Okie Golds v. AWF UP White Pine?!?

[RingoesMan]

SSIA - At the same price point, which pellet should I go with to finish out this season in an Englander 25-PDVC? Anything is better than NAWPs, but is there a tangible difference between these two?

 

[rexrules]

I have burned four bags of the okie golds in my pdvc the past couple of days and I am very impressed. Good heat and minimal ash.

Slightly less heat than the Doug firs and just a tiny bit more ash. At this point I would even buy them over the firs because of the price difference.

 

[bcarton]

I have 2.5 tons of Okie Golds in the garage, and in my stove they run just okay. I wish I'd waited to purchase, because now the local Tractor Supply stores have Big Heat pellets which they claim are all softwood. Those pellets put out tons of heat with an almost-white ash. I have to open the damper up for the Okies to get a gray ash, instead of dark brown or black, and there's always a sizable cookie in the burn pot when I go to clean the stove. They do burn good on really cold nights when I have to crank the stove, but most nights don't get below the mid teens around here. I haven't seen the AWF's around here at all.

 

[rexrules]

Here is my pdvc burn pot after 2.5 bags of okie golds after I shut down for cleaning. Almost two whole days without touching the stove. Anyone with a pdvc or pdv knows how hard that can be to do with some pellets.

Mine was a brand new batch so maybe there is some variation in quality.

 

[Skier76]

I'm burning Okie Golds and AWF white pines right now. At the same price point, it's a coin toss. For me, the AWFs were $60 cheaper a ton. In that case, AWFs come out ahead.

 

[Bryan Sacks]

This is the exact mixture I'm burning right now. Both are very good pellets, but AWFs are slightly hotter in my stove. They smell better, too - in fact, I've never smelled such a pleasant aroma from a bag of pellets, like a pine forest.

Can't go wrong with either, but AWFs are the choice here.

 

[whitetailscout]

AWF has been burning great for us, super hot, low low ash!