Pellet Test in My Homemade Stoker

davidmcbeth3 · Post by **davidmcbeth3** » Sat. Apr. 11, 2015 7:36 pm

OP:

How much is your coal?

$550 USD for wood? Man those sheep have you guys over the barrel.

unhippy · Post by **unhippy** » Sat. Apr. 11, 2015 8:18 pm

People that buy pellet fires here a generally not short of money or just not real bright and buy the pellet burners for the eco-feelgood factor....people that are a little shorter of money normally go for a wood stove as you can scrounge firewood out of the forestry....lol I've never seen bags of pellets lying out in the bush waiting to be picked up and taken home

the pellets I got worked out at $550 NZD per ton....about $415 USD

my coal went up this year.....$92 NZD ($70 USD) dollars a ton now

SWPaDon · Post by **SWPaDon** » Sat. Apr. 11, 2015 8:29 pm

unhippy wrote:People that buy pellet fires here a generally not short of money or just not real bright and buy the pellet burners for the eco-feelgood factor....people that are a little shorter of money normally go for a wood stove as you can scrounge firewood out of the forestry....lol I've never seen bags of pellets lying out in the bush waiting to be picked up and taken home
the pellets I got worked out at $550 NZD per ton....about $415 USD

my coal went up this year.....$92 NZD ($70 USD) dollars a ton now

Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are, LOL

How much coal do you use per season?

unhippy · Post by **unhippy** » Sat. Apr. 11, 2015 9:54 pm

I used 2 1/2 ton in the stoker last year and about 2 1/2 ton of nut in the range....altho the range runs year round for DHW

i think I will use more in the stoker this year because rebuild means that I can fire harder= warmer house=happier Mrs= me

SWPaDon · Post by **SWPaDon** » Sat. Apr. 11, 2015 10:43 pm

You did real good then. I've burned 7.5 ton's so far, and my coal is pushing 13.400 BTU's if I remember correctly and this house isn't sealed well at all.

unhippy · Post by **unhippy** » Sat. Apr. 11, 2015 11:14 pm

our climate isn't as cold as you get tho.....

our climate is very similar to parts of Oregon so I have been told....by people that came from Oregon lol....our winters tend to be a couple of degrees above freezing during the day and 2 or 3 degrees of frost at night....we also get alot of rain in the winter so we get alot of dreary miserable days.

SWPaDon · Post by **SWPaDon** » Sat. Apr. 11, 2015 11:38 pm

unhippy wrote:our climate isn't as cold as you get tho.....

our climate is very similar to parts of Oregon so I have been told....by people that came from Oregon lol....our winters tend to be a couple of degrees above freezing during the day and 2 or 3 degrees of frost at night....we also get alot of rain in the winter so we get alot of dreary miserable days.

Oh I See, That does sound like Oregon. It gets much colder here where I'm at.