Where Do You Buy Pellets?

[F4jock]

I live in NEPA. Although I'm very happy with the Lignetics I use I love to play with my pellets, check out the heat throw and ash generation BUT I can't seem to find most of the brands you all use. I've had PA Pellets - don't like them - and tried the Big Box brands but Stove Chow and others of that ilk I can't seem to find. So --- where do you buy your decently performing pellets in "trial amounts" like five bags? Most stove / pellet dealers around here are reluctant to sell in those amounts.

 

[TimfromMA]

Ask some local pellet burners. I'm sure they will sell you a few bags.

 

[LordmetalZ28]

Tractor supply. I love that store. Hardware store in port jervis ny had greenways recently

 

[SidecarFlip]

+1 on TSC where everything is scratched, dented or broken.....

 

[LordmetalZ28]

+1 on TSC where everything is scratched, dented or broken.....

I did see alot of floor model stoves banged up this summer. Then i went back last night and those floor model stoves had sold stickers on them. Desperation i guess?

 

[wolfie770]

Here in swpa i get mine from Agway. They have three brands in stock and the best prices around here. I got four tons of Hamer's Hot Ones in the summer for $239/ton. They do sell them by the bag. When I bought my stove last January I bought five bags of each to test before I committed to any one by the ton.

 

[SidecarFlip]

I did see alot of floor model stoves banged up this summer. Then i went back last night and those floor model stoves had sold stickers on them. Desperation i guess?

More like marked down because of minor damage. My TSC has an outside area (under tent) thats full of items that the clerks have abused with fork trucks, dropped, and who knows what else...all marked down.

Couple years ago, I bought an MTD 60" ZTR mower from TSC. Had to order it and it was 5 grand (M60 Tank). I took my gooseneck trailer to pick it up and the clown driving the high low aka: sales clerk, shoved the forks into the side of the deck, bending the gage wheel. He thought I wasn't looking (I was) and asked him what the hell he was doing. He replied that it 'came that way'. I replied... "Take it off the trailer and get me a new one, like right now", so I got another and that one went in the tent....

I check every pallet of pellets I buy from TSC, carefully before I drive away, I usually buy 5 or 6 ton at a time. Thos clowns are noted for impailing bags of pellets on pallets and not noticing it, on purpose.

Around here, we call it 'Tough Shitte Charlies', where everything is scratched, broken or dented.....

 

[JTRock]

Usually buy from depot or Lowes but this year it's impossible around here. Payed $269 a ton @ TSC Got 2 tons of lignetics went back 2 days later for more. Sold out of the lignetics so bought 2 tons of North American blend. I am no pellet snob, my lopi will burn anything except for the nasty dirt pellets sold at the gas station. The North American are ashy suckers but I have OCD keeping my stove vac'd

 

[rich2500]

Home depot,Lowe's,ace hardware,tsc,landscape supply store and last week I bought 21 bags on craigslist

 

[VTrider]

I'm lucky to live in an area where pellets almost grow on trees, Not only do I have multiple pellet dealers close by to choose from most of the local grocery and hardware stores also carry them. I usually get my pellets directly from my dealer, but this is the first year I got them from Home Depot - scored a few tons of Blazer Premiums (real deal from Oregon, not rebagged/rebadged in another mill) which have no business being around the Northeast? Currently burning another ton of Maine's Choice from Lowes which I am pleasantly suprised with the amount of heat and ash they produce.

The North American are ashy suckers but I have OCD keeping my stove vac'd

I've burned these for years in my Maxx and agree they have been the ashiest pellets I've ever come across. Not really an issue if you do a weekly cleanout anyway, a big ash bin always helps too!

 

[JTRock]

Yep this will be the winter of ash lol! I couldn't believe it that ash is like fresh powdery snow.. I have to say no clinkers and burns completely. None the less where I live there is an abundance of suppliers. But no supply

 

[SidecarFlip]

Kinda reminds me of the hay business in a way. I wait until the end of November to start emptying the barns (except for my regular customers that plan ahead) everyone else gets an equal screwing....

 

[Buckeyesfan75]

New to this whole pellet burning myself (and this site as evidence by this being only my second post), but my dad and I both buy our pellets from a local amish man who deals. EasyHeats for $195/ton late this summer and Somersets for about $225/ton. I didn't buy enough the first time around and found Somersets at the local Menards this fall, but price had gone up to about $260/ton tax included.

 

[SidecarFlip]

New to this whole pellet burning myself (and this site as evidence by this being only my second post), but my dad and I both buy our pellets from a local amish man who deals. EasyHeats for $195/ton late this summer and Somersets for about $225/ton. I didn't buy enough the first time around and found Somersets at the local Menards this fall, but price had gone up to about $260/ton tax included.

Sommersets are my preferred pellets with Indiana Wood Fibers number 2. dead last is Hamburgers Hot Ones and the crap Menards had last year. Pure junk.

 

[SidecarFlip]

I bet the Amish are big into pellet stoves.....

 

[Buckeyesfan75]

I bet the Amish are big into pellet stoves.....

I suppose the ones that have electricity in their houses might be!!

 

[SidecarFlip]

Maybe you aren't aware but there are pellet burners that require no electrical energy to run...... As gentiles, we use juice. They don't.

 

[Buckeyesfan75]

Maybe you aren't aware but there are pellet burners that require no electrical energy to run

See, I'm learning stuff already....I did NOT know this....how does that work? Some type of gravity feed system to the burn box? Different style stoves altogether?

 

[SidecarFlip]

Gravity feed and convection (radiant) heat. I bet Lehmans in Kidron has them. I might live in Michigan but my wife has been dealing with Amish concerning draft horses for years. She gets harness made in Mount Hope btw.

 

[Buckeyesfan75]

Gravity feed and convection (radiant) heat. I bet Lehmans in Kidron has them. I might live in Michigan but my wife has been dealing with Amish concerning draft horses for years. She gets harness made in Mount Hope btw.

Very cool. Kidron is a good 3 hours from where I live, but I have been there once years ago. The Amish we've dealt with have a few stores up in the Logan/Hardin county areas. Always get fair deal and excellent customer service.

 

[TimfromMA]

I bet the Amish are big into pellet stoves.....

Pellet stoves require electricity

 

[reallyte]

Look up tall pines.

 

[JTRock]

I just have my generator switch wired in the pellet stove room. Power outage problem solved