kensfarm
Veteran Member
Has anyone tried burning the dry wood chips in a pellot stove? W/ the price of pellots going up year after year. Corn going up too.
Chipper Purchased a Dr Chipper
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Highbeam
Super Member
I wouldn't chance it with a 2500$ plus pellet stove. The sizing, density, and dusting characteristics of the pellet fuel is very controlled so just throwing junk in there is asking for trouble.
We still can get pellets for 169$ per ton in WA but they really have you by the short hairs. Factory produced fuels give the factory guys control just like the oil companies.
We still can get pellets for 169$ per ton in WA but they really have you by the short hairs. Factory produced fuels give the factory guys control just like the oil companies.
cmhyland
Platinum Member
Well,
I just got my Salsco 600 delivered today. I got to "Test" for an hour or so this afternoon and it works great. I'm running off my Kubota B2910 with plenty of Hp and i works good.
It really does pull stuff in, you just have to prune out Y crotches that are too wide. Made lots of chips in a short time....
Regards,
Chris
I just got my Salsco 600 delivered today. I got to "Test" for an hour or so this afternoon and it works great. I'm running off my Kubota B2910 with plenty of Hp and i works good.
It really does pull stuff in, you just have to prune out Y crotches that are too wide. Made lots of chips in a short time....
Regards,
Chris
LarryD
Veteran Member
OK, the wife uses those pellets for bedding in the horse stalls and the guy at Cenex (rural store) says they are the same thing. So now she just asks which is cheaper, horse bedding or stove fuel.
Tom_H
Veteran Member
It was rainy all weekend and with lots of other chores getting ready for X-mas, didn't have a chance to assemble and test the DR chipper.
I have to agree with highbeam. The wood chips have a high surface area to mass ratio. So much of the wood is exposed to oxygen that an entire load could burn so fast that it might possibly release heat so rapidly that it could start a flue fire or damage a flue. If I were to try it, I'd experiment with a small amount and gradually test larger quantities. Think how fast kindling burns up, this would go much faster. How tightly it is packed or fluffed would affect the burn speed as would chip size. If you experiment, it could be wise to control the burn rate with your air inlet control.
I have to agree with highbeam. The wood chips have a high surface area to mass ratio. So much of the wood is exposed to oxygen that an entire load could burn so fast that it might possibly release heat so rapidly that it could start a flue fire or damage a flue. If I were to try it, I'd experiment with a small amount and gradually test larger quantities. Think how fast kindling burns up, this would go much faster. How tightly it is packed or fluffed would affect the burn speed as would chip size. If you experiment, it could be wise to control the burn rate with your air inlet control.
Highbeam
Super Member
I looked a little and found that there are some specialized biomass burners that do claim to burn all sorts of biomass including cherry pits, corn, and even small wood chips. This is not standard or even common on consumer type pellet stoves, even the typical corn stove is meant for corn and/or pellets but lacks flexibility to burn any old hunk of biomass. Proper moisture content, density, cleanliness, and grain size requirements seem to be very strict with typical stoves.