Okanagan and Westwood Super Premium pellets are made from 100% softwood sawdust. There are no additives, bark or other possible contaminants. Okanagan's meet the Super Premium standard of the Pellet Fuel Institute.
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First season burning Okan. Found them to be very small with lots of dust Dealer said he got a bad load from them so I waited to pick up my next ton, they seem to be the same though. Burned New England hardwood the last 2 years and am going to go back to them, they are cheaper and not as dusty. My stove is a Harman XXV 2008 great stove, house is 1900 sq. ft. with electric back up that has not been turned on since 1986. Stove is compleatly cleaned every 3weeks and just replaced the ignighter Mar 2012.
This is our second year with Okanagan Wood Pellets with awesome heat and so little ash. One trick I found is when first running the stove run it a little higher for a short period of time the stove runs better hot and then bring it down to a comfortable temperature. We bought a Davenport pellet stove by Hudson Works in Vermont and extremely pleased with the heat it provides. The pellets are chemical free and the exhaust is barely noticeable outside. We have maybe a 1 lb. coffee can worth of ash every 3 to 4 weeks. The bags are recyclable and we burn the skid for our summer fires. NO WASTE. An enormous truly green product. The cost savings and being warm in every corner of the house is wonderful. We burn 3 tons a year in New England.
Burned these all last year. Great pellet if you can find it. Couldn't get them local this year. Excellent heat, very low ash and clean. Small, consistent pellet size. Strongly recommended! Used in Harman Accentra
Burned these all last year. Great pellet if you can find it. Couldn't get them local this year. Excellent heat, very low ash and clean. Small, consistent pellet size. Strongly recommended! Used in Harman Accentra
I have a Quadra Fire Santa Fe stove and have burned many different brands of pellets. I bought Okanagan pellets for the first time at the end of last years season and have been burning the since. I have never had a pellet that has had so much fly ash and in the 6 years of burning pellets in my Quadra fire. This brand has been so dirty burning I have has to clean the stack at least once a month and many times sooner. The inside of the stove is cleaned at least twice weekly. I have never had to clean the ash pan so often. I will not buy this brand again after this supply is used up.
I bought some of these last year and really enjoyed them. This year the company says they are not shipping them to Ontario from B.C. due to the high price of freight.
okies wood pellets, last year i tried 15 bags of them and loved them, so i purchased 3.9 tons this year, and ihave found lots of fines in them and holes in the bags, i have no idea if this is how they were stored, with pallets on top of pallets that caused this problem, i was just curious if any one else has this problem too.i think that next year iam going to try some different ones, or att he end of this season as i will have to purchase more, I clean my insert every 4 days or less if needed. i burn a Quadra fire 1200 insert and love it.I also had a problem with the pellets bing so shot and having sharp ends on them the pellets got hung up and did not slide down the hopper to the feed box so i had about 1/4 bag hang up . kind of makes one think, what is wrong.
I have a Quadra-Fire 1200 insert, i love it , i burned hammer hot ones this last heating season,they were dusty with a lot of fines in it,and a whole lot of ash glass got dirty . i ran out and then i bought 15 bags of okanagan pellets and tried them. Let me tell you some thing hardley and fines at all, burned super clean and very hot, these are what iam going to get this coming heating season. 5 tons worth. the glass satyed ssuper clean and not a lot of ashes,
i live in north west ct, it ws a cld snowy winter
I own a Mt Vernon AE Quadra-fire Insert and the Okanagan's Super Premium soft wood pellets burned great and left very little ash. I have burned a total of 5 tons heating a 3,000 Sq Ft home in CT. 2 tons of Hamer Hot Ones and 3 tons of Okies during the 2010 - 2011 season and will look for the Okies this season even at a higher cost. They burn hotter and i find the softwood burns longer.
The Okie's burn hotter and make the weekly cleanings less time consuming. I can wipe the glass soot clean with a wet paper towel! The ash is white and less corrosive to the burn pot.
After 1st season of heating, I have done a recent test to include a 3 bag burn, clean & vacuum w/ notes on 5 brands
Okanagan Pellet Co. rated high on my scale, burned dry with low tar/oil residue left on glass. Good heat but a little high on ash but being dry was the savings on cleaning
I contemplated buying Okanagan pellets for my pellet stove in northern Vermont. However, I found that they had a lower BTU rating that similar pellets from a Vermont company at comparable cost and I couldn't justify purchasing a product that had to be transported across the continent.
I'm a new pellet stove owner this is my first year. The Okanagan pellets were my first ones. I've tried a few bags of other popular brands and I have to say that I really can't tell a big difference. I've noticed that the okanagan's are much lighter in color and shorter in length. I'll probably buy another pallet next year.
RE: Okanagan Wood Pellets
Excellent product.
We're in Western MA and this is our second year with a pellet stove, a Breckwell Classic.
Last year we used two types of pellets, Spruce & Eco-Flame and they worked out okay; probrobly liked the Spruce a bit better.
This year niether of those brands were availible so we chose the Okanagan. The first thing I noticed upon emptying a bag into the stove was how little dust there was, so much less than we had experienced before. The pellets burned nice with few clinkers left in the pot.
The one serious downsound we had with these pellets was that one of the two pallets had not been properly weatherized and we opened it found that we had 10 bags with water damge
Finances being what they were we only bought two of our usual 3 pallets, waiting to see what the winter would be like before we bought a third.
Needing a 3rd pallet I was disapointed to find that they had sold out so I tried a pallet of one called BURN, Manufactured by American Alternative Fuel Company in Waltham MA.
These pellets are a mix of hard and softwood. I am about 6 bags into the pallet and I am pretty sure already that I wont be getting them again next year.
Imagine trying to stir the pot and finding instead of ash a hunk of what appears to be blackened cinder block...every day.
Even upping the air flow does not seem to help burn the stuff cleanly. Maybe it is normal with this type of pellet but it is not something I want to deal with again.
Have a Magical Day!
K
amazing heat, very few fines, very low ash, lots of soot while igniting, made the clinker of the century in my stove, Lopi Pioneer Bay
We are new to the Pellet Stove world. Buying a home with pellet as our primary heat sourse was trying to say the least as we purchased the home last December in N.H. We tryed all brands and found OAKANAGAN about mid January 2010. The temp in our home raised 10 degrees over any other pellet. Go to DODGES AGWAY IN HAMPTON FALLS, NH AND ASK FOR KEITH, he is the owner, he HAS OAKANAGAN and they deliver for a fraction of the cost of Home and Hearth in Hampton Falls as well.
This past winter is the first time I burned Okanagan wood pellets. I notice the difference by the third bag.I have an Envio Empress stove and it heats a 1500 sqft Cape in New England. I have tried the ones at HomeDepot and Lowes when there was a shortages of pellets. I went through 3 tons of pellets last season. A great wood pellet!
Hey pellet hunter, Admin here. I have done the same with the LG's. If you can get your hand on Blazer Wood Pellets ( wow pellet company ), those are right up there if not even hotter than the OK's and burn like you read about. I found them at Home Depot 1 time but found them at Robin's down in MA. They are the only ones that took delivery from them out here on the east coast. Like the OK's they are from the west coast and I must say that the west coast softwood pellets put all of the East Coast pellets to shame with quality of burn and temp. The West Coast Douglas fir pellets are great!
rob
I use a harmon p43 stove. direct vent /w fresh air intake. (i like it very much no problems)
One of the Best Pellets we have burned. This winter Okies would be the #1 pellet.
I heard the same about these pellets. I have not been able to try them out. what type of stove...
Admin?
these are the best pellets i used to date. they burn very hot and clean with a large bright flame. My stove would have trouble heating my entire home when the temperature dipped below 20 degrees outside - but since i been using these pellets i can keep my home at a vry comfortable temp. even in the single digits. -I perform a gd. weekly cleaning of my stove then fire it up with a new test bag of different brand pellets. ea. week. (Give it a couple hrs.) Then I use a infrared heat gun to measure the heat output on my stove -(okies are the hottest)- I now mix them with various other brands and it helps them burn much better and hotter so i could use up the ones that arent so great till this cold weather breaks.
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