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Wood Pellet Stoves

I have a US stove brand, I am happy with it. I paid $2000 for mine that is with the Pell vent pipe. I have seen the stoves as low as $1500 as TSC. Mine is a multi-fuel stove that burns Wood pellets, corn, cherry pits. (mine will not burn coal) My home is 2500 sq. feet and a ranch style, built in 1999. I only burn wood pellets now, same price as corn and burns super clean, waaaayyyy cleaner then corn.
This winter will be my 5th winter using it.
My Pellet burner is made in Tennessee. (not China like everything else)
When it goes below +10F outside the main propain furnace kicks on and supplements. 2 months ago I bought 3 tons of pellets through a retailer in Mid-Michigan. I paid $637 delivered to my garage for the 3 tons. (not bad)
Pellets can be stored easily, stacked up like sand bags along a garage wall(s)
I may get an outdoor forced air wood furnace if I get some inheritance money, an outdoor furnace is $4,000.
 
I don't have any first-hand experience since I heat 100% with wood from the woods.

I do know this. Two years ago there was a severe shortage of wood pellets in my area of central NY. I know many people with pellet stoves that couldn't use them, and you don't find many pellets in the woods.

If your're going to go with a pellet stove, make sure you've got a good supply. Maybe even pre-buy in the summer and store enough pellets to last the winter.
 
Pellet supply could be an issue that is why you have to buy the pellets in the summer time when demand is low.
 
I don't own one but one of the guys at work put one in two years ago. Actually his is a pellet furnace. He buys the pellets bulk and stores them in his garage so he doesn't have to worry about shortages. I can ask him what brand etc.
As far as I know he really likes it. He was burning oil before and the prices shot up 2 years ago. Natural gas is not available to his location so pellet was the cheapest choice without all the work of cutting, splitting and storing wood.
 
i looked into pellet stoves im in ne pa and ran across coal stokers coal stoves were are cheaper coal is cheaper and gives off more btu so i went with a keystoker used it for 2 years wasnt quite big enough for the whole house in deep winter so i bought a second stove with 2 stoves running all winter long i burn 4 ton of coal at $195 a ton wife takes care of filling it most of the time its real easy generally just put a bucket in each day (could go longer prolly get about 4 days out of a hopper if needed) take out a pan of ashes about every 4 or 5 days
 
i bought a quadrafire stove about 2 yrs ago. so far its been excellent. its a multifuel, it will burn pellets or shelled corn. the yr i got it was the pellet shortage yr and i ended up getting about 1/2 ton of corn and was only able to get 1 ton of pellets. i have since learned you def need to procure the pellets in the summer less expensive and readily available. if i was to buy another pellets stove i would probabluy get another quadrafire or 1 of the multifuel burners as they're more versitile. mine won't heat the whole house but it heats the 1st floor nicely. it has cut our oil bill for the winter months in 1/2. if you get a stove i will say watch out for the pellets some of the brands aren't all that great and you will get lots of ash.
 
I had a St Croix wood pellet stove for 6 years,it is one of the better brands i have heard.The pellets are expensive and the stoves are very complicated, 4 electric motors, switches,ect. If you are in an area where there is alot of wood, a wood stove is much more practical.
 
The company that I work for has sold HARMAN pelletstoves for 19 years now and has been the largest dealer in NY for the past 5 years. There was a shortage of pellets a couple years back, but you could not buy a stove either. ($4.00 heating oil) There is no shortage of pellets today. Pellet plants in Schyler and Masena NY Our company maintains a 600 Ton inventory, and every lumber yard and "big box" has them for sale. You won't be unhappy with a pellet stove if it is properly sized and installed. Check out Harman online to find a dealer near you.
 
I like multi fuel stoves as you are not limited to pellets. Multi fuel can burn all types of pellets, corn, wheat, barley, cherry pits,
Choice of stove would depend on how you want it equipped. You can get automatic ignition, self start and stop via thermostat. Harman is a good name and the PC45 is a multi fuel stove. Quadra Fire Mount Vernon AE is another multi fuel stove with auto ignition and thermostat control. It also can be operated on a 12 volt car battery.It will switch over automatically if your power goes out. Bixby is another good stove with multi fuel capability. St Croix is also a good unit.
They all have to be cleaned and maintained regularly. I have burned corn and pellets for the past 6 years and used all the above stoves.
There is other good stoves out there but these seem to be the main ones available in the midwest.
There is a website called I Burn Corn.com that will give you all kinds of information about burning corn or pellets and they hqave a seperate section for most of the various brands of stoves.
 
I bought a Breckwell 5 years ago and it has been very good. I can heat my house on three ton of pellets and it is a lot warmer then the gas furnase. Last year gas prices came down and we used more gas when we were gone and when we were home we burnt the pellot stove, just a warmer heat. Also I live in wisconsin.
Bob
 
Love my pellet stove. I've had a Quadrefire for 6 years with 0 problems. I burn a 50/50 mix of pellets and corn. The pellets I burn are made from hardwood flooring sawdust. Very low ash and great heat.
 
Have been using an Englander since spring of 03. made in Virginia. Had to replace one blower & one auger motor, otherwise no real problems.
House is part original log cabin, with 3 additions, use about 4 ton of pellets a season. Gas back-up cuts in when temp is -10 & north wind off the lake.
Can pre-buy now at 185 a ton, will make the call tomorrow.
Willie
 
Our house has a Harmon. The previous owners installed it in place of a wood stove a few years ago and after I actually took the time to figure it out and clean it properly, it worked great for what was left of winter.

Only problem is that it's not quite big enough for our house, and it doesn't heat the upstairs. The thermostat is in the same room (only about 8' away) as the stove also so the furnace hardly ever kicks in. I'm thinking about moving it to the other end of the room atleast, maybe that would make it kick in more often and help spread the heat around.

Another freind of ours lives near the tip of Maine and they have the same stove. It'll heat their whole house.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
we have a Whitfield (Lennox) that we got 8 years ago. Have liked it and had a circuit board problem under warranty and need bearings in the blower motor but no other issues. We put in a Class A chimney with ours so we could switch later if we wanted. Usually burn 2-1/2 tons/year but last year (and right now) Natural gas has been cheaper than pellets so we only burned about 1-1/2 tons last year.

I'd get another one in a heart beat but would get multi-fuel but you still have to watch prices. For a while corn was higher than pellets.
 
Very GOOD point. THe same shortage hit this area, and there was a very simple reason for that shortage. Oil was high so pellets were in big demand while at the same time 90% of the mills that produce pellets were in the process of filing for bankruptcy.
The forestry sector is still sitting in the tank here right now. Mills are closed or running at reduced capacity and all are paying very low prices for fiber... so they're not getting much fiber in.
Combine that with new initiatives here in NS to set up 200 MW of co-generation at the local pulp mill, fired with biomass... which is basically the feedstock for the pellet mills... and I think one can expect another shortage of pellets on the horizion in at least eastern canada.

Rod
 
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