Wood Pelet Stoves

[TABSTER]

The pellets are not made in Slave lake anymore. Haven't been for over a year. Vanderwells have nothing to do with this company.

www.dansons.com

Made right in edmonton.
a pallet of pellats ( 60 bags ) was $260.00 if my memory serves me correct.

 

[OVERKILL 19]

How do you guys find your stoves for noise?

 

[Polarblu]

How do you guys find your stoves for noise?

Mines is old and noisey. It is the el'cheapo kozi model 100. Simple and reliable.

KOZI Home Page.

It is easily 10 years old and have to done very little maintenece. Other than my kitty experience that is

 

[bigz64]

ive been talking with a pellet expert over the past few days, he experiments with different materials.

he told me that he has been trying straw pellets, they put out a higher btu value than wood and are cheaper. i asked about clogging up the feed system or residue in the exhaust pipe. he told me that the new wood pellet stoves will be able to handle straw pellets. the only down side is that there is more ash than wood pellets.

so if this is true your looking at very cheap pellets, $50 a ton. i will try this out this summer and report my findings

 

[medler]

How do you guys find your stoves for noise?

The only thing you hear from mine is the blower fan (which you can turn off)And the little hum of the the motor that blows the air to the burn pot.

 

[gro4u]

bigz64 - wow - that is cheap. any info on what kind of straw it is (wheat, canola, flax, peas)? Flax straw in particular has huge BTU's. Canola and peas not so much. That is cheap though - on my farm I sold my wheat straw for more $ than that in the form of round bales (this year was higher than average though). Any idea where they get them pelletted and bagged?

slederglen - the loose handling is a pipe dream no doubt. I entertain it once and a while because I already own some equipment that might make it feasible. IT's hard to come up with anything more convenient than the bags though for the price.

 

[catzuki]

ive been talking with a pellet expert over the past few days, he experiments with different materials.

he told me that he has been trying straw pellets, they put out a higher btu value than wood and are cheaper. i asked about clogging up the feed system or residue in the exhaust pipe. he told me that the new wood pellet stoves will be able to handle straw pellets. the only down side is that there is more ash than wood pellets.

so if this is true your looking at very cheap pellets, $50 a ton. i will try this out this summer and report my findings

Where is he out of? I have been looking for straw pellets. I have herd good things on a few other sites. Its just like grain, more ash, but less cost. I know down in the states theyre is alot of bio mass pellet mills. They use anything for them. Paper,straw,cerry pits,etc. I would be interested in trying some of those for sure.

 

[bigz64]

hes got a site in PEI of all places, he experiments with alot of materials. he sells pellet machines now




i havent talked to farmers in a while about straw bales lately, i remember a few years you could buy round bales for $5-$20.(thats what im basing the $50 a ton on) do you know what the going rate was last year?
i know very dry years when hay is very hard to find some farmers resort to feeding straw to their cattle. those years this will not work as the cost will be to high

 

[catzuki]

ive been talking with a pellet expert over the past few days, he experiments with different materials.

he told me that he has been trying straw pellets, they put out a higher btu value than wood and are cheaper. i asked about clogging up the feed system or residue in the exhaust pipe. he told me that the new wood pellet stoves will be able to handle straw pellets. the only down side is that there is more ash than wood pellets.

so if this is true your looking at very cheap pellets, $50 a ton. i will try this out this summer and report my findings

hes got a site in PEI of all places, he experiments with alot of materials. he sells pellet machines now




i havent talked to farmers in a while about straw bales lately, i remember a few years you could buy round bales for $5-$20.(thats what im basing the $50 a ton on) do you know what the going rate was last year?
i know very dry years when hay is very hard to find some farmers resort to feeding straw to their cattle. those years this will not work as the cost will be to high

I can bale flax with net wrap for about 5-8 bale. Twin is about 1 buck/bale. I actually looked into a lawson mill last year. But for the 20k price tag, i couldnt justify it.Although if a couple guys got in on one, it wouldnt be as bad.

 

[gro4u]

hes got a site in PEI of all places, he experiments with alot of materials. he sells pellet machines now




i havent talked to farmers in a while about straw bales lately, i remember a few years you could buy round bales for $5-$20.(thats what im basing the $50 a ton on) do you know what the going rate was last year?
i know very dry years when hay is very hard to find some farmers resort to feeding straw to their cattle. those years this will not work as the cost will be to high

I sold wheat straw for $28/bale for a net wrapped 1100lb bale. that is much higher than normal but after paying $8/bale for baling, the remainder only covers the value of the nutrients you remove from the field. I would love to try some of these biomass pellets to see how they perform. There is still a lot of room pricewise between these and wood pellets. I don't grow flax but I think that it might make awesome pellets. I know flax straw can be a nuisance for the following crop too so you don't need as much value to consider getting it off the field. Sorry to others if we derailed this thred off of pellet stoves - but this is interesting discussion about fuel source.

 

[finkous]

just put one in loft of my barn, at 30 below it will heat it up the mancave to +15 now that its insulated (thanks ron for gettin me that) and i got a pallet of pellets from the ufa and came to just about 5 bucks a bag. but its no where near what a wood stove puts out, but mine is care free for about 10 hrs on a full hopper

 

[medler]

just put one in loft of my barn, at 30 below it will heat it up the mancave to +15 now that its insulated (thanks ron for gettin me that) and i got a pallet of pellets from the ufa and came to just about 5 bucks a bag. but its no where near what a wood stove puts out, but mine is care free for about 10 hrs on a full hopper

I should check into UFA for pellets here in Airdrie....I usually go to Home Hardware.....Canadian Tires' Pellets suck...all ashes and low BTUs...