How do you unload and store your wood pellets?

[Tonyray]

How far ya haulin' them ??????????? Pretty good load for that truck .......

about half mile from dealers wharehouse to my house....

 

[Big papa]

Here's how I do it I travel about 30 miles to pick them up

 

[Tonyray]

Here's how I do it I travel about 30 miles to pick them up

I Would never travel 30 miles with an overloaded truck as u can see in my post. too dangerous and prob would get a ticket.
my dealer is in an Industrial park half mile from my house.. old gravel road off highway for 1/4 mile, then 1/4 paved dead end road to my house.
Wharehouse is behind those trees down the street.
Lucky for me he is so close... small town USA.
Home depot is 1/2 mile in other direction when I want to pick up some Stove chows for shoulder season.

 

[Big papa]

I Would never travel 30 miles with an overloaded truck as u can see in my post. too dangerous and prob would get a ticket.
my dealer is in an Industrial park half mile from my house.. old gravel road off highway for 1/4 mile, then 1/4 paved dead end road to my house.
Wharehouse is behind those trees down the street.. small town USA.

My truck is rated to tow 11,300lbs trailer in pick and pellets weigh 10,300lbs my truck was under loaded by 1000lbs and handled it fine. Neither vehicle trailer or truck was overloaded.oh and to spare any future questions I had a local DOT police officer review this set up and I am legal to 11300lbs just to be sure

 

[OhioBurner©]

Here's how I do it I travel about 30 miles to pick them up

Wish I had a trailer like that!

I bought pellets for the first time last week. 2T on the truck and 1T on the trailer. About at trailer rating, slightly over on the truck but I often haul more than that for a lot longer distances.

Tractor bucket couldn’t pick up a whole tone, didn't figure it would but tried. However for going in the house it came in handy. Brought the bucket up to the load and slipped a smaller pallet on the bucket tines and through on a pile of bags. Then with the extra reach of the bucket I can pull up to the steps on the porch and the bags are right at the front door, raised up to perfect working height. I stacked 32 bags in by the stove on the brick hearth where I used to stack wood. Rest 2.x tons went in the back of the garage. They were packaged so well probably could have left them outside, but I don't really have a good spot by either door to put them. I'll just do the same when the time comes and fill up the tractor bucket and pull up over the porch to the front door.







^excuse the mess havent been using that room all year and just took out the leftover firewood that was stacked there. Got to clean out all the boxes and junk, and take out the woodstove, pellet stove is sitting right out the front door on the porch. Door is right next to that window, so luckily only have to carry those bags of pellets about 5 steps if I use the tractor bucket to get em right to the door.

 

[Big papa]

Nice set up there.that trailer is built like a tank and weighs as much too I like to get an ez loader weighs 2000lbs less so I can haul 4 tons at a time and still be under my trucks max lbs

 

[ChrisWNY]

I would be concerned sliding them, doesn't it create substantially more fines?

Not that I've noticed. Depending on how strong the bags are, however, they can split when they hit the bottom of the slide. I had about 9 or 10 Pro Pellet bags split on me the other day just sliding them on my ramp on the basement staircase.

 

[ChrisWNY]

How far ya haulin' them ??????????? Pretty good load for that truck .......

I wondered that myself. No way I'd load 2 tons into the bed of my 2014 Ford F-150 STX. 1 ton alone puts a lot of load on the suspension and I only have to haul them about 5 miles from TSC to my home.

 

[Big papa]

I'm pretty sure that's a 250?

 

[hossthehermit]

Not that I've noticed. Depending on how strong the bags are, however, they can split when they hit the bottom of the slide. I had about 9 or 10 Pro Pellet bags split on me the other day just sliding them on my ramp on the basement staircase.

That's one of the reasons the bottom of my slide rests on a table, it shortens the drop. PLUS, it leaves the bags at waist height so I don't have to lift 'em up off the floor ..........

 

[dlehneman]

I haul anywhere from 10-30 bags at a time home in my SUV, park in the driveway and lug them 1 at a time through the garage, through the kitchen and down the basement stairs, then stack them on racks I built along the walls. Up to 5.5 tons so far this year this way....I earn my dinner with all that work!
I stored them in the garage the first year I had the stove which saved a whole lotta work, but ate up way too much space. The basement can store over 6 tons on my racks and could easily accommodate more if I need it to (plenty of storage space there).

 

[OhioBurner©]

I wondered that myself. No way I'd load 2 tons into the bed of my 2014 Ford F-150 STX. 1 ton alone puts a lot of load on the suspension and I only have to haul them about 5 miles from TSC to my home.

I'm pretty sure that's a 250?

Not sure if your confusing me and TonyRay there Big Papa... his is obviously a Chevy. Cant tell if 1500-3500. If thats a 1500 thats one heck of a load! Bet the axle would be riding on the bump stops. But like he said he's only got a very short distance, as long as there is not big potholes I can't see it being a major problem. If its a heavy duty then not as big of deal.

Mines an F350 with heavy service suspension:

Even with that it drops the back end about a half of foot, but still two fingers between the springs and the big bumper thingies. The truck is rated around 4,000# payload but of course my gear inside plus the tongue weight of the trailer puts it over that. I do haul that or a bit more somewhat frequently for A LOT longer distances... bet I've clocked a couple thousand miles so far with >4,000# in the bed. Probably could have got a dually.

Only problem I've had so far is my bed floor is all warped

 

[coobie]

My truck is rated to tow 11,300lbs trailer in pick and pellets weigh 10,300lbs my truck was under loaded by 1000lbs and handled it fine. Neither vehicle trailer or truck was overloaded.oh and to spare any future questions I had a local DOT police officer review this set up and I am legal to 11300lbs just to be sure

Ya gotta love folks who make DUMB comments when they don,t even know your towing weights.Good looking setup you have there,nice trailer.

 

[UpStateNY]

Raised ranch, delivered to driveway in front of garage, put 5 bags at a time in traditional wheelbarrow, wheel to back of house and in outside room under back deck. Fortunately rodents don't eat wood pellets. During the winter I have to haul one to two bags a day upstairs to burn. Its good exercise if I want to stay warm.

 

[Big papa]

Ya gotta love folks who make DUMB comments when they don,t even know your towing weights.Good looking setup you have there,nice trailer.

Well what tow ratings are you referring to

 

[Big papa]

My truck is a 2012 f150 with the max tow package.7700lb gvwr-front gawr 3900 lb-rear gawr 4200lb tires LT. rated for over 3000lbs hitch class 4 rated at 1450lbs weight distributing BW reciever rated at 1500 lbs. my truck empty weighs 5577lbs.can legally handle a ton in the bed and pull 11,300 lbs.not sure what I'm missing here maybe you could shed some light

 

[reg1952]

I have an extension ladder and screwed Lexan onto it and put legs on one end. One end sat at top of stairs and the on the other end at bottom of stairs the legs held the ladder up about 3' of the floor. My back door comes into the house right at the stairs. I back the truck up to door and I place bags at top of ladder and they slide right down to the bottom where they stop and my son picks them up there and piles them. Now this year he got married and moved out. So I bored a 4'' hole though my wall, made a hopper in garage and they flow down the hopper though a pipe right into the stove. Lots of room in my garage now to store them now that his stuff is gone.

PS. My ladder/slid is for sale if anyone is close.

 

[coobie]

Well what tow ratings are you referring to

I was referring to tonyray foolish comments.

 

[ChrisWNY]

That's one of the reasons the bottom of my slide rests on a table, it shortens the drop. PLUS, it leaves the bags at waist height so I don't have to lift 'em up off the floor ..........

Yeah I'll have to figure something out to lessen the impact at the bottom of the "staircase slide". I hadn't ever experienced problems with bags splitting until the Pro Pellets. I chalked it up to cheap/weak bags. I could drop the Instant Heat pellet bags off the 2nd story roof and they probably would not have split on a concrete surface.

 

[Tonyray]

I was referring to tonyray foolish comments.

Was referring TO Myself NOT driving 30 miles with MY OVERLOADED TRUCK. Not Bigpapa.
Read it again and take your time so ya don't spit out [Foolish] comments....

 

[coobie]

Was referring TO Myself NOT driving 30 miles with MY OVERLOADED TRUCK. Not Bigpapa.
Read it again and take your time so ya don't spit out [Foolish] comments....

I think you tweeked your post after you wrote it?

 

[OhioBurner©]

I think you tweeked your post after you wrote it?

Then maybe you should have quoted it. I for one had no idea what you were talking about. Very confusing when there are multiple responses going on at the same time and not sure who is talking to who. He may be overloaded (we don't really know he hasnt said maybe its a 3500 with extra springs or something, no one really asked) but even just half ton if your just going a short distance I don't see it as a big deal if its just an old beater truck (but again hard to tell from the pic).

 

[Tonyray]

I think you tweeked your post after you wrote it?

this was my comment [un-tweeked]
I Would never travel 30 miles with an overloaded truck as u can see in my post. too dangerous and prob would get a ticket.
my dealer is in an Industrial park half mile from my house.. old gravel road off highway for 1/4 mile, then 1/4 paved dead end road to my house.
Wharehouse is behind those trees down the street.
Lucky for me he is so close... small town USA.
Home depot is 1/2 mile in other direction when I want to pick up some Stove chows for shoulder season.
Obviously you read it as commenting on Big Papa's rig but it was my Overloaded truck that I would not take on a 30 mile run..
Only a short half mile as I stated..

 

[tiger]

OK, new to this, got my 2 tons delivered in the driveway, and over three days my wife and I carried them into the basement, right through the house (and unlike firewood, no debris to clean up afterward!) I'll say this, while she complained a bit she never slowed down; I could have stopped for a beer and she would have kept on going.

The stairs were of course the least-fun part. I have an outside stairwell I have not been using, and I just roofed it over (w/walls, doors, etc). I'm thinking about setting up to get the bags in via that, and at first thought about a schoolyard sliding board and was wondering about what angle would suffice to get them to slide. Then, here at the office, they are reconfiguring the warehouse and I was looking at a leftover section of roller-conveyor, and hmm, I know the bags should roll on that (foam rubber stopper at the bottom). I could load up, eh, 25 bags at a time in the utility trailer behind the car, drive the rig around behind the house, and as fast as the wife could toss them on the conveyor, I could pull them off at the bottom and stack.

 

[Dustin]

I hit the easy button on this one.

HD drops them just inside the carport, then i pallet jack them into the corner. Stove is just inside the carport door.

I did however buy a bucket to keep near the stove. I fill this bucket, holds about one bag and leave it next to the stove.

Happy wife.. Happy life