This Forum is Creating the Pellet Panic!!

[moey]

Just saw a oil sign for $2.84... Seriously folks if your having trouble finding pellets and have a decent home heating system your not saving much money burning pellets.

 

[PELLETCONVERT]

Just saw a oil sign for $2.84... Seriously folks if your having trouble finding pellets and have a decent home heating system your not saving much money burning pellets.

At the moment, can change quickly........
one possible storm in the gulf, geopolitical incident, or cold weather

Always goes up a LOT faster than down

 

[johnpma]

yesterday I paid $3.17/gallon for gasoline at the pump. Last night I stopped at TSC and I heard the manager say that next week pellets are going up $25/ton because of transportation costs.....I do not understand transportation increases when the price of both gasoline and diesel is down

 

[Harman Lover 007]

You sure? I have burned Maines Choice and Geneva in succession, purchased within a couple of weeks, and they were definitely different in both appearance and how they burned. I read somewhere that Geneva uses different fiber for each label.

I have also purchased Green Supreme shipped form Jaffrey, not sure why they would rebag, I have to assume they sell far more green supreme label than newp label.

Yes, I'm sure...it's been documented here many times.

 

[Tim Linden]

yesterday I paid $3.17/gallon for gasoline at the pump. Last night I stopped at TSC and I heard the manager say that next week pellets are going up $25/ton because of transportation costs.....I do not understand transportation increases when the price of both gasoline and diesel is down

You have to look at the cost of Diesel. There is also costs for the truckers and their
trucks that keep going up too.

 

[JustWood]

yesterday I paid $3.17/gallon for gasoline at the pump. Last night I stopped at TSC and I heard the manager say that next week pellets are going up $25/ton because of transportation costs.....I do not understand transportation increases when the price of both gasoline and diesel is down

Raw material has to be sourced from outside of normal pools. i.e. greater distances.
Pellets are coming to a retailer near you from greater distances.
Fuel alone in a loaded truck is +/- $1/mile.

 

[SininStyle]

When I was at Lowes, all the pellets were spoken for. Chatted with the head sales clerk and was informed that they were trying to get the customers who were waiting for agrees Supreme to switch to Maine's Choice and told them they were actually Green Supreme under a different name and would I like a ton of two since no one seemed to want them. The UPC's matched the name brand GS bags they had there so I assumed that was good info. On this forum, several have said Green Supremes are NEWP pellets. All very confusing but I just hope the Accentra 52i likes what I feed it.

which lowes was this?

 

[Peterfield]

You have to look at the cost of Diesel. There is also costs for the truckers and their
trucks that keep going up too.

Because they can't say they're gouging us until the hysteria subsides. Some gas stations have done the same thing during "shortages".

 

[Ctcarl]

This is a good thread I called my oil guy and he's charging 319 a gallon.that's the lowest I've seen it.so I told him to top it off.dnt know when it will get this low again.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Just saw a oil sign for $2.84... Seriously folks if your having trouble finding pellets and have a decent home heating system your not saving much money burning pellets.

You have to see it drop another 80 cents a gallon to equal my pellet costs.

 

[Pete Zahria]

I'm wondering that if everyone would just be calm and we had a one month moratorium on buying (for those who have pellets already), I suspect the prices would start dropping when panic sets in at the retailer level as their stock just sits there.

Panic with the stock sitting there? What stock sitting there??
We had one ton for sale this morning.... Begging for stock... Would have no problem selling a trailer load every morning.
Happy as crap to get one a week..
Prices are going up.... You might believe they will go down... I don't see it.
People were accusing some of scare tactics.. Believe what you want....
There is one place locally selling 5 bag limits now. Yeah.. Like last spring. Except it's only October..
Our local Lowes isn't expecting to take orders until the end of November..

People that say they can get all they want... That's great, we are happy for you... But it ain't like that here...

 

[TimfromMA]

I drove by Royal Fireside in Mendon, MA and their yard was full of pellets.

 

[Pete Zahria]

I drove by Royal Fireside in Mendon, MA and their yard was full of pellets.

When I checked Lowes this morning they probly had 100 tons, or so.
Problem there, was that all had these little stickers on them that said "sold"...
They were at over 12,000 bags on the wait list.

 

[BrotherBart]

Gonna be a lot of pellet stoves and pellets on craigslist next summer. Reminds me of the run on pellet stoves in 2008.

 

[Deromax]

My cousin is a manager at a Rona shop and he said I was smart to purchase my stock back in august. They are now out of stock of Orford/Ambiance and their next shipment due next week is already pre-sold. They do have some Granulco in stock but it seems they are not very popular, for some reasons.

 

[Peterfield]

Panic with the stock sitting there? What stock sitting there??
We had one ton for sale this morning.... Begging for stock... Would have no problem selling a trailer load every morning. ton in their
Happy as crap to get one a week..
Prices are going up.... You might believe they will go down... I don't see it.
People were accusing some of scare tactics.. Believe what you want....
There is one place locally selling 5 bag limits now. Yeah.. Like last spring. Except it's only October..
Our local Lowes isn't expecting to take orders until the end of November..

People that say they can get all they want... That's great, we are
happy for you... But it ain't like that here...

Well, this morning I passed a TSC in New Hampster east of Concord that have stacks of pallets of pellets and a sign on them saying "buy by the ton and save". Took a ride into the parking lot and they have stacks out front, stacks on the side of the building and mucho stacks in their storage yard in back. Several pickup trucks were leaving with a ton in the back.

 

[JustWood]

Well, this morning I passed a TSC in New Hampster east of Concord that have stacks of pallets of pellets and a sign on them saying "buy by the ton and save". Took a ride into the parking lot and they have stacks out front, stacks on the side of the building and mucho stacks in their storage yard in back. Several pickup trucks were leaving with a ton in the back.

If I were a pellet maker you could bet yur last $ I wood supply a retailer that sells my product year round , first . Other retailers that move little product or only sell seasonal , wood have to suck Orange Tang through a lamp wick. It's just good business .

 

[Deromax]

However, if EU wants to buy your product in bulk for, say, 50% more than the locals, guess who would get the stuff? They recently built those 150 feet high silos in the Quebec city harbor, where they are shipping pellets by the boat-load to EU. This is real!

 

[RMongeau]

I drove by Royal Fireside in Mendon, MA and their yard was full of pellets.

I emailed Royal Fireside a few weeks ago, after seeing their name mentioned here a few times. Wanted to see if they had any stock.
I never got a reply.

 

[CBL]

Greene Team are up to $350 a ton at lowes. Somebody is smoking something good!!

Huh?

Just saw a oil sign for $2.84... Seriously folks if your having trouble finding pellets and have a decent home heating system your not saving much money burning pellets.

The shale revolution is here. Frack baby, frack.

 

[Pete Zahria]

Well, this morning I passed a TSC in New Hampster east of Concord that have stacks of pallets of pellets and a sign on them saying "buy by the ton and save".

Great news!
For you guys..... ...
I just called our TSC (Rochester), and they had 60 this morning, now have less than 20 (3:20pm),
knows he will be out tomorrow.. don't know what or when he will get more....

I just called each of these.
TSC Rochester <20.. So later today probly out
Walmart out
Home Depot Rochester out
Home Depot Somersworth <20 ton... so later today probly out
Lowes out
Middleton out
McManus out
TSC Epping, just got them in, a few brands, should be good for a week?

Keep in mind when a place, right now, has 20-30-40 ton on the ground,
that is nothing. That'll go very fast.
Lowes sold ~40 just this morning. So for discussion only, that's two trailer truck loads..

Dan

 

[CTguy9230]

I just picked up 5 tons of Presto-logs from my local Lowes
I bought one yesterday and bought the rest today because they said they have a 4 ton limit

 

[Big papa]

Gonna be a lot of pellet stoves and pellets on craigslist next summer. Reminds me of the run on pellet stoves in 2008.

I'm not selling my stove till I burn through six tons!lol

 

[BrotherBart]

Heck you are still working on the first bag.

 

[Big papa]

Yep so it will be awhile. here to stay.temps are dropping into the mid 30's overnight so going to burn another bag lol.i extended my temp probe today so anxious to see if it works better now