have you ever burned wood pellets in your OWB

[Fourced]

Family Farm and Home had damaged bags of pellets for $.25 and $.50 a bag, so I bought some and have been tossing a 5 gal bucket full on top of the logs when I load it. Seems to burn just fine.

 

[windthrown]

You can burn pretty much anything in those things. I have. Pellets should burn just fine in an OWB.

 

[Fourced]

I know they burn, anything you can get in the door burns.

I just wondered if anyone else tried it.

 

[windthrown]

I burned a bag of them in the OWB once, bag and all. They were gone the next time I opened the door. Anything made of wood and I likely have thrown it into the OWB. OSB strand board, cardboard, paper, furniture, a piano (cut up), 20 types of wood from green to seasoned to rotted out pith, paper bags of sawdust, pellets, junk mail, press-to-logs, wood pulp, and wood shavings from the local mill. All to heat the house.

 

[Marine5068]

I burn pellets to heat my house too, but in our pellet stove.

 

[mohick]

I agree with windthrown anything that will go in the door gets burned in o w b.

 

[unclemoustache]

Well, somebody's got to take one for the team, but for those of you who burn "anything" in your owb, please stop. People who burn trash and other junk give ammo to the anti-burning wackos who pass legislation which gives the EPA more power to shut us all down.

Keep your chimney smoke clear, gents. Don't give the nutbags any excuse to quench our rights.

 

[Oldman47]

Pellets are reputed to be good to help burn down coals that are causing reload problems so I think I would use them that way. I have never even owned a pellet myself,k but at $.25 a bag I might have to.

 

[mbergeon]

Family Farm and Home had damaged bags of pellets for $.25 and $.50 a bag, so I bought some and have been tossing a 5 gal bucket full on top of the logs when I load it. Seems to burn just fine.

My son worked at Family Farm and Home, he brought 4 pallets of pellets home last year, there were a few bags with wet pellets, but for the most part they were fine.

We would throw two bags in on top of a good coal bed,then throw firewood in on top of that. My stove has forced draft, and the pellets seemed to burn great in it.

when you would rake the coals the next day you could tell a lot of the red coals were still burning pellets.

Not sure if it would work as well in a conventional draft stove.

 

[Fourced]

Mine is forced draft, and that is about the same results I have been having.