New Plant this Year for Eastern Canada (Crabbes)

[kobalt]

You are one of the few who do not like Eastern Embers that I know of. I have tried many
different kinds of pellets but none as good as the Eastern Embers. I will try the Crabbes and hope
that you are right in your evaluation.

 

[peirhead]

I picked up 7 bags from Walmart (all I could get on a cart) and will probably repeat the process each time I go there. Home heating oil here is 30% higher than last year so I'm glad my primary source of heat is pellets and prices for them are finally dropping a bit!! By the way Walmart has the taxes set properly on the pellets...GST only!!

 

[carter123]

I picked up 7 bags from Walmart (all I could get on a cart) and will probably repeat the process each time I go there. Home heating oil here is 30% higher than last year so I'm glad my primary source of heat is pellets and prices for them are finally dropping a bit!! By the way Walmart has the taxes set properly on the pellets...GST only!!

Excellent! I picked up 3 bags to try them and am pleased they claim to be 8400 BTU! I haven't had a chance to try them yet though. Let me know what you think.....

 

[peirhead]

I bought 10 bags of Crabbes today from Illsleys Feed in Summerside...Watch the bags, they seem to be a bit less durable than some others I've used, easy to puncture and rip at the seams...got to start burning I guess!!

 

[kobalt]

Would be interested in knowing how the Crabbes burn.

 

[StuartQF]

I've had the opposite experience with the bags, they seem tougher than most others I've handled. Brought 210 of those bags in through my basement window and only had one bag come apart (when I threw it at my brother instead of handing it to him...)

As an aside, I can see the Crabbes pellet mill from my window

 

[peirhead]

Hey Stuart...welcome to the forum....we will all be interested to hear everyone's burning experience for these pellets...let us know what stove and applicable settings you used for your results...my Quad I usually have running on medium....good stove, but no rods or baffles or air controls to play with...good for me otherwize I'd be tinkering with it alll the time instead of enjoying it!!

 

[StuartQF]

I'm using the Europa 75, have only had it on 3 so far with ash extraction set to 8 and combustion fan on 8, felt hotter than the comfy cozy and eastern embers on the same settings. I'll know more once it starts to get really cold.

 

[peirhead]

Thanks for the info Stuart...I was really impressed with the design and specs of the Europa but havent heard much from actual users..looking forward to hearing your experiences with the stove as well as pellets.!!

 

[braket]

Walmart in Saint John is selling the Ecoenergetic pellets from Quebec for $4.67/ 40lb bag. Does anybody have any experience with these?

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[peirhead]

The specs look good, and most of the Quebec pellets get good reviews....I expect to try the ones I bought in a couple of weeks,so I'll post my experience with them.

 

[kobalt]

I bought 3 bags of the Walmart Eco-energetic pellets Friday and I am burning my second bag now. I have to say that I am impressed so far. I am getting about 8 degrees more heat then from the Eastern Embers, they light real quick, much better then the Eastern Embers and the ash seems about the same. I don't know if they are hardwood or softwood. They are a little darker in color then the Shaw's. The price is right I just wish that I had not already bought the Eastern Embers. I will get a few bags of the Crabbe's the next trip to Summerside to try. Interested in comments from others on this product.

 

[pete324rocket]

Very tempting to say something smart about your extra 8 degrees of heat, but since we are all Maritimers here, best to stick together.....

 

[kobalt]

I do have a Lacrosse Infrascan that I use to check the temp coming out of the stove from the fan. I can get an accurate temperature using that product.

 

[hemlock]

Are any of you familair with "Trueburn" pellets? I've seen them for a good price here, but have heard nothing about them.

 

[pete324rocket]

They are made down the road from me... 80/20 hardwood softwood I think I recall....I find them very hot, top of the pile for me.

 

[carter123]

Have you burnt the Comfy Cozy pellets? If so, what heat do you get? I can't tell with my stove what kind of heat I'm getting. I did burn 3 bags of the WalMart pellets (I only bought 3 to try them) and then went back to the Comfy Cozy that I had on hand. I found that the WalMart pellets weren't completely burning up and were clumping up in the burn pot whereby the Comfy Cozy pellets are burning better. That said I could care less and want to stock up whichever ones burn the hottest. Help, anyone?

 

[fedtime]

We just started seeing Canawick pellets here in Halifax. Anyone try those yet?

 

[tomasulo]

TP Downey pellets are also really good. From NB I got them at Home Hardware here in PEI. Excellent pellets.

 

[pete324rocket]

TP Downey pellets are also really good. From NB I got them at Home Hardware here in PEI. Excellent pellets.

tp downey is the same as trueburn. tp downey is the lumber mill name.

 

[carter123]

Hey PEIRHEAD, do you have any input from either the WalMart pellets or the Crabbes? I just picked up some Canawicks at Canadian Tire and I'm really liking them so far. Clean, seems to burn really hot and hot them for 4.99/bag. I'd love to get me hands on the Crabbes to try them....

 

[peirhead]

Haven't tried them yet..I have 7 bags of the wal-mart and 10 bags of crabbs...burning my eastern Embers for a while to get a baseline, then will try the others...I did try the Canawik last year and found they burn good but a bit slow in my castile..I ususally burn on Med , but with them I had to keep it on high to burn them clean.

 

[hemlock]

Stopped in to get a bag of Trueburns to try out, but found the price was not as great as I thought (still not bad though). $4.99 per bag, but only a 33 lbs, as opposed to Eastern Embers for $5.50 for 40 lbs.

 

[Honda]

Been running a Harman p-61 for 5 winters. Before Crabbe's were producing I had burned Shaw, LG, and a few comfy cozy, Nashwaak Valley, Trueburn, Ambiance and Maine Woods. Been Burning Crabbe's since they went on the market. Burned about 4.5 tonne last year and the same this year. I find they are up there with the best and the price is great and they are manufactured 15 min from my home. I found that I liked the LG and Shaw the best previously, and I would say the Crabbe pellets are equal with those two and cost less. Comfy cozy are on the bottom of my list, burn ok and low heat output.

 

[kobalt]

I would agree completely with you Harmanator. I burned 10 bags of Crabbes and will buy a few pallets of them next year if the price remains the same. I too burn mostly shaws and see little difference in them although I found the Crabbes a lot cleaner and more uniform in size.