I bought 2 ton of Empire Pellets (made by Associated Harvest Co. in LaFargeville, N.Y.) with my stove. Dealer sold them to me for $240.00 per ton. Dealer normally sells them for $272.00 per ton. Bag claims: Premium wood pellets, Low ash content, Made with natural hard woods. No other ratings on the bag, like ash content percentage or sodium, ect. I have burned all of them and they burn ok, and seem to produce good heat, but produce a lot of ash and after 2 days the burn pot has a very thick and hard ash build up that starts to plug up the air ports in the burn pot. Also these pellets have a lot of dust. I have just purchased 2 tons of Dry Creek pellets at $229.00 per ton. So far there is less ash, less build up in the burn pot, and little dust in the bags. Heat from these pellets maybe just a slight bit more than the others, but it is hard to tell right now due to the outside temperature being alittle warmer. Tonight is suppose to be down in the teens maybe colder, so it should show then if they burn hotter or not. I know about how well the empire pellets heated at that outside temp. so i'll see if the dry creek does the same or better or worse. Hope fully better. I also did a little test on each pellet by breaking them down by soaking each with a little water. The dry creek came apart quicker but had mostly larger particals, the empire pellet took forever and I actually had to break it apart and it had more finer particals. Don't know how much that really means, but I thought I'd add that in here. Anyone else try doing this?
