Another good one. MAJOR WARNING: Be careful loading pellets onto coals (no flame). I had a situation in my woodstove-to-pellet conversion whereas I loaded about 3 pounds of pellets on a bed of pellet coals (thinking eventually the fresh pellets would catch fire from the coals). What happened was as the fresh pellets heated up, they gave off extremely flammable gas. When they heated up to the flash-point (point of ignition) the gasses caused a major explosion in the stove. Blew the door wide open, and blew the cap off of my stovepie, which landed halfway across the yard. So, when coals are present load a small amount of pellets until a flame is present before loading up on pellets (so gasses won't build up). Wyoming here-been 20 below overnights with 30 below predicted for Wednesday night. Thank you
Oh yeah this happened to me also. Not to the extent of yours but it was enough to scare the living shit out of me. I was standing right next to it when it happened.
With a pellet grill I learned that when you start it up leave the lid open until the pellets flame. Exact thing happens. Gasses build up and explode flinging the grill lid open.
Great Vid. I have been burning Pellets basically because of the lack of wood supply around me. Heres a HINT when you need to put more pellets on the fire or embers, USE a Pringles Potato Chip can. Fill it up with Pellets then you can direct where you want them. When you have just embers, put the pellets on one side of the embers, wait till they light off then put more pellets on the other side. Much easier than trying to put pellets where you want them with a scoop. You are right, the pellets burn too hot if you let them get a lot of air. You need a container that restricts the air flow into the burning pellets to control heat, and this will increase the burn time.
We live in southern Oregon, on the coast. The average low is around 38-40. We’ve been using a wood stove as our only source of heat. This video allows us to transfer to using pellets and keep our wood stove!! Thank you for sharing.
Great video Jim and it was very enlightening. I have a wood stove insert in my fireplace and it is a treasure, but I'm a bit older now and have a few health issues which makes hauling wood to second story floor a bit taxing for me. Knowing that wood pellets are an option to use means everything to me. Thanx for putting this video together and you have a new sub. today!
Hey Jim!Great video! I'm in Montana and it's in the negatives right now (-33), which is pretty much the norm for this time of year. I switch to a pellet stove 5 years ago because the cost of wood and the labor to stack and dry then bring it in wasn't worth doing. Plus my kids are all grown and out of the house now. Pellets are really nice to have and stove works great but I really love the amount of heat the wood stove put out. After seeing your video, I may keep an eye out for another wood stove just in case the pellet stove decides to die. This video answered all my questions because I honestly didn't think of burning pellets instead of cord wood. New sub from me. Much thanks!!
Jim, thanks for a in depth demo of burning pellets in a wood stove. I have just converted from a pellet stove to a wood stove. Have a lot of bags left over that I was going to sell with the pellet stove. Maybe not now. Thanks again.
I do this sometimes, I bought a small stainless steel vegetable, barbeque basket off amazon, I place this upside down in the stove then pile the wood pellets on top. The basket allows for good airflow under the pellets and they burn great, easier to clean out too, I tried the steel bars first. But I find this way works well for me.
Hi Jim, we have a Vermont Castings Montpelier in a fireplace with a very tall chimney. We live in a cool wet rainforest southeast of Eugene, Oregon. I’ve been toying with the idea of pellets in the stove, but I want to work out the kinks of air flow under the pellets and delivery of the pellets to avoid explosions and sparks; your video helped me in thinking this through. Thanks!
I am from Pennsylvania as well. I believe you are right with temperatures. Now this weekend here in north central Pa the temp's are supposed to be single digits.
Watching from Ontario Canada, I have a pellet stove in the shop and love it. On level 3 of 5 levels on the feed auger and stirring rake on 1st of 4 speeds I get 15 -16 hrs burn time. Ohh yeah I really enjoy sittn there having afew beers and I live in the front of the shop 👍. We're freezing nightly here but days still around freezing in the sun . In the coldest of winter I can keep a 50x30 ft block building 50-55 deg burning on medium . I have a 90,000 BTU gas furnace that does my living area and I can re-zone alot of it into the shop when we're -30 below
For my guy that made the video if you want to have an even more efficient burn with your pellets in your woodstove, I highly recommend getting the catalytic catalyst that you can put in your chimney just above the wood stove and below the damper so that you can keep the heat in the woodstove more and burn more clear out your chimney, but I highly recommend burning pellets in your wood stove because they burn more efficient and clean as well as their easier to store enough 40 pound bags of pellets to last a whole winter season than it is to store enough seasoned wood to last through the winter at least on my Homestead. It is specially with how often we get -40° weather.
A THOUGHT I have been trying to burn the pellets in a wood stove, and my results are somewhat similar to what you are experiencing. We know how the pellet stove works. It feeds limited amounts of pellets over a good amount of time to make heat. Our versions are just a mass of pellets plopped in the stove and it is not a controlled burn, basically a wild fire until they are exhausted. I am toying with the idea of a Rocket Stove, built sort of along the lines of Slim Potatoheads version which can have a gravity feed. The difference is the stove would fit INSIDE the wood stove burner area. The top of the gas exhaust would have a cap with space for the fire to blast out horizontally. The pellet hopper also inside the stove. the supply hopper would have a cover so no oxygen gets in to the supply pellets and won't burn. The screen in the air intake shaft at the bottom of the supply hopper, limits the amount of pellets burnt. yadda yadda yadda. Slim Potatoheads pellet burning stove on yTube search A Wood Stove for Camping: Part 1
Brother that was one fantastic video, I am so glad you ran this one through, what a great idea generator. I have both also. Last year I did not have wood for my furnace, and the feed on my pellet stove stopped working, I reverted to keeping the body plenty warm and zoned heating, little cheepo philipo 6" heaters with thermostats, bought 8 @ $25 my avg hydro bill was $160, This year still no wood because the government was handing out mini splits, I received 4 of them at their cost of about $30,000, first month was I thought high at about $400 so I toned down, operated 3 @ 61 degrees @ a combined time of 30 hrs. between them, this months hydro bill $500...so disappointing. This was a couple of days ago, I went online got some ideas on how to rejuvenate my old furnace, got it working, so cool. still no wood but lots of pellets, today I am going to build a cage that I can slide through a 14" door on rails which will rest on a fire starter in the furnace, I an going to take your system and drop a couple more rows up the 14" cage. This video made my day, your the man
The gloves are military - used and seen many. Western Maryland here - mid 20's to low 30's is average in the winter. Some teens and occasionally 0 or below. Thanks for the breakdown on how much you put in and your times. I'm looking at pellets for my wood burning fireplace insert. Don't want to spend a fortune on a ready-made basket.. Thanks for the bracket ideas.
I really like your ingenuity! I have been using a castle pellet stove for a couple years now and it's been great. But the power outages have me working towards keeping my generator tuned up. This a great experiment friend! Thanks for sharing your experience! Just be safe playing with fire you don't wanna wet the bed!
Central Arizona here, we have a woodstove but honestly it rarely gets cold long enough to use it. Nice to have for an extended winter power outage but unless it's cloudy all day, which is a rare occurrence, our house warms up nicely on its own during the day and even last winter when our heater was out for a couple of weeks, it didn't get cold enough in the house to fire up the stove. Even when it got down in the teens at night, the house would only be about 55 by sunrise and then within a couple of hours it was up to about 65 inside. The woodstove would've run us out of the house. As much as I like the ambience of watching a fire in a fireplace or stove, ours is strictly for emergency heat.
Middle of New Hampshire it can go to -20 F. An average in Feb. is probably around 0 F. I was late to look for cord wood this year. I am looking to burn pellets in the wood stove. I don't know if the angle irons are needed. It seems like the pellets burn from the top down. Opposite from wood. So as long as the dampers are open correctly, It should burn. The problem is adding more pellets without smothering the burning ones. It will be trial and error I guess.
This is actually a great hack to get a large coal base in your stove quickly. Start an overkill kindling fire. Once it’s raging through in a shit load of pellets. Then once it’s all coal stuff it full of oak or madrone and hamper that B down.
The P68 is definitely more efficient also. Just experimenting burning in my wood stove. Some people want to know how to burn in their wood stoves. Thanks for watching
I use pellets in my furnace about a bag a day on weekends. Up here in North Dakota winters get to minus 30, and can stay below zero for weeks. Some much easier then cord wood
Greetings from New Hampshire, our Jan/Feb temps are typically single digits overnight and 25-35F during the day, give or take. I’m watching this wondering why I’ve never tried it before. Seems a bit like those kiln dried blocks that burn real hot and real fast so you’ve got to keep an eye on them but could still be a good way to stretch out the wood supply. Think I’ll give the pellets a try!
Hi Jim were gonna have pretty mild temps like in the 50's during the day and the 40's at night here in South Jersey. It looks like the Pellets produce a hotter more rapid fire than cordwood but it won't complete replace a long, steady and consistent heat like logs. Especially when you have to burn more than 2 bags a day, but it could be great to save some firewood once in a blue moon. Based off what I read you can but can't burn them in a wood stove. Yes in that they burn very clean and hot but no in the sense that if you're stove is getting up to like over 600 to 700 degrees it could crack or damage it.
This is good if you are in a pinch for sure but they sell conversion kits for wood stoves for gravity-fed pallets that will last much longer I'm just pouring a bunch of pellets into an ammo can with holes
Lol just a good excuse to sit in the garage and burn stuff and drink. Great video jim. Im im in south central pa. Currently have a propane harman stove. Trying to convert it to wood or pellet. Not quite sure how tho?
Sullivan county Pa here. I purchased a used central boiler outside pellet boiler. I just got a ton a of hallmark pellets from Cole’s have you tried them?
you might have solved a serious problem for me. i live in Maine near the Canadian border. it gets maybe worst -65 F on a cold morning. BUT your average small tent stove burning away and some SERIOUSLY good insulation will take care of it. anyway i have to heat about 200 square feet of open space and i might not have enough dry firewood. i also HATE getting up at two in the morning to load a very cold stove and light it up again. (the cold always wakes me up, no prob.) so i would like the opportunity to sleep ALL night nice and cozy. THIS pellet idea would work with my possible purchase of a Tractor Supply Forester which already should burn all night with wood. BUT my wood might not be dry for some reason and I have plans to collect bags of pellets for such an emergency. Now I know (because of your experiment) I can do the same thing for a 200 sq ft. shed with one load of pellets. Ten pounds should burn all night, no cold. No reload. as per your experiment!! So a Forester would work nicely for that shed. It has a 4' peaked loft and I think it should heat that okay too. You see I have 1/5th the space to heat that you do in your 1,000 sq ft garage.
I think that this is a great idea if you have leftover pellets. But it looks like it Costs $5 an hour to run on Pellets. If there is any way to get logs, I would never burn pellets. I once had extra pellets and so I burned them on my Kamado Joe BBQ. Yes it burned but it would never be my first choice ti burn a manufactured product since it costs more, unless it was necessary. I would however perhaps use the Pellets to get the Logs Burning.
Can you tell me the made up basket things to hold the pellets are called so I can get it at Home Depot? Also, what brand of pellets do you recommend that it’s easy to burn and last a long time? Single mom, NJ
Also, in the video you adjusted the key to the “smoke stack”, to open and close it.excuse me if I don’t know what it’s called. But why did you need to that?
You could theoretically just insert a rotary pellet burner that does all of this automatically, just need cut a hole in the side or front to accomodate it :D
@@DIYJIM th-cam.com/video/aVg3xdunoTI/w-d-xo.html Something like this. There's a bunch of models. Has automatic everything. The rotary mechanism is just there to clean off the slag that can be left after burning low quality pellets.
Hi. I live in centre about 70 miles south east of Rome Italy uder the mountains ( Sora ) coldest months Jan.with temp,in the high 20 at night.30 during the day. I use a ventilated insert to warm up a 1200 sq.feet Apt. I use about 40/50 Los of wood daily on the coldest months (Jan)
Comfortbilt hp50s pellet stove keeps my house 75 when it's a steady 10° outside. Burns about 40lbs every day and a half. House is about 1500sq ft, so not big.
I shoulda have watched this before buying an expensive wood pellet basket burner. Pellets burn cleaner, less smoke vs. regular wood fuel. Awesome worthwhile DIY 🙌
Can anyone help me..I want to do this in my mom's pot belly stove. Wood is getting expensive and she refuses to get her electric fixed. 😢I was thinking of get a cast iron burning pot and just filling it up. I'm at lowes now. Lol Help! Then I seen you just placed some metal angles inside the base of yours. I think your idea would work great. Let me know if it's doable.
I can not say I would have to see it in person. Make sure the exhaust chimney is clean. I would still think wood would be cheaper. Guess it depends where you live.
@@DIYJIM Well wood is cheaper. However, my wood guy ran out, and my alternative ran out too. So, this would be a backup option. We are in the MD DC area. Lately 37 degrees.
Is the "#40 bag, 7-8 hours" supposed to be boasting or you thinking that's efficient? A 40 pound bag in my pellet stove I can make last almost 2 days. About 40 hours. I'm in the PNW(pacific northwest)it's been dipping into the high teens to low 20's here at night for the past month or so. 40 pounds at those temps lasts 30-36 hours.
I sure would like to have a woodstove in my shop, but there's no insurance company that will cover it. Must been too many gas fumes or oil fires so the insurance companies decided not to cover wood heat in a shop anymore. I have to go sit my patio if I want to enjoy a fire.
Burning a 40# bag of pellets every 8 hours would be $21 a day (40# bag of pellets is $6.70 here at TSC) That's $651 a month! My regular cheap wood stove will burn 8 hours easily on 1 load of red oak..That I cut off my property here in Tenn.
@@DIYJIMany wood stove shop or hardware should sell them .A company called Even Ember's is one. Also look up pellet rocket stoves here on TH-cam and you can get ideas on taking and old wood stove and converting it to pellet.
I've been doing this for years. I used to use a homemade steel basket but a cheap pellet smoking basket from the store works every bit as well. A heaped up load of pellets goes around 5-10 pounds and will go for about 2-3 hours. And +1 on hand sanitizer. Lord knows we have enough of the stuff left over, gotta use it for something. Dump a half-cup on the front of the pellet heap and light it off, no worries.
Kind of agree, I Was just doing this to show how to burn. If my electricity would go off for a couple days my pellet stove will not work unless I have a generator. So it was just an experiment and I thought others would like to know how to burn pellets. Thanks for watching
Another good one. MAJOR WARNING: Be careful loading pellets onto coals (no flame). I had a situation in my woodstove-to-pellet conversion whereas I loaded about 3 pounds of pellets on a bed of pellet coals (thinking eventually the fresh pellets would catch fire from the coals). What happened was as the fresh pellets heated up, they gave off extremely flammable gas. When they heated up to the flash-point (point of ignition) the gasses caused a major explosion in the stove. Blew the door wide open, and blew the cap off of my stovepie, which landed halfway across the yard. So, when coals are present load a small amount of pellets until a flame is present before loading up on pellets (so gasses won't build up). Wyoming here-been 20 below overnights with 30 below predicted for Wednesday night. Thank you
I’ll have to be careful never heard that happening. Sounds like you better keep your fire going. thanks for watching
Oh yeah this happened to me also. Not to the extent of yours but it was enough to scare the living shit out of me. I was standing right next to it when it happened.
With a pellet grill I learned that when you start it up leave the lid open until the pellets flame. Exact thing happens. Gasses build up and explode flinging the grill lid open.
@@kramerranch5044 Good to know; thank you
Yup...as long as pellets are burning, keep it fed. Would have been great to see this warning before I scorched my floors!
Great Vid.
I have been burning Pellets basically because of the lack of wood supply around me.
Heres a HINT
when you need to put more pellets on the fire or embers, USE a Pringles Potato Chip can.
Fill it up with Pellets then you can direct where you want them.
When you have just embers, put the pellets on one side of the embers, wait till they light off then put more pellets on
the other side.
Much easier than trying to put pellets where you want them with a scoop.
You are right, the pellets burn too hot if you let them get a lot of air.
You need a container that restricts the air flow into the burning pellets to control heat, and this will increase the burn time.
Thanks again
We live in southern Oregon, on the coast. The average low is around 38-40. We’ve been using a wood stove as our only source of heat. This video allows us to transfer to using pellets and keep our wood stove!! Thank you for sharing.
thanks for watching, I would love to come visit Oregon someday.
Great video Jim and it was very enlightening. I have a wood stove insert in my fireplace and it is a treasure, but I'm a bit older now and have a few health issues which makes hauling wood to second story floor a bit taxing for me. Knowing that wood pellets are an option to use means everything to me. Thanx for putting this video together and you have a new sub. today!
Awesome thanks for subscribing and thanks for watching. Hope you’re having a good day
Hey Jim!Great video! I'm in Montana and it's in the negatives right now (-33), which is pretty much the norm for this time of year. I switch to a pellet stove 5 years ago because the cost of wood and the labor to stack and dry then bring it in wasn't worth doing. Plus my kids are all grown and out of the house now. Pellets are really nice to have and stove works great but I really love the amount of heat the wood stove put out. After seeing your video, I may keep an eye out for another wood stove just in case the pellet stove decides to die. This video answered all my questions because I honestly didn't think of burning pellets instead of cord wood. New sub from me. Much thanks!!
Thank you very much for subscribing
Jim, thanks for a in depth demo of burning pellets in a wood stove. I have just converted from a pellet stove to a wood stove. Have a lot of bags left over that I was going to sell with the pellet stove. Maybe not now. Thanks again.
Welcome thanks for watching
I do this sometimes, I bought a small stainless steel vegetable, barbeque basket off amazon, I place this upside down in the stove then pile the wood pellets on top. The basket allows for good airflow under the pellets and they burn great, easier to clean out too, I tried the steel bars first. But I find this way works well for me.
Good idea thanks for watching
Hi Jim, we have a Vermont Castings Montpelier in a fireplace with a very tall chimney. We live in a cool wet rainforest southeast of Eugene, Oregon. I’ve been toying with the idea of pellets in the stove, but I want to work out the kinks of air flow under the pellets and delivery of the pellets to avoid explosions and sparks; your video helped me in thinking this through. Thanks!
Glad my video helped, thanks for watching
I am from Pennsylvania as well. I believe you are right with temperatures. Now this weekend here in north central Pa the temp's are supposed to be single digits.
It is defiantly going to be cold Thanks for watching
Watching from Ontario Canada, I have a pellet stove in the shop and love it. On level 3 of 5 levels on the feed auger and stirring rake on 1st of 4 speeds I get 15 -16 hrs burn time. Ohh yeah I really enjoy sittn there having afew beers and I live in the front of the shop 👍. We're freezing nightly here but days still around freezing in the sun . In the coldest of winter I can keep a 50x30 ft block building 50-55 deg burning on medium . I have a 90,000 BTU gas furnace that does my living area and I can re-zone alot of it into the shop when we're -30 below
Sounds like you have a nice set up. Thanks for watching
For my guy that made the video if you want to have an even more efficient burn with your pellets in your woodstove, I highly recommend getting the catalytic catalyst that you can put in your chimney just above the wood stove and below the damper so that you can keep the heat in the woodstove more and burn more clear out your chimney, but I highly recommend burning pellets in your wood stove because they burn more efficient and clean as well as their easier to store enough 40 pound bags of pellets to last a whole winter season than it is to store enough seasoned wood to last through the winter at least on my Homestead. It is specially with how often we get -40° weather.
Thanks for the advice and thanks for watching
A THOUGHT
I have been trying to burn the pellets in a wood stove, and my results are somewhat similar to what you are experiencing.
We know how the pellet stove works. It feeds limited amounts of pellets over a good amount of time to make heat.
Our versions are just a mass of pellets plopped in the stove and it is not a controlled burn, basically a wild fire until they are exhausted.
I am toying with the idea of a Rocket Stove, built sort of along the lines of Slim Potatoheads version which can have a gravity feed.
The difference is the stove would fit INSIDE the wood stove burner area. The top of the gas exhaust would have a cap with space for the fire to blast out horizontally. The pellet hopper also inside the stove.
the supply hopper would have a cover so no oxygen gets in to the supply pellets and won't burn.
The screen in the air intake shaft at the bottom of the supply hopper, limits the amount of pellets burnt. yadda yadda yadda.
Slim Potatoheads pellet burning stove
on yTube search
A Wood Stove for Camping: Part 1
I might have to check this out. Thanks for watching
Brother that was one fantastic video, I am so glad you ran this one through, what a great idea generator. I have both also. Last year I did not have wood for my furnace, and the feed on my pellet stove stopped working, I reverted to keeping the body plenty warm and zoned heating, little cheepo philipo 6" heaters with thermostats, bought 8 @ $25 my avg hydro bill was $160, This year still no wood because the government was handing out mini splits, I received 4 of them at their cost of about $30,000, first month was I thought high at about $400 so I toned down, operated 3 @ 61 degrees @ a combined time of 30 hrs. between them, this months hydro bill $500...so disappointing. This was a couple of days ago, I went online got some ideas on how to rejuvenate my old furnace, got it working, so cool. still no wood but lots of pellets, today I am going to build a cage that I can slide through a 14" door on rails which will rest on a fire starter in the furnace, I an going to take your system and drop a couple more rows up the 14" cage. This video made my day, your the man
Glad I could help you. Thanks for watching
The gloves are military - used and seen many.
Western Maryland here - mid 20's to low 30's is average in the winter. Some teens and occasionally 0 or below.
Thanks for the breakdown on how much you put in and your times. I'm looking at pellets for my wood burning fireplace insert. Don't want to spend a fortune on a ready-made basket.. Thanks for the bracket ideas.
Thanks for watching
I really like your ingenuity! I have been using a castle pellet stove for a couple years now and it's been great. But the power outages have me working towards keeping my generator tuned up. This a great experiment friend! Thanks for sharing your experience! Just be safe playing with fire you don't wanna wet the bed!
Thanks for watching Joe
Nice! I’m surprised how well that worked. Miss having a wood stove with a glass front.
Thanks for watching
I can see some use for pellets in a wood stove as a supplemental fuel combined with cord wood.I think I would add the pellets in paper bags.
Paper bags is a good idea, thanks for watching
Maine in the house, it's actually negative 4 right now, but was negative 40 last night.
Holy smokes that’s cold. Thanks for watching
Central Arizona here, we have a woodstove but honestly it rarely gets cold long enough to use it. Nice to have for an extended winter power outage but unless it's cloudy all day, which is a rare occurrence, our house warms up nicely on its own during the day and even last winter when our heater was out for a couple of weeks, it didn't get cold enough in the house to fire up the stove. Even when it got down in the teens at night, the house would only be about 55 by sunrise and then within a couple of hours it was up to about 65 inside. The woodstove would've run us out of the house. As much as I like the ambience of watching a fire in a fireplace or stove, ours is strictly for emergency heat.
Thanks for watching and sharing
Thanks for sharing. Appreciate it as Im exploring the flexibility of burning multiple fuel sources through the same wood stove.
Thanks for watching and leaving me a comment
Middle of New Hampshire it can go to -20 F. An average in Feb. is probably around 0 F. I was late to look for cord wood this year. I am looking to burn pellets in the wood stove. I don't know if the angle irons are needed. It seems like the pellets burn from the top down. Opposite from wood. So as long as the dampers are open correctly, It should burn. The problem is adding more pellets without smothering the burning ones. It will be trial and error I guess.
They definitely burn. Hope you get it figured out. Thanks for watching.
Commercial fry baskets work great for pellets, hold about 5 lbs. I cut the handles off and put on top of hot coals.
Thanks for tip and thanks for watching
Minnesota just got done with below zero weather !
That’s cold thanks for watching
This is actually a great hack to get a large coal base in your stove quickly. Start an overkill kindling fire. Once it’s raging through in a shit load of pellets. Then once it’s all coal stuff it full of oak or madrone and hamper that B down.
Thanks for watching
On low heat, my Harmon XXV burns a 40 lb bag in 16 hours...one fill up...toasty up til minus 10 after that turn the feed up a notch for more heat.
The P68 is definitely more efficient also. Just experimenting burning in my wood stove. Some people want to know how to burn in their wood stoves. Thanks for watching
I can go 2 days on 40lb. Bag.. But last 3 days it was- 36 wind chill so I used 3 bags in 3 days to keep my home at 83 degrees
Im in minnisota and the lowest temp we got so far this year i think was minus -13 with a windchill made it feel like negative 30
Holy smokes now I know only go to Minnesota in the summer. Thanks for watching
I use pellets in my furnace about a bag a day on weekends. Up here in North Dakota winters get to minus 30, and can stay below zero for weeks. Some much easier then cord wood
Pellets are definitely easier than burning wood. I still do not like cleaning my pellet stove. Thanks for watching
Greetings from New Hampshire, our Jan/Feb temps are typically single digits overnight and 25-35F during the day, give or take. I’m watching this wondering why I’ve never tried it before. Seems a bit like those kiln dried blocks that burn real hot and real fast so you’ve got to keep an eye on them but could still be a good way to stretch out the wood supply. Think I’ll give the pellets a try!
Thanks for watching
New Hampshire here too! Great video. Thanks for posting.
Hello from southern Ohio doesn't get super cold but a few months a year but was born and raised in Michigan where the Temps got pretty low
Thanks for watching stay warm
I use a tool box that fits in my woodstove... watching from Corner Brook Newfoundland and Labrador... Canada
Awesome thanks for watching
@DIYJIM the only thing that I find a little frustrating is that it's kinda hard to reload a hot toolbox... do u know where in canada I live jim ?
Hi Jim were gonna have pretty mild temps like in the 50's during the day and the 40's at night here in South Jersey. It looks like the Pellets produce a hotter more rapid fire than cordwood but it won't complete replace a long, steady and consistent heat like logs. Especially when you have to burn more than 2 bags a day, but it could be great to save some firewood once in a blue moon. Based off what I read you can but can't burn them in a wood stove. Yes in that they burn very clean and hot but no in the sense that if you're stove is getting up to like over 600 to 700 degrees it could crack or damage it.
I here ya I was just trying it in case emergency. Thanks for watching Kevin
This is good if you are in a pinch for sure but they sell conversion kits for wood stoves for gravity-fed pallets that will last much longer I'm just pouring a bunch of pellets into an ammo can with holes
Where can you get these conversion kits?
Lol just a good excuse to sit in the garage and burn stuff and drink. Great video jim. Im im in
south central pa. Currently have a propane harman stove. Trying to convert it to wood or pellet. Not quite sure how tho?
There are times I think about switching to propane just for the ease of it. Just not sure how much more it will cost compared to pellets.
@DIYJIM it's not cheap at all.
Sullivan county Pa here. I purchased a used central boiler outside pellet boiler. I just got a ton a of hallmark pellets from Cole’s have you tried them?
Never tried hallmark pellets hope they work good for you
From the Netherlands the coldest we see here is 5F of -15C but it doesnt happen alot
Thanks for watching, sounds like our weather
you might have solved a serious problem for me. i live in Maine near the Canadian border. it gets maybe worst -65 F on a cold morning. BUT your average small tent stove burning away and some SERIOUSLY good insulation will take care of it. anyway i have to heat about 200 square feet of open space and i might not have enough dry firewood. i also HATE getting up at two in the morning to load a very cold stove and light it up again. (the cold always wakes me up, no prob.) so i would like the opportunity to sleep ALL night nice and cozy. THIS pellet idea would work with my possible purchase of a Tractor Supply Forester which already should burn all night with wood. BUT my wood might not be dry for some reason and I have plans to collect bags of pellets for such an emergency. Now I know (because of your experiment) I can do the same thing for a 200 sq ft. shed with one load of pellets. Ten pounds should burn all night, no cold. No reload. as per your experiment!! So a Forester would work nicely for that shed. It has a 4' peaked loft and I think it should heat that okay too. You see I have 1/5th the space to heat that you do in your 1,000 sq ft garage.
Let me know how it turns out. Thanks for watching.
my 15 year old Harmon Accentra burns 30 -34 hours on 1 40lb bag. btw it's 27 degree outside right now.
Wow that’s good I can not get 24 hours burn on my Harman P68
How do you have your settings set? On your Harman
@DIY JIM temp esp at 75 degrees, fan speed low, outside air kit installed. Feed rate is set to 3.
Thanks
My house is only 1000sq ft btw.
Midlands in England staffordshire, subbed great vids!
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Hi from Alaska. Gets down to -30 sometimes.
Holy smokes that’s cold. Would love to come visit Alaska sometime but in the summertime. Thanks for watching.
I think that this is a great idea if you have leftover pellets. But it looks like it Costs $5 an hour to run on Pellets. If there is any way to get logs, I would never burn pellets. I once had extra pellets and so I burned them on my Kamado Joe BBQ. Yes it burned but it would never be my first choice ti burn a manufactured product since it costs more, unless it was necessary. I would however perhaps use the Pellets to get the Logs Burning.
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Looks pretty cool! thanks!
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I live in SEMo, have seen 20f here in Swampeast Mo.
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I have a question. I have a stove that has secondary burn tubes on the top. Is there a gas produced that'll burn
I can not tell you for sure, but I would guess the smoke just like when you burn wood. Thanks for watching
Well I bought an actual basket insert for my stove and it on its way. I live in maine and have intertek 15-ssw01 guess I will have to make a video.
Let me know if you make a video I’ll watch it.
I like your style, Jim. What a great experiment...thanks for posting.
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Would you be aboe to make a video testing this same consept but with wood chips? In theory it should probably work the same?
Thanks for watching maybe this winter. What kind of wood chips?
@@DIYJIM Just regular wood chips from a wood chipper.
Great video brotha! Eastern Shore, Maryland.
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Can you tell me the made up basket things to hold the pellets are called so I can get it at Home Depot? Also, what brand of pellets do you recommend that it’s easy to burn and last a long time? Single mom, NJ
I think they are called a BBQ basket, I burn bear foot pellets but I think any brand would work. Hope this helps
Also, in the video you adjusted the key to the “smoke stack”, to open and close it.excuse me if I don’t know what it’s called. But why did you need to that?
@@lyndameyer9465 I was just trying to slow the burn down.
You could theoretically just insert a rotary pellet burner that does all of this automatically, just need cut a hole in the side or front to accomodate it :D
Do you have a link to a rotary pellet burner. I would like to see it. Thanks for watching
@@DIYJIM th-cam.com/video/aVg3xdunoTI/w-d-xo.html
Something like this. There's a bunch of models. Has automatic everything.
The rotary mechanism is just there to clean off the slag that can be left after burning low quality pellets.
Could you use logs with the pellets?
Sure I guess you could, thanks for watching
Hi. I live in centre about 70 miles south east of Rome Italy uder the mountains ( Sora ) coldest months Jan.with temp,in the high 20 at night.30 during the day.
I use a ventilated insert to warm up a 1200 sq.feet Apt.
I use about 40/50 Los of wood daily on the coldest months (Jan)
Awesome I was in Italy back in my Navy days. Thanks for watching
Comfortbilt hp50s pellet stove keeps my house 75 when it's a steady 10° outside. Burns about 40lbs every day and a half. House is about 1500sq ft, so not big.
That sound like a nice efficient stove.
I shoulda have watched this before buying an expensive wood pellet basket burner. Pellets burn cleaner, less smoke vs. regular wood fuel. Awesome worthwhile DIY 🙌
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Knoxville Tennessee people are freaking out it’s supposed to be in the single digits this weekend
Same here it is flippin cold
from plainfield indiana, close to indy.first time watching
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Tx. Low 40’s at night this week
I would like to visit Tx some day. Thanks for watching
Washington state, average temps... probably low to mix 30s, but we do drop into the teens.
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Can anyone help me..I want to do this in my mom's pot belly stove. Wood is getting expensive and she refuses to get her electric fixed. 😢I was thinking of get a cast iron burning pot and just filling it up. I'm at lowes now. Lol Help! Then I seen you just placed some metal angles inside the base of yours. I think your idea would work great. Let me know if it's doable.
I can not say I would have to see it in person. Make sure the exhaust chimney is clean. I would still think wood would be cheaper. Guess it depends where you live.
@@DIYJIM Well wood is cheaper. However, my wood guy ran out, and my alternative ran out too. So, this would be a backup option. We are in the MD DC area. Lately 37 degrees.
@@nituna27 I’m sure it will be fine since you have been burning wood in it. As long as the chimney is clean. Hope you find more wood.
Is the "#40 bag, 7-8 hours" supposed to be boasting or you thinking that's efficient? A 40 pound bag in my pellet stove I can make last almost 2 days. About 40 hours. I'm in the PNW(pacific northwest)it's been dipping into the high teens to low 20's here at night for the past month or so. 40 pounds at those temps lasts 30-36 hours.
What kind of pellet stove do you have? It was just an experiment. I burn my pellets in my Harman pellet stove.
Kenaf Peninsula Alaska. -26 f. So far this year..
Too cold thanks for watching
I love across the border of my and pa on the Delaware River,, Hale Eddy ny
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WOW, I hope they are cheap there, where I live in NZ that would cost you about $15 just for up to 7-8 hours.
They burn much better in my pellet stove. Yes they are expensive.
I do have a question. You are using the angle steel because your stove doesn't have grates, right?
I do not have Grates but also to get them pellets to burn they need lots of air. So the angle steel helps get air to the pellets.
Good burn there, toss your tempheater away we can see it s hot anyway. Cheers from Sweden -20c
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Hello from the jersey shore 😀
Awesome not too far for me if that’s Jersey Shore PA
Minnesota -30F
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Live in brewerton N.Y. Gets down to low teens .
We get that weather sometimes here in Pennsylvania. Thanks for watching.
😊Dennis from Sweden 👍
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Thanks, why do you have your pipe inside insulated? Better draft?
It’s just the piece coming off my stove. The double walled pipe was used. Thanks for watching
Turn off lights and sit by fire with good program on tv
I load my pellets into a good size paper bag and toss it into the wood stove all at once vs. trying to shovel small amounts in one scoop at a time.
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Wytheville Va
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Would there be any benefit to burn a mixture of pellets and wood ?
Not that I know of. Thanks for watching
What's your favorite brand of pellets
Bearfoot thanks for watching
How much per bag I live in WV
@@ryanaracich5279 not 100% sure I buy them by the ton maybe $5-$6
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Great video 👍I can try to 🤝
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Average temperature is =30 Celsius Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
Holy smokes that’s to cold. Thanks for watching Lily
I sure would like to have a woodstove in my shop, but there's no insurance company that will cover it. Must been too many gas fumes or oil fires so the insurance companies decided not to cover wood heat in a shop anymore. I have to go sit my patio if I want to enjoy a fire.
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Northern mb.. -40
Holy smokes that’s cold
Hancock NY IM FROM
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Low during winter gets to -50
That’s cold
Watched, and am going to tryt in my Harmon insert. will coment on that . FReat Vido
Thanks for watching, let me know how it goes
Why not burn coal it is far less polluting?
My wife says it is to dirty. Thanks for watching
Hmm was -29 degrees celsius =
-20.2 degrees fahrenheit a few days ago. Car would not start lol.
Thanks for watching my truck started slow yesterday it has been really cold here
Burning a 40# bag of pellets every 8 hours would be $21 a day (40# bag of pellets is $6.70 here at TSC) That's $651 a month! My regular cheap wood stove will burn 8 hours easily on 1 load of red oak..That I cut off my property here in Tenn.
Agree never said it was cheaper, just wanted to see how they would burn and how long. Thanks for watching
WESTERN,PA,CRANBERRY TWP.,AND TOO DAMN COLD!
Hey! thats where Im from too! Love this channel
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You got that right hope someday I am making videos down south in the warmth. Thanks for watching
Could you cut back a biscuit tin?
Maybe but I don’t think it would last. Thanks for watching
Canada watch in the heat white north
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Sven from Schweiz 🇨🇭- 10 Grad Celsius
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How hot is your pipe getting
Sorry if I did not show it in the video, I don’t remember. Probably not to hot it is double wall.
Wisconsin 40 below zero
That’s crazy I don’t like it here when it’s winter. Thanks for watching
Heated.with.fisher.mommy.bear.for.years.thanks.for.info.on.pellets
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@@DIYJIM would.u.recomend.a
Harmond.pelet.stove
or.another.brand.I.
live.in.Georgia.
@@rickmeherg7651 Definitely Harman
Hamburg Germany Max -10°
I was stationed in Kizagen Germany. Thanks for watching
Just hook up a patio pellet stove to your pipe
Going to have to look that up. Do you know where I can find one? Thanks for watching
@@DIYJIMany wood stove shop or hardware should sell them .A company called Even Ember's is one. Also look up pellet rocket stoves here on TH-cam and you can get ideas on taking and old wood stove and converting it to pellet.
@@seoulkidd1 thanks for getting back to me. Maybe someday I will try one.
I've been doing this for years. I used to use a homemade steel basket but a cheap pellet smoking basket from the store works every bit as well. A heaped up load of pellets goes around 5-10 pounds and will go for about 2-3 hours.
And +1 on hand sanitizer. Lord knows we have enough of the stuff left over, gotta use it for something. Dump a half-cup on the front of the pellet heap and light it off, no worries.
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Central California …
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look like army issued gloves
Yep 20 year retired SFC 88M
Michigan -20
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ONE BAG ONE DAY 12 HOUER 40 LP
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The netherlands
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At 7 bucks a bag that 21 bucks a day, over 600 bucks a month, heating oil isn't that expensive yet, not electric.
Kind of agree, I Was just doing this to show how to burn. If my electricity would go off for a couple days my pellet stove will not work unless I have a generator. So it was just an experiment and I thought others would like to know how to burn pellets. Thanks for watching
Wow. 40 lbs in 8 hours..... Not very good milage!!!
Agree not very good they burn much better in my pellet stove. Just an experiment