Your #1 Pellet Ever Used

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I really like Somersets. Good consistent size, heat, and ash. I know this can vary year to year or bag to bag. But then again the only other pellets I have any experience with are the ProPellets and they were good too but seemed more ashy and there were a decent amount of long pellets in each bag. Some well over 2 inches too. Burned a ton of them. Also have burned a ton of Sets thus far so I only have 2 tons experience. LOL! I really would like to get my hands on some soft woods to check out all the rave about them myself. Many burners are straddled by the fact of limited choices too. Basically, Here's what we sell...... Take it or leave it!

+1 for 3 years running now. Only high test weight field corn is better....
 
They've all been much better than my replaced wood stove, so it's all good.


When I was younger and a newlywed, my wife and I owned a home on 20 acres of hardwood in Ohio and we heated exclusively with downed timber from the woods and it was fun, chopping up downed trees, skidding logs, splitting wood and feeding the woodstove, but I was young then. I really liked the bugs that came with the woodpile in the basement, little crawly things, and, cleaning out the ashes and the ever present odor of woodsmoke in the house, it gave the house a 'woodsy' smell.

Fast forward to now. I'm older and I don't want the twice warmed feel anymore (warms you once when you split it and once when you burn it) nor the bugs, nor the 'woodsy smell' in the house so a woodstove isn't an option anymore. I actually own lots more timber now than then but everything downed under 8" gets run through the chipper and over 8 gets cut into manageable lengths, loaded in the front end loader and deposited in a big pile that I roast twice yearly.....outside, unless, of course my neighbor wants some or all, because he's younger and likes to get warmed twice.

Me, I'll pass.
 
Barefoot
 
I've had very good luck last year and this year with Presto Logs, but more recently my nephew in Maryland introduced me to EcoBlaze!! They are FANTASTIC!!! Unfortunately, I cannot get them here in NY, but at $199 a ton it makes a good reason for a trip down to see him :-) Anyone else try these??
 
Hamer's Hot One's, over 5 seasons.
 
Vermont Softies
 
MWP why?

Because I could have run them all winter without doing anything to the stove. And I mean nothing. My stove has a massive ash pan even when its full you can pile up ash on the sides and not cause problems. The heat was just ok they had lots of ash but it went in places that did not cause problems. Ive burned some expensive pellets they were hotter but somewhere in the stove ash or buildup would end up somewhere that it needed to be cleaned eventually.
 
Hamer's
 
TIE:
American Wood Fiber Super Premium White Pine and Starlite
 
Hamers Hamers Hamers. Amazing, hardly any fines at all, burn hot as a motha'.
 
Cubex
 
I am convinced that if this thread runs long enough, every brand of pellet we know will make the list. ;lol

I will feel so bad for the person who lists Green Supreme as their #1 pellet.
 
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Douglas fir, anyones.
 
Surprised no one has said inferno yet.

Interesting; in another topic I just started, got Lignetics just now and the dealer had a 10-bag limit (until I got there) on the Lignetics, but no limit on Infernos. Maybe I cannot draw a conclusion from that?
 
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