Keep in mind that I've only used it for a couple weeks, that being said, so far so good ru-vid.comUgkxAU9pOCSV9Y5JprooHvfxTpOrt4hx8uRM . Using it at 8 ft. by 8ft. deer blind that is insulated. I have to keep the door cracked for it to get enough air to burn, but that is very likely the wood I've used. Much better quality than I expected for the price. Now if I can just take it easy in the beginning it won't be 90 degrees in my blind. All in all it seems like a keeper.
Tried one of those utensil holders in my stove in my greenhouse, and full it burns for over two hours. I put a couple of cotton balls with vaseline on them at the top and put a few pellets over them and light then. Work great as fire starters.
thanks a lot!! your experiment was exactly what I was trying to find here on youtube! I thought the same as you did about that thing they also sell in Ikea. I have seen one guy doing the same in the biolite cooker in which it goes great because it has forced air flow. I also saw another guy doing the biolite cooker but a much cheaper version with a computer fan. Congrat!!
Good Idea. I use an expanded metal box with dividers to make kind of a snake pattern. It gives me a few hours of time between refills. Just keep an eye on the build up given pellets are intended for high directed air flow units.
Cool. Not sure about using lighter fluid indoors though :-) I have a regular wood stove in the house with soapstone sides/back/top and would like to experiment with pellets. I've heard there is a battery backup -- one of the main reasons for the stove is heat during power outages.
We just throw a load of pellets directly into our coal range. They go nuts, so much so we have got to be careful. Don't use them so much as a primary fuel, more when the weather conditions make the fire sulk and it needs a boost, especially when cooking in the oven. It works because coal burning fires have a grate arrangement, and that gives sufficient air flow for the pellets. Although a base of embers from wood or coal is needed otherwise many will fall straight through into the ash pan.
Place 2 pieces of wood in a v shape, fill the middle with pellets and light each end...no prob. I am sitting in front of a fire now. If you just light the pellets and keep them replenished, then the fire hardly burns the wood. Pour the pellets in the middle from this point on, the fire spreads into the middle
Well this works OK doesn’t throughout the heat like a full blown firewood but it will do in a pinch if you’re needing just a knock the chill off and you don’t want to super hot fire and it’s a cheap supplement in case you run out of firewood just to get you through UPDATE: Solved the heat output issue. Instead of just using one of these I now use 3 of them at the same time placed side by side in the form of a triangle and now it’s like a big real wood burning fire with a fraction of the ash. Nice solution to running out of wood or having wet wood problems
@@HappyCamper1992 I've got both right now and my truck is broken down. I got cold working on it outside in the driveway, it's 12° windchill of -3°. I think I'm going to a used restaurant supply store to buy a deep fryer basket ($20) tomorrow then, buy a bag of pellets.
@@HappyCamper1992 I wish I knew how to send a pic, I'm doing it right Now. It's burning good but I think I need to close the damper more than with log wood. Seems to be producing mega flame. I just turned my furnace down to 63°. We'll see, you'll read. 😁
@@HappyCamper1992 update, not putting out as much heat as I hoped for but.... I noticed some coals built up under the basket. The coals are putting out good heat. I should raise the basket to about 5 " off the floor of the fireplace next time. I think it could build up a nice coal bed and put out the real heat I want.
Tractor supply sells some nice stainless dog bowls for less that $15. for their largest ones. I use them for draining oil in and even esed one as a rain cap on my Ben Franklin Stoves chimmney pipe. Turned a stainless wire office trash bucket upside down and bolted the large dog bowl to the base. Then shoved the flue pip into the upside down waste basket. 2 Screws through the wire mesh and Bob's your Uncle. No more birds making nest in the flue pipe. Going to convert my Ben Franklin Office Stove over to pellets, because I hate having to store small wood pieces that will fit into the little stove. Pellets are the wat to go. That, or may add a propane burner out of a BBQ grill.
I bought one of those steel cutlery baskets. Works great. Only thing is refilling whithout smothering the flame. I might put a plate down the centre and fill one side at a time.
Refilling with low flame or smoldering pellets is always iffy. The new pellets will put the fire out, the smoldering pellets will make the unburned pellets smoke till they light. A trick I learned to refill is get a PRINGLES Potato Chip canister and fill it with pellets, then you can pour it over HALF of your smoldering pellets, once they start up, you can pour more over the other half.
get a second utensil basket cut it up and roll it into a 1 1/4 inch tube and tie wire it into the center of your other basket . light the fire with a fire starter cube in the bottom of the center vent tube .
I have tryed to burn pellets in the wood stove useing containers like you are useing, and they work for a few burns, but the cotainers will start getting brittle and dont hold up long
Two quick questions, what kind of performance do you get, heat wise, from both gadgets you used and what was the pounds per hour burn rate? Thanx and have a Good New Year
My first experience using pellet wood, I took a gallon can that had alcohol, cut the front side out, and placed a stainless screen, then cut the rear side out where I load it. place the stainless side down and elevate one side for air, light from the top, you get an HOUR BURN. As for no heat, Mine fires up to a point of over firing, man it gets hot. Too hot to a point I am trying to find a way to control the burn. also experimenting with trying to use a can to gravity feed the pellets to INCREASE burn time. I also have felt if we control the air access, the burn may be extended. for instance, using a cylinder, like a 4 inch round duct, about 6 inches high, screen the bottom, no holes in the side, light from the top so it has to burn down. air will come up from the bottom forcing the gases up to burn clean. now area of the top will also control the heat created. My can is roughly 9 x 12 inches and it can over fire easily. looking at how the gravity pellet stoves work, they have a specific opening that pellets fall into a screen/grid and burn, as the ash falls more pellets drop and ignite. This is what we want to more or less simulate in our versions only we are doing it by having more fuel than it can burn in the pan. Heat is not a problem but the burn time is short because we can't control the fire.
Been doing the same for years now but- I use old cardboard boxes (Small pop tarts sized boxes, and anything that size) as the pellets burn they also burns the box down till its all ash. this way I don't need to fart with a SS container. Also if you have a hard time starting your fire just spread a hand full or two right on yur ashes to begin - this also helps burn a not so dry piece of wood by keeping the temp up. Pellets are all most devoid of moisture so they burn hot and dry. Caution... using nothing but pellets can melt or warp your stove because of the high heat produced.
2 sgestions. 1 use your original bowl with a foldable steamer rack inside. 2 See (heath Putnam 5.4 build) and make your own version. That will make you smokeless.
I used to dispose of the woodchipper pile into my Aga, on top of about five inches of burning anthracite a bucket of woodchippings burns in about ten minutes...
That was my idea but could only find a colum like that in aluminum. To soft. Is yours stainless?? How dou find it at wall mart? What do they call it? Thanks Dan
I use a large scoop just about every time I add wood to the stove. I make sure to leave some coals near the air intake and pellets right behind them .. sounds like a rocket stove pretty quick and gets the wood cookin .. I've thought about a gravity feed system but as long I have free wood a scoop to boost the fire is all I need.
bought a bag of pellets last year as experiment and find they are good when the logs haveburnt down to bright coals just toss a couple cups in on the coal bed and they too become hot coals in minutes ...can keep that going for quite a while if you keep an eye on her
@@dougiequick1 just piling the pellets on embers will burn fast, even if heaping them on you only get about a hour burn time. You need some kind of gravity feed, prob from a slanted can to up the burn times. That can would most likely be inside your stove so you can only have one smallish opening so there is no air supply to get inside the can preventing the pellets in the can from igniting (theory, am going to try). see the comment above where someone put metal partitions in a container so the burn has to snake around, says he got a couple hours burn. I have been using a PRINGLES potato chip canister to fill with pellets and pour in the wood stove... makes refills easier
Done it bought the tee shirt, the problem is supplying the pellets to the fire, enough to make it last long enough. Due to the amount of heat you will get, is not consistent, a wood or coal stove will give you a consistent heat If you buy a proper pellet burning stove for heating they are great, fantastic, cleaner than wood or coal, only needs venting via an outside wall, little ash, downside you need electricity to run them. If you are living in the countryside i would stick to coal or a wood burning stove.
We have 2 6 quart SS colanders we put in there. We fill one at a time and when that starts to get low, we fill the other one and start it, cycling back and forth.
I stopped using those pellets in my stove because they clog with so much ash. The Green Supreme have about half the ash for the same price. But you got a bargain and you don't have to worry about clogging here AND hardwood in this application is probably preferable so good on you! What is that second perforated cylinder and where'd you get it?
TrainedZombie Ok 👌. Also, instead of drilling through a steel bowl, try using a heavy duty steel colander-restaurant grade. I think that will give you a wide burn area with enough air outlets.
I tried using ss colnder to burn pellets in my wood stove.. dont guess holes were big enough. Just burned black ashes smoldered. Uses hand sanitize to try to start it umm
We made a basket out of 1/4" inch hardware cloth (wire mesh). I don't think it will last more than one season, but its lasted 3mo so far. We use the pellet starter gel to ignite, but once they're going they're self sustaining and plenty of heat. Just an in wall fire place with the wire mesh basket resting on a log rack. Very clean burn and plenty of heat.
@@barrybrum Someone was doing that this year and tractor supply stopped selling all damaged bags. Can nver have a nice things :/ Made it 3 years on $30 a month
That thin metal will burn through after a few fires. I used some rebar to brace up my grate and even that heavy steel was pretzeled after a couple of hot fires.
Please show us or explain how you use the tree cutter chips. How do you dry them out? I just got 50 loads of chips this summer from the power line tree trimmers, but they are 95% green stuff.
Chain saw cabinet shop: I haven’t had much success With the chips the tree cutters make in my wood stove. I got some of them to burn by: 1. putting a bed of them down before starting a fire. 2. Throwing a small amount on top of a robust fire.
You can buy pellet stove gel , but I buy out dated hand sanitizer gel at local hardware or liquidators type stores , get like 6 30 oz bottles for 2.99 and last few years worth . It's just alcohol gel , works great and def cheaper than the pellet gel and it's same shit .
Lol thanks but I am good went to dollar tree n git a few big bottles today..now stopping by Walmart..to get that utensils holder..lol I made 1 from an empty coffee can to test...lol
Cheapest way is newspaper Take one page roll into a ball place small amount of pellets inside do 2-4 if these put them piled together in pellet stove, or pellet container pile some pellets on type and light. Works great and free. Can also add kindling or even use with kindling instead of pellets to light a wood stove.
The pyro in me is screaming to use kerosene or diesel instead of "charcoal lighter fluid" because that crap is barely flammable. A little kerosene and she will light right up. Of course, the rational side of me questions how safe using kerosene or diesel inside of a wood stove as an accelerant would be for someone who may or may not be as experienced with fire as I am.
Dude...how frequently are you planning on adding pellets to your fire ? Even IF you get this to work, pellets burn almost instantly when airflow is Introduced to them...soooooo...if you’re going to go through all that, why not just spend $800 at tractor supply and actually get a pellet stove ?!
So it does work with dry wood chips, I put the wood chips in a ziplock bag and added about 2 ounces of diesel & e85 mixed and let them soak a little and use that as the fire starter and pour chips on top in a metal colander I found at goodwill. Pretty much free heat for me! Oh and the diesel and e85 is one hell of a fire starter 😀🔥🔥🔥
We burn wood pellets, corn, nutshells, and all manner of woody organic waste from The Homestead in the woodstove AND produce a metric shit-ton of bio-char for the garden beds... I do mine in an old antique metal popcorn tin that holds about 2 gallons - I imagine anything manufactured today is too thin to handle long-term at high temps ... ... anyway : it's more of a gasification thing. A normal log fire heats up whats inside until it off-gasses flamables. Those gasses then fuel the fire. I'm left with the charcoal (charred carbon remains). It cut our actual log/wood usage damned near in half and it's nice to know I could easily grow a fuel source as a summer annual (corn). Very similar to what you see this guy doin. Really the only difference is the recepticle he uses as opposed to what I'm using: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C066C2qsd0A.html
Not the best stove to burn them on.. I sometimes use them on my stove with back boiler. Get room heat and 2 baths out of a 2-3 gallon bucket Pellets just burn too hot...
Not an efficient way to burn wood pellets. They need more air flow to get the best heat out of them. Add some sort of forced draft so it blows air directly on the pellet fire. Or buy a pellet stove.
That's all fine and great but how often do you have to keep refilling it? I would not want to be refilling the stove every 10 minutes or more often than that! Seems a little ridiculous, just get a pellet stove!
If you don't mind waiting several days $2.50 on eBay coming from China ....which is where they ALL come from anyway so why pay Walmart several dollars to get it for you??
It depends, but generally they are from a bit to moderately more expensive. However, there are some pluses. Per same weight they burn longer, hotter, and more completely (under the right conditions). The latter is because they are drier than most wood. A lot of people burn wood that is not properly or ideally cured--there is a lot of water left and that makes a cooler burn and creates more creosote.
All that work... You will continue to refill it every 10/30 Minutes.... Might as well buy Wood and keep it for Hours and be productive and do more productive things.
Bad quality pellets, if they don't burn in a stove with woods. I'm not surprised you got them cheap. If ask me, this is a very ineffective and expensive idea. Or maybe you're right. Barrel stove is not permanently glowing. Good idea to save your house from burning to the ground.
Anything that burns coal should burn pellets. Pellets are not much different from pete or lignite. You could put a steel screen on the stove grate to hold the pellets and burn them directly. Dump them in an uunventillated heap and they will just smolder.
