PTO Pellet maker

[955er]

Saw one of these for sale here in Michigan. Does anyone have any experience with one of these? The video does not do a good job of showing what they are feeding in.

Looks pretty cool...

 

[955er]

Sorry,

American Made Pellet Mill Pellet Machine | Pellet Mill

 

[jimmysisson]

Agreed, you'd trust them more if they showed you more. 4+ minutes of watching pellets come out the crude chute is nor very informative. There have been mixed reviews of these small scale mills.
Jim

 

[beenthere]

And there might be a reason the video isn't showing the other operation of milling the wood stock (juniper in this case) to prepare it for the pelletizer.
Any idea what just the pellet maker costs?

 

[whitedogone]

Way too expensive to get set up to make your own pellets. You need a hammer mill and a pellet mill. And most likely you'll need a dryer as well. You can buy a LOT of PALLETS of pellets for the cost of getting this operation set up.

 

[955er]

And there might be a reason the video isn't showing the other operation of milling the wood stock (juniper in this case) to prepare it for the pelletizer.
Any idea what just the pellet maker costs?

Over $5 thousand

 

[pitt_md]

I run a corn/pellet stove all winter. I will go through about 1.5 tons of fuel for typical MN winter. I burn 50% corn and 50% pellets. At $257.00 per ton or $385/year it's going to take over twelve years to break even if it is trouble free.

 

[beenthere]

They are not trouble free, and they wear out internal parts very fast. The dies that extrude the pellets wear out quickly due to friction and a lot of dirt that gets into the chips and stock being fed to the pellet machine. That has been a problem for the last 30+ years that pellets have been made.
Might be fun tho.