6 bags here in waterbury, ct.
For some reason, Waterbury is one of the colder places in ct. Not always but quite often.
One bag was my fault, though! Twice I fell asleep with the pellet stove going & it eat through 1/2 a bag of pellets for the night, even on the lowest setting because it is a 46,000 btu large pellet heater which I use to heat 1800 sq ft.
Those nights that i fell asleep with the pellet stove on,I slept like a baby, nice & warm & roasty toasty.
Now , I keep the hopper with only 1/5 of a bag in it, so if I fall asleep, it wont eat more than 1/5th bag.
"You pellet pigs should be ashaimed of yourselves". eernest4 grand pooba of the pellet pigs club!"
Now, How did that happen to me, I wonder??
Seems I got nominated! he-he
I admit I was kinda steamed up about 3 weeks ago , not being able to buy pellets any place & being told if or when we ever get pellets again & first come ,first served. It didn't look like I was going to ever be able to buy pellets for the winter.
Home depot finally got a shipment in 3 weeks late & i just happened to be at the store when the truck pulled in at 10 am , so I bought the first ton off the truck. They were completly sold out,all 22 tons by 6 pm.
All I had was a honda civic hatchback but I was able to make 2 trips of 25 bags per trip, so while I spent all day loading & unloading 1 bag at a time, every thing worked out in the end & I saved the 60.oo delevery charge and only used 6.oo worth of gas to do it.
Still ,it cost me $300.oo a ton
I got 10 bags left over from last winter's ton & the 50 bags I just bought for this year.
Got 4 cords of well seasoned splits in the wood shed with my secondary burn wood stove in the basement for primary heat.The wood cost me $150.oo in transportation charges but I got the actual wood itself, for free.
The pellet stove is just for those nights that I am too beat to start a wood fire & watch it for an hour until it settles down and burns right & I also use the pellet stove for those cold mornings when the wood stove goes out in the middle of the night & i get up walking into walls until sometime after the third cup of coffee.
I do truely love just pushing the "on" button & sometimes I fall asleep in front of the pellet stove watching the pretty flames.
My secondary burn wood stove has a solid steel door, so I can't watch the flames on it, so I never fell asleep in front of it, even though it throws 4 times the heat of the pellet stove.
The wood stove is huge, 2 ft high x 2 ft wide x 3 ft deep firebox which steps up another foot
in back after the first 18 inches, so that in back it is 2 ft wide x 3ft high.
I converted my old time overnighter front loading wood stove to secondary burn at the begining of last winter & dropped my wood usage from 8 to 12 cords per winter down to 4 cords per winter & a good thing too because free wood is getting really hard to come by.
well oink ,oink youall!!
PS: Teamorange in road island is the most efficient pellet burner using only 3 bags of pellets so far this year.
Congratulations, Team Orange