in the wood stove? I am curious as suppliers stop getting the wood pellets for the stove in late in the seasons yet always seems to have the stall bedding pellets in stock…I think my relative has enough but I seem to remember April being pretty cold last year! (Please excuse the stupidity of this question!)
TIA
Bedding pellets are made of soft wood- like pine- and you should not use them in a pellet stove. They can gunk up the stove and the chimney and lead to fires.
They also will not burn as efficiently as hardwood.
I sometimes use wood pellets as a base for my bedding. It’s commonly sold for this purpose at our local feed stores. I definitely would not use bedding pellets in my pellet stove, however.
Bedding pellets = pine.
Stove pellets = who knows what, including waste from construction and furniture industries.
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Bedding pellets = pine.
Stove pellets = who knows what, including waste from construction and furniture industries.[/QUOTE]
My stove pellets are 100% pine with no additives. I believe most are; you don’t want to be incinerating unknown chemicals and what not.
You can use stove pellets as bedding
http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?329928-Wood-stove-pellets-as-alternative-bedding
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My stove pellets are 100% pine with no additives. I believe most are; you don’t want to be incinerating unknown chemicals and what not.[/QUOTE]
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-its-made/videos/how-its-made-wood-pellets/
At my local Fleet Farm, they sell:
Horse bedding pellets made of pine
Stove pellets made of pine
Stove pellets made of hardwood
Seems that someone makes a stove that takes the softwood pellets. I’ve always thought it was curious that the softwood stove pellets are the most costly of the three options. They’re all produced by the same company.
I’d be super careful about using hardwood stove pellets for bedding.
Could have black walnut in the mix & just not worth taking that chance.
ETA: read the link posted above & found my 4yo post saying basically the same as here
FWIW, a friend here in the Midwest had her horse founder when a load of sawdust was found to contain black walnut among woods used.
Thanks. It is a quadra fire-great points made—looks like it would burn softwood but again only thinking in a real big pinch – the pellet size would be important and how much sawdust is produced in the bag. As I dont use wood pellet for bedding I really need to take a look at it. Looks like the softwood pellet burns higher-greater heat output.
I had the same problem this year. Every store was out of stove pellets and people were resorting to using pine pellets for horses. I did the same - just a couple of bags to get us through the last gasp of winter.
The problem with using the pelleted horse bedding is that you may burn out the exhaust on your woodstove. The pine burns much hotter and faster. We didn’t have that problem but we only burned a couple of bags of it. I turned down the feed rate on the stove as well.
It worked out fine but if you were going to use the pelleted horse bedding for any length of time you’ll want to call the manufacturer and verify you won’t damage the woodstove. I guess different brands might have different specs too. Ours was a Harman. Very nice stove that heated the entire house.
