So I Found Some Water Damaged Pellets And

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F4jock

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Nov 12, 2014
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Red Rock, PA
I found a pound or two of water-damaged pellets in a bag of my Lignetics. Fed them to my Harman and - - - -

Score: Harman 1. Water Damaged Pellets 0

Didn't even hiccup.
 
Been there done that many times..... Score USSC 6041HF 1........ Water damaged, bloated pellets 0

I try not to make a habit out of it but sometimes a little is just too hard to toss in the garbage or flowerbed.

I've even done water bloated and dried to sawdust pellets. It all burns. Gives a good light show too.
 
I've been known to use the paper towel I used to clean the window with, to start the pellets after I've cleaned the stove. Paper towels and a touch of hand sanitizer gets those pellets going right away..........
 
I found a pound or two of water-damaged pellets in a bag of my Lignetics. Fed them to my Harman and - - - -

Score: Harman 1. Water Damaged Pellets 0

Didn't even hiccup.
Same here, back in the shoulder season I had a couple of bags that one end and one corner got damaged and had dried back out. I just tossed them in with the rest of the bag.. Never knew the difference, the stove just ate em up.
 
found the same thing with my ligs a few pounds of swollen pellets the old harman burned um up no problem.
 
I keep my pellets on shrink wrapped skids (like I get them from ther store) in my big hay barn out back, out of the weather (but not out of the barn cats constant curious ways...)

Had a couple bags that the cats chewed the bags open and proceeded to whizz on. Those roasted just fine too. Combustion knows no boundaries. Little stinky going in............
 
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I found a lump in one of my LaCrete bags, surgically removed the mass. Dont know how it got wet, but a pile of chunky sawdust was all that was left. Im not feeding that to my Englander...
 
I found a lump in one of my LaCrete bags, surgically removed the mass. Dont know how it got wet, but a pile of chunky sawdust was all that was left. Im not feeding that to my Englander...

Like the fertilizer guy says in the Scotts commercial.....FeeeeeeeeeeeeeD IT......;lol
 
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Harmoan show off :D
Have seen a lot of posts about people not feeding "damaged" pellets to their stoves. Of course there's "damaged" and there's "DAMAGED" but I just don't get the angst. It works. The stuff burns.
 
My ole Quads had no problems with those pellets either. It's just swallowing mega-fines. No big deal. You don't have to be a hoarmoan to be good.
 
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