Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove?

RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By Pat (Guest Post) (10/10/2008) This is for Larry B.: You're saying that you put a total of 3 coffee cans in the woodstove with the pellets in the coffee cans? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By Larry B (Guest Post) (08/28/2008) I have been using pellets in an older (TrailBlazer) wood stove. With a little effort, it does work! Here's what I do. Use a small amount of kindling wood,(hand full). Add a piece of StartedLog 1x1" Add pellets, two, 3lb. coffee containers on each side of kindling, one in center. Leave flu open 15 min. Close flu 3/4. This will keep me warm overnight, I add a piece or two of wood if I need to in the morn.. Left in that state without adding pellets or wood will result in complete burn of pellets. Great for, betwween 20 to 40 degree weather!! This result is,without a grate or basket. Try it, it works! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By (Guest Post) (06/21/2008) If you're still out there and wondering how, I've come up with the way to efficiently burn wood pellets in my stove. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By Quinn Smith (Guest Post) (03/20/2008) Your idea of burning wood pellets in a wood stove or fireplace will work, all you have to do is buy a pellet basket for $125.00 off of burnwoodpellets.com I did and it works great! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By Joe M. (Guest Post) (02/15/2008) I designed a special grate for my woodstove (HomeWarmer- similar in shape to a Jotul woodstove) ) which can burn pellets. It's basically a long wide trough made of steel plate with a small grate at the bottom feeding air, and additional air blown over the fire. Pellets burn from front to back when you start a small fire in front. I get about a 1 hour burn from a load of pellets (about 1/4 bag). It's OK for quick heat when it's not cold enough for a full log fire, but maintaining a continuous fire is difficult. Better to use Bio Bricks or Presto logs. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By mick (Guest Post) (12/08/2007) There is a pellett basket sold online, to use in wood burning stoves.It works but to no big advantage over wood. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By Klondike Jim (Guest Post) (09/20/2007) I have a wood furnace with a forced draft fan attached. The idea is to blow more air in to ensure complete combustion, i.e. secondary combustion of the wood exhaust gases. I'm going to give wood pellets a try in my furnace. I'll bet they are better than hardwood on a subzero day. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By Page H (Guest Post) (04/06/2007) I have been doing it for 2 years in combination with the dead wood I cut. It's efficient, easy, makes a fire last longer, burns great, smells great...I have no problems with it in my standard wood stove. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By Dean (Guest Post) (02/10/2006) I have a Finnish fireplace which burns small wood less than 3" dia. but burns extremely hot. I have tried everything in it except plastic and it all works great. One year I tried pellets. They also worked great except for one thing: I put in a fireplace shovelful, closed the fireplace doors, sat down, immediately got up and put another shovelful in. They burn so quickly it was a full time job just feeding the fire. However, they burn hot and have almost no ash. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By Dennis (Guest Post) (09/27/2005) I purchased a CD about pellet stove patents on EBAY. It describes a metal burn pot that could be used in a regular wood stove. I have no experience in it's use or how well it perfoms. just look under PELLET STOVE on EBAY. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By Les (Guest Post) (09/10/2005) Joyann, It won't work, I'm afraid. Pellet stoves are designed with forced air supplying oxygen into the conbustion chamber and an auger feed supplying fuel in just the right volume to get complete combustion of the fuel. If you simply "dumped" a bucket of pellets into a wood stove, you might get the surface to burn, but the resulting ash would insulate the center and starve it for oxygen, and it would simply char. It would be possible to burn them if a fine-mesh grate was put into the stove, and pellets were added just to cover the grate. This would call for frequent feeding, and a lot of back-bending! I'm a retired chimney sweep, and I've seen it tryed. At the price of fossil fuels today, pellet stoves make a lot of sense. But, for the elderly, there is still the lifting of bags and buckets of fuel, and routine shutting down and cleaning the combustion chamber. Consider these in making a decision. Les Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post By wendee (Guest Post) (09/08/2005) Like you, I don't know about pellets but presto-logs are very similar and I know they work well in wood stoves. My aunt and uncle, when they got older, bought a pallet load of presto-logs instead of using firewood. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Burning Wood Pellets in a Non-pellet Stove? Post by PICO (333) | (09/08/2005) Contact Hi, we have a pellet stove. It is the best investment we've made. It has an auger in it so the pellets drop one by one into the grill bellow. The pellets are the size of a pencil eraser. They are designed to burn slowly, we use 1/2 a bag a day in -30 weather. You could burn them in a regular stove, but I think because of the size of the pellets it would burn very fast and you would just be wasting your money. A pellet stove may seem expensive but compared to the price of natural gas it will soon pay for itself. Report Spam or Abuse