How It's Made: Wood Pellets

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[phill]

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.

[TheDeerInn]

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.

[sir_jerhyn]

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

[SeiMoonZz]

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

[phillieseva]

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

[patrickbrowne]

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

[Blamoo]

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

[timokuusela]

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"...

[scotsmanofnewengland]

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.

[miroslavmilosevic]

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

[TJQuirk]

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

[ffff-odjb]

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

[seancolon]

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

[davidarkinian]

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.

[barelyfree]

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

[alexduke]

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

[wagonwheel]

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

[Logarithm]

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

[russchadwell]

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

[d.jensen]

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._