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I also have coal hods. Cheap (found mine at a yard sale for $5.00 each), they look good when painted with black stove paint, and the wife can lift them.
What a waste! Pick up that bag and dropping into a bucket, then you have to lift the bag out, literally pulling it out of the pail with the weight of the pellets pulling at the sides until the bag is empty. More work yes, exercise yes, easy to use, can't see how. My stove top is barely warm to touch. The pellet hopper is raised with an extension so it holds 2 bags. I sit the bag on top of the stove, slit the top with a box cutter, then tip it backward where the whole thing dumps into the hopper. Never ever any melted plastic. If lifting 40 lbs is ever an issue, just dump, pour or scoop into any bucket or pail with a good handle and a lip to hold on to. Lowes has a Kingsford Charcoal Caddy Dispenser. It hold 40 lbs and has a snap on lid with a pour area. and it has a good handle on the side. Cost under $15. the one is the picture is clear, but the ones at our store are black.
Don't use the Pellet Pail but I do use these little galvanized pails to make it easier for the wife to
load the stove when I'm not around, which unfortunately is often.