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Yep, it's a wonderful thing...I can get a little over 2 1/2 bags in if I fill every nook and cranny around the outside edge of the hopper....it's so nice not having to look at it for a couple of days.
i wheel my 32 gallon(or so) heavy duty Rubbermaid trashcan out into my attached garage(my stove is in my basement and i have access to the garage). then i park the can near my 4 ton stack of pellets i have along the wall and proceed to cut the bags one by one and fill the trashcan(holds 7 bags, which is about what i burn in a week) after wards i wheel the can back into my family room and park it next to the stove. i only have to fill the can once a week and then each day i use a spouted bucket like this one:
(broken link removed to http://www.americanchimneysweeps.com/brass_coal_hod.htm) to top off the hopper, except mine is from my grandfathers' old farm and is just an old metal one. my setup is perfect for me and i couldn't be happier with my stove.
I poke a hole in the top corner. My hubby cuts corner off with scissors. But we learned not to leave bags at dogs reach - they chew holes anywhere on the bags - bad dogs (I'm sure they were only trying to help as usual). We dump pellets into a Homer Bucket from Home Crapo, then pour into the pig - watch for foreign objects better this way than direct dump.
I poke a hole in the top corner. My hubby cuts corner off with scissors. But we learned not to leave bags at dogs reach - they chew holes anywhere on the bags - bad dogs (I'm sure they were only trying to help as usual). We dump pellets into a Homer Bucket from Home Crapo, then pour into the pig - watch for foreign objects better this way than direct dump.
I do the same thing I once found a piece of metal in a bag of pellets,it looked like it was used to press the wood pulp but had broken off and fell into the pellets,pellets to me are just like corn you should always see whats going in your hopper or just find it when your auger jams.