Is the heating season half over? I used half my pellet stash.
Does this mean I should have enough pellets for the rest of the heating season?
Does this mean I should have enough pellets for the rest of the heating season?
Candlemas day aka when the whistle pig gets pulled from its hole in the ground on 2/2 is the half way mark.
I like to shoot (and eat) whistle pigs. If done right are real tasty and drop like a lead weight with a 17 HMR.
With the major moderation of the temps around here, the pile has been holding up very well. Haven't used but half tank of gas in snowblower. Had a car go thru the ice and the idiots were promptly arrested as they were burglarizing the shacks. If this weather trend holds may have to pull ice shacks way early. Coyotes are singing and looking for love.
The great American pastime in Minnesota.. Ice shanty fishing....
Looking at buying a Prairie Dog Pellet stove. Trying to get the owner to get a package with grill, stove and heater.Any pellet stoves in your Ice Shanty ? If so need pictures.
Looking back, 1/2 my pellets used last season occurred on Jan 21. But I'm a bit further south though.Is the heating season half over? I used half my pellet stash.
Does this mean I should have enough pellets for the rest of the heating season?
When one considers that November is the cloudiest month and December has the shortest daylight hours I say I can see the light at the end of the tunnelI'm 40% of the way through my 5 ton stash. That's more than I expected but I think it will come out about right.
Browse to the date when you started up your stove and make note of the average high and low. Jump ahead to the spring and find the approximate dates where the highs and lows are similar. That should give you a good idea of your heating season. Of course averages are just that but it's fun to tinker and predict.
Checked the last three years calendars in the basement, where I mark each bag that I dump into the stove, and if I divided the total bags burned for each year, the halfway point was 1/19, 1/21 and 1/20. So yea, I'd say I have reached the halfway point. I have burned 80 bags so far so I am on track to burn just over three tons. That will leave me with close to one ton of extras. Perfect. Right where I like to be.
Funny. I started with exactly 210 bags also.I'm about the exact same mepellet - just put in bag #85 of the 210 I started with, which included 30 bags of Crabbe's left over from last season.
Burning La Crete's has kept our drafty farmhouse as warm as any winter that I've burned pellets, but having to clean the ash out as frequently as I have to keep the stove running optimally has been a PITA.
I likely won't get LC's again next year - I don't mind paying extra for the better heat output of quality pellets, but having to clean the stove out daily is a deal breaker.
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