OMG, Pellet Pigitis, Empty Hopper Horror, pellet induced nigh sweats. EEEEEEEEK
Well we do keep a close watch on the hoppers around here.
Burning the nut shells as we do, this stuff does not slide/roll down the hopper like pellets do and needs to be tended every few hours.
We can fill the hoppers completely before we head for work 10 AM and the stoves will be fine until we get home around 7 PM.
We fill the hoppers when we get home, then again at bed time, then I handle it again at around 5-6 AM.
Hopper fixation is not a bad thing, at least its better than those who forget and run the thing dry.
Around here, the pellet stove is an integral part of daily life. Check the stove, head down stairs and screen out two 6 gallon pails of shells, fill the stove/s go to work, come home, fill the stoves, go back down, screen more shells, do it over again.
It't not until summer and the stoves are all cleaned and mothballed that much changes around here.
Our social life (eavening out) revolves around the length of time that we can be away from the stoves.
If we had to leave for a weekend during the winter, we could stuff the Quad full of Pellets and let it handle the heating duties.
A day in the life of a Pellet stove USER
There are Pellet stove owners who use the stove for the occasional ambience, then there are those who live and breathe Pellet stoves.
The totally ANAL, all caring, all concerned, stove checking, fussing, fiddling Pellet pig types.
Ohhhh yesssss, absolutely nothing wrong with this.
Reach back in history just a very short time and family life everywhere revolved around the fire.
When I was a youngster, mom cooked on a Wood RANGE in the kitchen. You have not lived until you have done a thanksgiving dinner from start to finish on a Wood Range.
During the winter months, the wood range was nice, not so in August.
Keeping the hopper full
Snowy