Stove Pellets ?

[bigdog]

Having a pellet stove installed in a few weeks.
Quadrafire Mt. Vernon pellet stove !

Need pellets for next winter season, suggestions on where to purchase and 'Brands' to buy ?

Thanks !

[Glendale Girl]

I get them from Gilford True Value. They have a early buy usually in June. They deliver free unlike Lowes that charge you. I use the Green Supreme.

[SAB1]

The green supreme seem to be the common pellet up there as I have found. There are much better pellets out there though. I burned green supreme this year and they were full of fines, high ash output and didn’t seem to have the heat output. I burned three or four years ago as well and I thought they were better back then. I’ll be switching next season and will haul them up from Hampton if nothing better local. Been burning pellets about 15 years now down in Mass. All things considered I think I could just run my heat (natural gas) and it would price out very close. Up at camp propane is higher price so saving a few bucks there.

[pjard]

Go to Woodpellets.com and buy the Granules LG. Very little ash and Woodpellets.com is NH based company.

[Loub52]

Originally Posted by pjard

Go to Woodpellets.com and buy the Granules LG. Very little ash and Woodpellets.com is NH based company.

A good choice and I think they offer a price break at 3 tons. For a nominal fee, they’ll also place them in a garage or sheltered area if you have an area accessible by a motorized pallet jack.

[Taz]

Originally Posted by bigdog

Having a pellet stove installed in a few weeks.
Quadrafire Mt. Vernon pellet stove !

Need pellets for next winter season, suggestions on where to purchase and 'Brands' to buy ?

Thanks !

I don't know what is available in your area but in North Conway area a friend of mine and myself use CUBEX. Great pellet, no issues, we both burn them in Harman stoves.

[SAB1]

Just and FYI I went on Woodpellets.com and they do not deliver to my Tuftonboro area.

[TheTimeTraveler]

Originally Posted by SAB1

Just and FYI I went on Woodpellets.com and they do not deliver to my Tuftonboro area.

On the Woodpellets.com website try punching in the zip code 03894 and you will see there is a retailer in Wolfeboro Falls.

I don't know, but they may somehow be able to assist you delivery of the woodpellets (since presumably they received the same products for retailing).

Just a thought......

[ishoot308]

What’s everybody paying for pellets these days? I can’t see a benefit / savings to burning pellets at $250.00 per ton as a primary heat source, it’s cheaper to turn the oil burner on and has been for the past couple winters...

Has the price of pellets come down that much?

Dan

[SAB1]

No Dan they have not. Most decent pellets are running between $275 - $310 a ton depending on what you get. That's the only reason I took the Green Supreme last year at $250. It not cheap and I agree the costs against turning up the thermostat are not far off and using the thermostat gives you a uniformly warm house, less mess and a better back!

[pjard]

Originally Posted by ishoot308

What’s everybody paying for pellets these days? I can’t see a benefit / savings to burning pellets at $250.00 per ton as a primary heat source, it’s cheaper to turn the oil burner on and has been for the past couple winters...

Has the price of pellets come down that much?

Dan

Dan

I have solar panels as well and typically late fall I still have "banked" electricity to use for "free". I've done the math and you are right. Pellets don't save you a dime if you have oil or even a high efficiency heat pump. However, it's a much nicer heat. It's pretty much concentrated in the room you are in (we have two stoves). It's probably break even at best but we burn about 3 tons a year. Again, it's just a nice warm heat on a cold night.

[Taz]

Originally Posted by pjard

Dan

I have solar panels as well and typically late fall I still have "banked" electricity to use for "free". I've done the math and you are right. Pellets don't save you a dime if you have oil or even a high efficiency heat pump. However, it's a much nicer heat. It's pretty much concentrated in the room you are in (we have two stoves). It's probably break even at best but we burn about 3 tons a year. Again, it's just a nice warm heat on a cold night.

Totally agree, the primary heat source in the duplex up north is propane hot air, propane in North Conway is not cheap either plus the pellet stove keeps the common area we are in most of the time warm and comfortable evenly all the time while running. Primary heat source once it gets to set temp shuts off and it feels cold even though its at set temp. Not with pellet stove, continues to distribute warm air.

[JC19]

If you can get Vermont pellets go with them. I go through 4 pallets a season and they are amazing. Tried several other brands and they don’t burn as hot and have 5x the ash amount in the tray (meaning you need to clean your stove far more frequently).

I get mine at Home and Hearth in Hampton, NH and truck them home.

[SAB1]

Originally Posted by JC19

If you can get Vermont pellets go with them. I go through 4 pallets a season and they are amazing. Tried several other brands and they don’t burn as hot and have 5x the ash amount in the tray (meaning you need to clean your stove far more frequently).

I get mine at Home and Hearth in Hampton, NH and truck them home.

I have always been curious about those but the $310 a ton has kept me away. Those are a softwood pellet, white pine I believe and I figured they probably burned fast. If you burn a hardwood pellet do you go thru less?

[Slickcraft]

Originally Posted by SAB1

I have always been curious about those but the $310 a ton has kept me away. Those are a softwood pellet, white pine I believe and I figured they probably burned fast. If you burn a hardwood pellet do you go thru less?

The best pellets we ever had were softwood from western Canada. Have not seen them here for many years. Low ash and very good heat output.

Softwood, hardwood or a blend; a bag still contains 40 lbs of dry compressed cellulose. Softwood pellets normally have slightly higher BTU per pound due to the resin. Any good pellet stove will have automatic combustion control with an exhaust temperature sensor and auto adjustment of the pellet feed rate. So with our Harman it would take slightly less softwood pellets to get the same overall heat output.