Posted on 02/27/2014 2:04:18 PM PST by nhwingut
Carol Newby's search for bags of wood pellets to fuel the family pellet stove took her on a tour of Southern New Hampshire last week, with little success.
"We usually get them at the local Agway," she said, "but they were in short supply and what they had was committed to customers who'd made pre-buys."
She was able to get a few bags at the Lowe's in Epping, but when she went back, they were out. After coming up empty at tractor supply stores in Epping and Hooksett, she tried a nearby Home Depot, which also had no pellets to sell.
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The pellets here are compressed sawdust.Pellet mills are available on Ebay to make your own.
Don’t use Frosted Flakes.
We used three tons of pellets last year. We bought 4 tons for this year figuring we’d have plenty left over. Because of the cold, it looks like we’ll be using most of the 4 tons.
A friend who uses pellet heat part time in his outbuilding gets them a pickup truck load at a time. He had trouble finding any earlier this week due to the shortage. One retailer wanted close to 2x the regular price. He finally found a few bags at the regular price.
Interesting. Here in virginia where we have had a cold and wet (snow and ice mostly) winter (which continues) our firewood supplier for 20+ years ran out of split wood and went to West Virginia to fill our “early spring replenishment.” We usually use 6-8 cords per winter and we’re on the high end of that range this year. Curiously, the latest west Virginia split oak/mixed hardwood was better cured than Clyde’s usual wood, which we try to dry for an additional six months after delivery.
Winter sucks. I’m ready for Spring.
TC
That’s why a good old cordwood stove is better. You can feed it just about any kind of scrap wood or tree parts you have.
Shutting down coal fired power plants should free up vast supplies of coal to be made into "Coal Pellets"?
A dependable supply of heating fuel that you store in advance on your own property.
With all the wood there is in NH, why in the world would anyone choose to heat with something you have to buy in a bag?
I heard Homeland security bought up 35 Billion rounds of wood pellets....
I’m sure there are a lot of places where you’ll get fined heavily for not using “approved” wood. This is the state of affairs in the formerly free world.
For example, in Phoenix if the temperature drops below 40F, the state always issues “pollution advisories” that trigger a big fine if you’re caught using your wood-burning fireplace.
Once you get north of the ~50 mile zone that is polluted by invaders from their liberal southern neighbor, NH still lives by their State slogan: "Live Free or Die!"...
Nope. Never been to NH.
But, other states are bifurcated as you describe, and the free folks are subjugated by the rotten urban centers so it doesn’t really matter what they think. Washington state is a very good example of this, California is another who treats people outside of the cities like peasants.
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