it works great... but I can't do a ton in 15 minutes.
But then, I may be older than you, too..

Dan

 

[Tonyray]

Man... that is haulin' the mail!


Dan

let me splain it:

2 guys outside feed /2 guys inside thru the window who receive/stack..
each guy only handles 25 bags.. 1 ton goes quick. bet ya'll thought it was a big whopper....

 

[tlc1976]

Usually 3 tons in my pole barn on pallets, that's about all I got room for. Then a 4th ton that I pick up on Black Friday sale, and leave in the enclosed trailer until near end of season when I finally start to need it. Or if I need the trailer before then, I'll have made enough room where I can unload it into the empty space. In the pole barn I keep them covered with plastic, as there's the occassional roof leak or frost melting and dripping in the shoulder season.

 

[Pete Zahria]

2 guys outside feed /2 guys inside thru the window who receive/stack..
each guy only handles 25 bags.. 1 ton goes quick. bet ya'll thought it was a big whopper....

Now I get it..
I do the slide and stack alone.. I just knew that 15 minutes was REALLY, REALLY fast..


Dan

 

[bogieb]

Now I get it..
I do the slide and stack alone.. I just knew that 15 minutes was REALLY, REALLY fast..


Dan

You and me both (except I carry and stack - no slide).

Until this year I kept about 3 tons in basement on 2 skids (basement is damp) and 3 tons in garage. Then during fire sales a couple of years ago I had 11 tons sitting outside under tarps. This year I put in a raised floor system in the basement, moved my stove and some other stuff so I now have an area I can keep about 1.5 tons (1 pallet). Still have 3 tons in garage.

Sometimes I load a ton into my Explorer, but usually pick up a 1/2 ton at a time. I am lucky in that my local TSC will allow me to buy tonnage and then pick it up whenever I want, in whatever quantity I want. Then again it was really nice during the fire sales when they were also discounting delivery (I'm 30 miles from anywhere except the local TSC, Aubuchon's and Agway). That is the only time I've gotten delivery.

 

[Mt Bob]

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Cardboard on a painted basement floor.. never had a problem.

Dan

Do you face all your labels the same way,like Dexter does?