Wood Pellets For Sale

Terri Young asked:


A beautiful wood burning fire in your fireplace takes the chill out of the air and provides the perfect atmosphere for a relaxing and enjoyable opportunity to daydream while staring into the fire.

To create a beautiful fire you need to start with quality firewood. The best type of wood to burn is hardwood. Their density allows them to burn cleaner and longer. Some hardwoods include birch, alder, oak, maple, ash and beech. Wood from a fruit tree such as cherry tends to burn with a most pleasant smell.

Your wood should be properly prepared. Finding and storing your logs is important. The best wood to burn has been aged for a year. Unseasoned wood will smolder and not produce the desired amount of heat. Seasoned wood will produce a hot, crackling and efficient fire. A well seasoned log is dark or gray on the outside and when split is white on the inside.

When purchasing wood here are the guidelines on quantity:

- Cord: a stack approximately 4′H X 4′D X 8′L
- Face Cord: 4′H X 8′L and something less than 4′D
- Full-sized pick-up truck tightly stacked to the top of the cab – approximately 1 cord
- Full-sized pick-up truck tightly stacked to the top of the box – 2/3 of a cord
- Small sized pickup stacked to top of the box – 1/3 of a cord

These measurements are only approximate. Pick-up truckloads vary due to the size of the bed and how tightly the wood is packed. A cord could actually take two pick-up loads if not loaded tightly.

Store your wood outside. Purchase a log rack to hold and protect the logs. This allows the air to circulate under the pile. When wood is stacked directly on the ground it will absorb moisture from the ground and the bottom layer will tend to rot. To dry properly it should be kept dry and out of the weather. Once it is dry keep it covered to protect it from the weather. Bring the wood into the house a few days before you build your fire to help removed any remaining moisture.

To build your fire, use plenty of crumpled newspaper and kindling. A great kindling to use is fatwood. It is 100″ natural wood harvested from the stump of softwood, the best wood for kindling. Fatwood is non-toxic, environmentally friendly, easy to use, burns extremely hot and only takes a few sticks to start the fire.

After placing the newspaper and kindling in the fireplace tightly stack at least three pieces or more of wood in your fireplace in a crisscross arrangement. A tightly packed pile of wood burns more slowly. Light your kindling and watch your fire grow. Once the fire is burning there will be times when you will need your fireplace tools to rearrange the logs as they shift and burn down. That’s where your fireplace poker and tongs come in handy. And afterward, once the ashes are cold, cleanup is easily accomplished with your fireplace shovel and brush.

So there you have it. We have covered everything from buying, storing and building your fire. Hope this helps you create a warm and cozy fire in your home.

Wood Pellet Production Guide

tonylopo asked:

This video explains how to build a real Original Rocket Stove, using wood pellets, sawdust, straw, any biomass organic material, well dryed. It also introduces the concept of discardable fuel packs to take anywhere, camping and so on. … wood sawdust rocket stove biomass

Guy J Morris asked:


It is cold out there, out side of your home, and keeping warm is first on your mind. You should think about using your fireplace. A fireplace is a great start to warming the room you are in, even when you don’t have electricity in the rest of the home. A fireplace has many advantages.

You don’t have to think about smoke when you are using your fire place. There are many types of vents, stacks, and methods that are now available so that you can use your fire place without all the smoke you might other wise have in the home. Think clean heat!

We are going to tell you about a few tips that you can use to have cleaner heat, without the worry of smoke in the home so you can enjoy your fireplace more often, and more freely than you have in the past.

Smoke can ruin many things in your home, besides your health. The smoke can ruin the carpeting, the smoke can ruin the drapes, and the smoke can even stain your cupboards or your ceilings as well.

Clean out that chimney if you have one. Every year, or at least every two years you should think about your chimney. Not only is this going to prevent smoke in the home, but it will keep all those ashes going up from catching fire or catching your roof on fire because of build up. Have a chimney sweep come in and check on your chimney.

Check the damper on the chimney. The air flow through the chimney should be adequate to allow the smoke to go out through the chimney. If the damper is closed, the smoke can’t escape the house.

Check what type of lumber, or wood you are using in the fireplace. Wood that is seasoned, that is dry will burn cleaner and with less smoke. This is wood that has been delivered to your home, that has dried over the course of the summer months, not wood that you have just cut with a log splitter.

Don’t burn wood in the fireplace that is treated. Treated wood is going to burn, give off all types of smoke, and it is going to smell really bad because of the chemicals that are in the wood.

If you have drafts in your house, this can cause smoke to go through the home, instead of out and up through the chimney. A door or window left open causing a draft in the wrong direction will cause smoke to enter the home, and ruin things in your home. Check the windows and doors nearest the fireplace to be sure.

Check the fire place for dead animals in the chimney, in the wood you are using, and in the fire place itself. It is hard to tell where mice and squirrels will hide when it gets cold outside, and checking for these little critters can make your fireplace useful, and smokeless at the same time.