There is a shortage of wood pellets where i live and that is the only way i have to heat my house, I have access to endless amounts of saw dust and want to know if anyone could tell me how i could make my own pellets?
2007-01-19 08:41:25 · 6 answers · asked by littlesister121 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Hi Littlesister. Unfortunately you cannot produce your own pellets because this is done with expensive machinery (extruder?). You could go online or to your stove retailer and ask for info on a conversion kit though. I understand that some stoves can be converted to run on corn. This shortage of pellets hit the central New York area last year and that's what discouraged me from buying a pellet stove.
As for locating pellets, there are many retailers, I've even seen them in walmart the other day. You should circumvent your usual suppliers and look to walmart, tractor supply,ebay, online suppliers (do a search)or your yellow pages. Last year people in CNY were driving 50 miles or more to buy a ton of pellets.
You should also be looking for an alternate source of heat, woodstove, gas space heaters, preferably something that doesn't require electricity. This could help enormously is case of an outage. Good luck.
2007-01-20 00:14:41 · answer #1 · answered by greg 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think you can, but you could experiment with whole shell corn. Go to the local farm feed store and purchase a bag of "whole shell corn". Many people in my area use corn instead of wood pellets in their stoves.
2007-01-19 08:46:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately, wood pellets require very high pressure to produce. As an alternative, can you use regular firewood, or something like Idaho logs?
2007-01-19 08:53:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ive mixed whole cattle corn with pellets before. 1 corn & 2 or more parts pellets. proceed carefully insurance may not cover mishaps. corn comes in 50 lb bags
2007-01-19 16:00:07 · answer #4 · answered by enord 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't waste your time unless you have a wood shop, then burn scrapwood.
on the other hand, you can burn commercial corn, like pellets, but cheaper and get a better burn.
pick them up at feed & seed stores.
do your searches in virginia state as they use and grow a lot of corn there.
2007-01-19 13:37:01 · answer #5 · answered by ticketoride04 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would think sand and/or soil would be the safest. Too, back in the "olden days" (before so much commercial litter), people used to shred newspaper [a tedious job then, but now there are paper shredders]. My cats object to shredded paper..... though they have no objection to peeing on the Sunday paper. Can you lay pages of newspapers in the litter boxes (fold it up and remove it when it's time to change it)? Donations of newspapers should be easy.
2016-05-23 22:28:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋