Am I right or are the area stores?

[PA. Woodsman]

Who do you side with, me or the area stores that have signs out front that advertise that they are selling "wood stove pellets"? I always say "wood stoves burn logs-pellet stoves burn pellets". It should say "pellet stove pellets", right?

Just something to get me aggravated for some reason.....:greenchainsaw:

 

[stihl sawing]

I haven't noticed how they advertise them here, just i wouldn't have one. A lady we know has one and while it does heat up really good it uses a whole bag of those pellets a day. Don't know how big the bag was either but looked to be of good size. I then ask her how much was one of those bags and she told me 9.85. I thought Geez that's gonna add up over a month. Kinda neat the way it works though. Now i don't know if she was tellin the truth or knew what she was talkin about either cause i never checked on the price of the stove or pellets.

 

[gwiley]

I then ask her how much was one of those bags and she told me 9.85. .

At $10/day she is spending in one month what I spend a whole season harvesting wood for my OWB. I figured that I burn about $30/cord on consumables (fuel for truck/saw, mix, chains, files, amortize equipment costs) and I burn 10 cords/season.

Can't imagine going with a specialist fuel now that I can depend on an independently available fuel source.

 

[stihl sawing]

At $10/day she is spending in one month what I spend a whole season harvesting wood for my OWB. I figured that I burn about $30/cord on consumables (fuel for truck/saw, mix, chains, files, amortize equipment costs) and I burn 10 cords/season.

Can't imagine going with a specialist fuel now that I can depend on an independently available fuel source.

I don't know if she was right or not but like you said 10 bucks a day is way too much.

 

[flxblx]

Local RK's standard price is $4.99

Pellets are made from wood.

 

[Scootermsp]

I had a Whitfield pellet stove at my first house in 1997. They are sold by the ton. Each ton comes on a pallet and is comprised of 50 forty pound bags. Back in 1997 a ton was $150 delivered. I always bought 4 tons and heated for $600 for the Winter. Pellets are now around $260, so about $6.50 a bag. I used to pay $3 a bag....glad to be out cutting wood for my OWB and not handcuffed to a manufacturing process produced fuel!

 

[peterc38]

Can't imagine going with a specialist fuel now that I can depend on an independently available fuel source.

Amen to that!

 

[Vibes]

Plus those pellet stoves use electricity, which allot of woodburners don't.

I burn a Kerosene heater when its real cold out, though I don't recall the btu rating on it, its much cheaper to run than a pellet stove, can be used when the power is out, and is portable.

I've seen many pellet stoves on CL lately that, '' Need Repair''

 

[stihl sawing]

Plus those pellet stoves use electricity, which allot of woodburners don't.

I burn a Kerosene heater when its real cold out, though I don't recall the btu rating on it, its much cheaper to run than a pellet stove, can be used when the power is out, and is portable.

I've seen many pellet stoves on CL lately that, '' Need Repair''

Yup, Another reason to avoid them. If the electricity goes out you have no heat. I know around here when the electricity goes out everyone wants to come to my house.lol Well it sounds like if she's giving 10 dollars a bag for those pellets, she's gettin ripped off.

 

[KsWoodsMan]

There was a a 'basket' posted last year for comments. It would allow a woodburner to fill the backet and burn pellets in his wood stove. Maybe they are stocking burn baskets with their pellets. Maybe they also carry the bio-bricks.

Possibly just an avertizing ploy to get wood burners in the store to look over their products and make a resulting purchase so they can stay in business longer without down sizing their staff.

I'm with you. Logs are wood, pellets are wood. Essentially we are burning preprocessed pellets. Pellet burner pay extra for the convienence of packaging and consistancy of their wood.

I get a chuckle sometimes when I see "modern advertizing" ploys. Advertizers are directing them at the masses, not me. I seldom see much they are offering that I can't live without.

A man will spent his $20 on a $10 item if he NEEDS it.
A woman will spend his $20 for a sale item she wants, without needing it. People have more wants then needs. Adverisers try to make money on those wants.