Price of wood pellets?

Geo-TH,In · Oct 15, 2021

Last time at Menards wood pellets were were selling for $5/40# $250 a ton.
The price of Ng, LP, electricity is going up.
Do wood pellets cost more as winter approaches?

neverfear · Oct 15, 2021

Follows pretty close per btu. We burn on average 1 bag of pellets or 1 bushel of corn a day for the house for the heating season. I usually figure for 90-100 days with the lp helping out on the coldest days in central MN.

I'm not seeing any advantages this year. Everything is expensive.

Denny K · Oct 15, 2021

Sturgis, SD pellets are $4.30/40# bag at Runnings. Produced in Spearfish, SD.

Bret4207 · Oct 16, 2021

They will cost more as power prices increase. While they are fairly convenient to use, I can't see them as anything but a stop gap OR as a way to use up sawdust/chips/etc. They aren't efficient at all in the big picture.

JWA · Oct 16, 2021

I purchase mine from a semi-local hardwood flooring mill. $200/ton, 50 forty pound bags palletized, shrink wrapped and loaded on my truck.

Geo-TH,In · Oct 16, 2021

Don't know what a local hardwood sawmill sell their scrap for. They chip up all slab
scrap and sawdust and send it to a place that makes pellets.
Seems a solution to any sawmill's problem.
I knew a man when I was a kid that chipped his scrap and sawdust to power boiler he
used to heat his factory and dry lumber in a kiln.
HE had a blower system to automatically send sawdust to boiler fire box.

Sawdust is a good energy source. They even considered sawdust to be green energy.
I think we will be hearing more about it.

I wonder if it would be profitable for a logging company to chip up the branches for
pellets?..

Bret4207 · Oct 16, 2021

(quoted from post at 16:19:26 10/16/21) Don't know what a local hardwood sawmill sell their scrap for. They chip up all slab
scrap and sawdust and send it to a place that makes pellets.
Seems a solution to any sawmill's problem.
I knew a man when I was a kid that chipped his scrap and sawdust to power boiler he
used to heat his factory and dry lumber in a kiln.
HE had a blower system to automatically send sawdust to boiler fire box.

Sawdust is a good energy source. They even considered sawdust to be green energy.
I think we will be hearing more about it.

I wonder if it would be profitable for a logging company to chip up the branches for
pellets?..

George, up here they chip entire trees and blow it into a live bottom trailer. Nothing is left in the woods. It all goes to a co-gen plant on Ft Drum. Pretty much anything but veneer logs go. I heard it takes 75 trailer loads a day to power the plant. Meanwhile, the Amish sawmills give away their saw dust and sell slab wood to people with boilers.

Price of wood pellets?

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