Maines Choice 2011/2012 season

[pelletizer]

I know weather has been warm but has anyone burned the 2011/2012 batch's of Maine's Choice pellets yet and are they any better than last year?
I am very hesitant to buy any of these.
I burned some last year and they were not good, Not to be confused with MWP (these are the bags with a moose and a sheep or something sitting by a stove and I think one is knitting a sweater?)

 

[IHATEPROPANE]

Could be your stove just doesnt like them. I burned some I picked up in Feb and they were great....maybe you got a bad batch? I think its worth it to grab a few bags and see if they are any better.

 

[pelletizer]

Your right can't hurt to grab a few and try em, thanks

 

[jtakeman]

I have heard a couple of other say the same as IHP. One was very impressed with how hot they burned. I'll try another batch. All new process from what I tried before.

 

[slls]

I burned one bag, saw nothing wrong with them.

 

[EarlyMan]

Hi

I've been burning them in my MT Vernon for about 2 weeks now. There's not much ash, fines and dust are about average. They're about 1/2" - 1" in length. I would rate them good for shoulder use. The heat output was about 50 degrees cooler than the bag of Cubex I burned last Summer, when I had just purchased the stove. So yeah, nothing bad to report. Just don't expect them to get you through the dead of Winter.

EarlyMan

 

[joescho]

Burned 2 bags, along with a bag of barefoots. They burned as well as the bag of Barefoots.

 

[Bank]

I'm burning them now. Have 1.75 tons left from last year. I like'em. Not the best, but damn good.

 

[pelletizer]

OK, well then thanks all, I will pick up a few and give em a burn.

 

[smalltown]

Did the Maine Choice pellets change from the green and beige colored bag with the two Moose playing cards to something new?

 

[jtakeman]

I don't think so. I try to see what I can dig up.

 

[hossthehermit]

Did the Maine Choice pellets change from the green and beige colored bag with the two Moose playing cards to something new?

This is what the bag looked like in 2009

 

[EarlyMan]

Did the Maine Choice pellets change from the green and beige colored bag with the two Moose playing cards to something new?

This is what the bag looked like in 2009

Yep -

That's just what the bags I picked up at Lowes last month look like. After looking at your great photo, I just hope that we can all agree that they're supposed to be mooses and not sheep, cows, or deer! :lol:

EarlyMan

 

[smalltown]

PYRO thanks I thought I had read the bag and or mix had changed. I had used Maine Choice my first year and they were ok. The second year I tried some additional bags, and they burnt lousy. I was surprised to read new posts that that "maybe" now they are ok. I guess I was hoping things had changed.

Could be I am just spoiled burning the OKIES.

 

[hossthehermit]

I burned 3 ton of those 2009 -2010, andthey worked well for me, also a ton of Corinth, and a ton of Athens that year. Didn't burn any last year, didn't get any this year either, better deal on Athens, but would burn again if I got the right deal.