Posted by Don-Wi on March 05, 2010 at 18:56:02 from (75.222.115.122):
Whats the cost of wood pellets in your area? The house I bought came with a pellet stove, and while I'm not completely impressed with it, the heat is cheaper than the fuel oil furnace in the basement.
Saw an ad in the paper for pellets at $179/ton. Called them up and they said, "no, it's $169/ton." That's by far the best price I've seen. Locally the lowest I've seen was only around $225/ton, otherwise it was closer to $250/ton.
Needless to say, instead of working on the farm today on my day off, I scrambled to get a trailer to pull behind my brother's truck and picked up 4 tons for next year. Should hopefully be enough to get me through next season, paid in full now. Should help lower fuel oil consumption by quite a bit, as this winter it was atleast 150 gal/month, if not 175 or 200 when it got really cold out, at around $2.50-$2.60/gal.
Doing the math, a bag lasts almost a day, and with 50 bags per ton, that's 200 bags. Burning some now to help out in the warmer weather instead of running the furnace, but should work out pretty well.
Place I got them from was in Plymouth, Wisconsin, about 1/4 mile south of Fleet Farm on 57.
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