How It's Made: Wood Pellets 

I've been watching these ever since I was a kid, very entertaining for me.

I have a diesel powered pellet maker and can make all the pellets I need in one Summer to heat my home in the Winter for several years. Of course when we first started using our pellet stove the pellet prices where we live were quite expensive and it was cheaper to use Natural Gas. I get all the saw dust I could ever need for free from one of our local cabinet shops, no grinding needed. I just make sure the moisture content is at 12% and I can make around 400 lbs of pellets an hour.

I do love me my Pellet Stove and the relaxing 'tinking' noise it makes, as the auger drops pellets into the Burnpot. Very soothing and cathartic.

I work as a plant operator at a wood pellet factory its very intresesting seeing other factorys production process . Its the same yet so different . We also use woodpowder as fuel for our drying process . We use pine and spruce sawdust as rawmaterial but we also use wood shavings that we add in later in the process after the sawdust is dryed

loved how they censored the brand name in 4:38 and showed it 5 seconds later

Watching these videos is literally the only source of happiness for me right now.

I worked in a pellet plant for a year it was awesome, the owners were awesome and I learned all aspects of the process

Love these wood pellets for cat litter!

Also makes very good cat litter, bunny litter, etc...

Now my steam powered vehicle is going to have a modified wood pellet stove burner!!

Haha they tried to censor the company name and number during bagging but the next scene you can clearly see PWPELLETS and the phone number

Automation is a beautiful thing

in Serbia its made of compressed cash assuming from the price.

Ahh crap...now I'm down the how it's made rabbit hole again.

I haul pine pellets for DraxBioMass that are used to fuel power plants. Cool to see how they're made

nice to know. i've carried nearly a ton of this stuff for my grandparent's house after all.

Now there is a press from Saalasti Finland that can press the extra moisture off from the material before it goes to the energy consuming dryer making it vastly more efficient and even improving plant capasity. It also reduces the energy consumption and wear of the hammermills by breaking the bigger particles in a right manner. As one user agreed "it is the closest thing to printing money"...

Pellet stove is the best home investment ive made. No longer use Boiler/oil to heat my house

how it's made version of this is going to be lit

“Made from a variety of products, wood, wood and more wood!”

Wood pellets cost significantly less than other fuels....until the demand for pellets goes up. Then so will the price.

These are great for cat litter. 40 lbs of wood pellets for $5.99 over 35 lbs of clay litter for $26. Also, no clumpy nasty clay litter stuck to the bottom of the pan, just wipe the wet sawdust clean with a dry paper towel.

thank you algorithm, this is exactly what i need right now.

I work at a pellet mill and I will say this it’s way more complicated than they think and way more dangerous too

In Croatia pellet price went 200% up in a year. Wood waste for gods sake! Whatever cheap way of heating we find, it automatically goes up 100%, and therefore unprofitable.

I have had a pellet stove for 18 years now and use it for supplement heat. The main thing is doing the annual maintenance on the stove and the cleaning of the burn chamber when using it for a few days. One thing I don’t like is the big increase in the price of the pellets. Supply and demand but there seems to be more pellet making plants near in New England.

Will there ever be new seasons? I have been watching this religiously for many many years.

I'm done with my wood stove just got a pellet stove love it no more splinters the maintenance of the stone isn't too bad even annually. Got a generator backup for grid power loss.

Our SCAN Andersen 10 burns very cleanly and its fuel comes directly from our land. Still, I'd love to burn pellets if I could get them cheaply enough. But it's hard to compete with _free._

Wow! I never knew this existed in the world.... Alot of strange new stuff has been popping up on my feed... kinda cool

We use these for our rabbit litter and work great!

Corporations: "people are burning lots of wood for FREE... how can WE profit off of that?"

Cant live without knowing this

Yuuusss Brooks the best narrator!

One of those places I saw on fire. That thing outside that turns was so black from the fire. I can't imagine the safety standards they need to follow now with the heatwave we've been having this summer.

I actually think this is a great way of recycling wood.

I love science

That was cool to see

OH SHIT THEY STILL DOING THIS????? HELL YEAH!!!!!!

Brooks Moore was the best narrator ever for this show!!

I use hickory and cherry wood pellets to smoke my grill. It's great to grill steaks with.

I am rock hard right now!! 👍😊👍

I remember seeing one of those pellets as I loaded it into my pellet heater hopper, coincidental...

There is enough wood wasted at logging sights in Maine alone to supply most of America!

Funny timing as wood pellets are crazy expensive and almost impossible to buy these days..

i had to work at a wood pellet mill before and oh man did it not look as clean as this. the place was basically two "hangar tents" with all the machinery operating inside it, no insulation to keep us warm so we had to work with heavy coats. We had an operator and two baggers that basically bagged and stacked the finished pellets. sawdust piling up in the corners, machinery held together by duct tape and hope, on a freezing wet day you had to go pound on the side of the bin that feeds the wood chips into the grinder with a sledgehammer to knock the material lose, i had to put out a small fire in the corner by the "office" once, eventually started getting shorted on hours because of critical machine malfunctions eventually had to quit and move out cause there was literally NOTHING close enough to work at. Awful, horrible job that also damaged my body having to work at. but apparently the company decided to keep it running as is instead of upgrading the equipment or shutting it down for a while despite having other facilities that were run to a much higher standard and much less dangerously and this one not having as good of an output. And because it was operating in a dead end small mountain town they could get away with letting sawdust float over the town when we inevitably got a strong wind blowing through the valley.

I remember working and selling pallets of wood pellets at 2 bucks a bag, when I left that company in 2014 they went up to 5.50 a bag .. almost tripled in a couple years.. I don’t know how much they cost today in 2022

Pellet power!

I used to use these for all my rabbits, Its time to get a bag of this for my cats tray.

It's a good think they blurred out PW pellets.

Fuel pellets , well when I buy them they are called cat litter in the UK lol

Love my pellet stoves… wouldn’t go back…. Love Summerset’s make in the USA pellets !

I find it interesting that in America there are very few compressed wood options. Wood pellets are an emerging industry in America. America has 6mm pellets, the industrial/rare 8mm pellets, and the even more rare 10mm pellets, and America also has bio-bricks. Other places have more options for compressed wood. I saw a wood compressor that made 20mm cubes of pressed wood. I want to get my hands on a bag or two of those cubes because they look interesting. I also am a bit upset that there are few pellets that use a bit of oil in the mix. Oil in wood pellets can act as a sealing agent against water, and increase the energy density ... BUT it is an extra expense so many don't bother.

Its a shame the stoves arent really repairable. Its hard to find controller boards and sensors and tgey clog and break easily.

How much POWER does the factory USE to create compressed wood crap they con you into???????

Scent type if make this way to burn then become aromatheraphy? As long as coalfire touch = will burn until ash anyway right?

And all you need to do is add hot water and BAM! You have Taco Bell Refried Beans!!!!

No joke. So interesting to me I fall a sleep immediately

I am working in waste management facility. And we have around 20 thousand wood waste, which we turning into the wood chips, so any suggestions where we can sell it?

At least I know why the pallet of pellets that I bought from Lowes had so much dust in them!

My recently purchased pellet stove has already save a bunch of money I would normally be spending on propane which is stupid expensive

We do not have these in Australia. I find it very interesting - looks expensive

Nice

There are 2 properties around my area that are running on WOOD, 1 is a commercial store and when that fires up and runs esp on fireing up there’s dark smoke pouring out of the flue. So as for the stuff doesn’t smoke, .. I don’t think so

started burning pellets in early 2000. they were 2 bucks a bag and 1.65 if you bought by the ton. in 2024 im paying 7 bucks a bag.

3:40 I'm like 99% sure lignin =/= tree sap. Lignin is the "bulk" of the trees structure / physical material. Sap is basically tree food - nutrients that gets produced by sap wood and moved to the branches to help produce new branches and leaves. I think this sentence should be "The compression generates heat which draws out the tree sap still contain in the wood fiber made mostly of lignin. Once the sap cools it helps the wood pellets keep their shape" or something like that.

If the prices keep going up and up, like they been, then I won't be buying anymore.

Wood pellet smokers are great.

oh! so the wood is broken up and laminated back together!! its like cross laminating but without the cross cuts. you just smoosh it together, but in this case, its smooshed together with other things so it stays intact and can burn!! i love learning abt wood processes :]

Wood pellets are a good way to use energy but the amount of processing and transportation costs is still not as clean as just burning wood. Everyone’s area is different. In most states it’s free or cheap permit to cut dead trees on state and federal land And the only costs is gas running a chainsaw. Wood pellets require gas to run a chainsaw plus all these machines to dry it. Compress it and transport it Way more costs

whoa

can you use wood pellets in a normal wood burning appliance though?

I work in a pellet plant. I’m almost always drunk on the job. Hahahaha 😂

This has a 1995 video vibe.

man,i have in my town ,a big pellet factory ,10 m from my house,it makes such large noise,the factory itself and the machines,trucks etc. and the dust and dirt it generates, it like Chernobyl vol.2, currently we are suing the town and the plant,

A lot of energy...😱

Grass greener on the other side of the fence? Last year a neighbor replaced his firewood stove w/a pellet stove & I suggested he keep his traditional wood stove ... he was glad he did. Pellet stoves are pretty to look at; easier on the home owner's insurance $; but not BTU or cost effective; & when electricity goes out so does the pellet stove ... and so does a secondary cook top.

NO Smoking within 5 miles of that refinery🤣

WOOD PELLETS ARE A WASTE BY-PRODUCT, NO TREES ARE HARMED.

REMINDS ME OF THE KINGSBORO GRILL FOR COAL B RICKS

Id like to see how it’s Actually Made

So green

It's just a giant pasta maker for wood!

My chinchilla ate hay pellets, I wonder if they're made the same way

Orang yang gagal akan nampak kesusahan pada setiap peluang, manakala orang yang optimis akan nampak peluang dalam setiap kesusahan

What are the binding substances used for a proper structure of the pellet..

PELITS FOR FERTILIZER /ELECTRIC TO HYYDRTOGEN FUEL FROM WATER

Never heard pellets warming the house

Forget battery cars, pellet power!

Think of a different dimension steam locomotives were powered by this

Large Biomass plants for electricity and heat to sell to on the open market can be horrible for the environment. Thousands of acres of hardwood trees in the southern and south east US are clearcut to make wood pellets that get shipped to Europe.

Make a video on how MTBs are made

A nice healthy snack for the kids.

Avísenle a la empresa que imprime las bolsas, que se escribe APROBADA, y no aproVada. Saludos cordiales.

Greenway hardwood pellets is the best

seems like it requires a lot of energy input to get pellets. seems like the net energy consumption just wouldn't be efficient compared to burning firewod.

Are some brands of pellets better than others? Is so and I assume so how would I know?

I never knew about a wood pellet stove. The only wood pellets I knew was a type of cat litter.

Pellets are not cheap anymore . In Portugal last year 3.79 per 15kg now 8.99. 15kg . So very expensive

And grills too.