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Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove

10/20/08       
John Lang

Many people who bought pellet stoves last year cannot get enough pellets this year to do all winter- due to rationing by suppliers.Does anyone know of a company that makes machines that make pellets from silage, newspapers, cardboard, fallen leaves, tree branches, etc? Small scale to serve a 50 mile radius.

10/20/08       #2: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
KCR

John,
Do a search in the upper right corner of this forum and you will find alot of information on this topic as well as machinery manufactures that make homeowner level machines. I looked into some of it a couple of months ago from these forums but can't find the actual literature, the office needs a cleaning!

10/21/08       #3: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
Donnie M Jones

Call pellet Pros 1-309-852-3625

10/27/08       #4: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
Matt

I used to work at a place that sold them 10+ years ago and some people would burn corn in them when pellets were in short supply. That was of course before corn went way up in price. Just a thought, don't have a price comparison handy between the two.

11/10/08       #5: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
james

Apted Technologies on Ebay sells pellet machines a very reasonable prices.

11/13/08       #6: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
Johnny

Do you think you could pelletize cow manure? Talk about a value added product!

11/14/08       #7: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
james

I would think you could if you can dry it down to 10-15% moisture. They burned buffalo chips in the old west.

11/19/08       #8: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
KCR

Johnny,
I finally found what I was looking for! From one of the other posts below about burning pellets, I contacted this company and they have an online video of one of their machines working. in his literature he references 16 products and by-products that can be pelletized. If I remember correctly, I had called them and he said you can pelletize almost anything. It's just that some things produce more BTU's than others. For example, he says that pelletized soybeans produce 10,230 BTU's/lb. and softwood dust produces 7,000 BTU's/lb. They have a variety of machine designs, check them out @ www.pelletpros.com

1/5/09       #9: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
lucas Member

try www.makeyourownpellets.com. They have a huge amount of information in their forum about how to make pellets. From what I hear they have awesome customer support.

1/19/09       #10: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
John

Website: http://www.pelheatblog.com

Hi John

I just posted on one of the other wood pellet topics. After a bit of searching I found a website of a company based in the UK called PelHeat. They are developing a small mobile pellet maker. It appears to be a trailer mounted affair with a Perkins engine powering the equipment. Its currently still in development, however when I sent them an email they said they were hoping to have it on the market by July.

They do provide a lot of information though that cleared up a lot of the gaps in my knowledge on how the process works and what equipment is needed. I’ve just being reading more or their Blog at www.pelheatblog.com (link at the top), and its full of information on making and burning pellets. Recent articles are on manure pellets and waste wood pellets. Lots of different biomass materials can be used to produce pellets, but each has its own advantages and disadvantages it appears. There are also some good videos on there too.

As stated in my other post I’ve just finished reading their wood pellet production guide. Cleared up a lot of confusion on what does and doesn't work in a pellet mill and how to change aspects to produce better quality pellets. That’s at www.woodpelletmill.com, a link should appear at the bottom of the post I think.

Hope this helps

John

Wood Pellet Production Guide

12/7/09       #11: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
PepperEvans Member

We use biomass pellets for our pellet stove. It's economical & renewable.

Wood Pellet Stove

2/13/10       #14: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
hartzou

Want to make the wood pellets by yourselft? Small pellet press is necessary to you.

Wood Pellet Mill

1/17/14       #17: Homemade Pellets for Pellet Stove ...
Ada

You can buy a set of pellet machine online.
This supplier has exported to many countries


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