Snow & Pellet Prices

[foxtrapper]

It started snowing just an hour ago. Pellet prices have "adjusted". They were selling for ~$220 a ton, they are now ~$260 a half ton.

[Danaus29]

Yep, if you don't stock up when they first come in you pay a whole lot more. Cord wood has been the same around here, the colder and snowier it gets the more expensive the wood gets.

[travlnusa]

OUCH. Is shopping around an option? I paid $185/ton this fall. Last Friday as temps were below zero and and a blizzard coming, I paid $185. They warned me that the next load will be $190/ton.

This is in NW WI

[ovendoctor]

guess id better get 4 skids tomorrow

can get them delivered for 180 a ton :banana02:

[mightybooboo]

Thats a nasty price increase,wow!!!!

[Helena]

Makes you wonder how long the "people" will continue to take this abuse from prices.. .When things get backed up in warehouses the prices will go down. I wonder how our beloved politicians are keeping warm this winter..oh..they must heat with ...hot air... Husband mentioned looking at a wood pellet stove since we heat entirely with wood heat with 3 wood stoves in this old farm house now and the past 30 some years...Atleast, I know I can go outside and chop down a tree or two if I run low on my firewood. Maybe, I'm just a little too independent for my own good at times...I"ll huddle around a meager little wood stove fire before I will be taken advantage off. But, yet of course, I don't have small children to keep warm either these days..Few options these days for us working class people..pay up or do without...What to do ???

[dogrunner]

Central Ohio here and I can get em for under $200/ton still.

[uncle Will in In.]

How many pellets does it take to run a stove on high 24 hours?? How large an area will the stove heat?? How do they compare with corn stoves for cost to opperate??

[melissa78]

I can buy them for $190/ton, but I have to drive an extra 15 miles for them. The closest place charges $35 more for the same product. Here in central Vermont, that is actually down around $60/ton from 5 or so years ago because they are produced more locally. In our home, I lost the battle, I wanted a wood stove and hubby's parents bought us a new pellet stove for Christmas. But I *will* have a new wood cookstove for my next big investement. I don't like using only manufactured fuels for heat.

[Sparkey]

So...what do you figure your total $$ cost for heat using a pellet stove for the heating season ?

I have a woodstove I have not heated with for 15 years or so. I have a several year old natural gas furnace we have used since we stopped burning wood & had it inspected last year & was in good condition. I do keep 8-10 full cord of dry oak under an enclosed lean to. I consider it as my 'backup' in case the furnace dies or natural gas prices go sky high. Our house is older but well insulated,
With using nat. gas for heat, hot water heater, nat. gas stove & oven , & clothes dryer our annual bill averages around $800-$900, which at this point I believe is reasonable. We live in north central WI.

Charlie

[unioncreek]

A bunch of us get together and buy a semi load directly from the manufacturer. We've been buying premium pellets for $175/ton. All the stores that carry the same brand have them priced at $220. The only other heat source we would have is electrical or propane and I couldn't afford to heat with either.

Bobg

[WhiteChristmas]

Earlier last week they were $129. for a large round one. Now after freezing rain and snow and ice and Christmas next week. $149. a quick rate hike. sigh, still need another one. But hate paying a robber baron.

[solidwoods]

Dang.
We use wood and we purchase "weight wood" which is less than pulp wood grade. its any kind of hardwood logs. $22. ton. The do have to be cut to length and the larger ones need to be split.
jim

[tamsam]

Just noticed today at Tractor Supply they had them 160 a ton. I wonder how long that will last and it has been colder here than normal. Sam