Snowy Rivers
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I put the FrankenCat on hold for a couple days to get much of the winter heating materials in.
NO IT'S NOT WOOD
We run two pellet stoves here at the ranch and we feed them ground up hazelnut shells.
We get the shells by the 3 yard dumpster full at the plant and then barrel them up in 55 gallon drums and store them in one of the out buildings.
We have been heating this way for years.
Recently all the plants went to new machinery that leaves the shells as 1/2 shell..
Little bowls if you will.
I whipped up a little "Munchy" as we call it to smash the stuff up to smaller pieces that feed well through the stoves......
Out here in the sticks we don't have natural gas available.. the house has an electric furnace......$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ burner.
Wood is a pain to get.....and the pellet burners are cheap and do a great job...
Last year the electronic controls on one stove died and the new control board was break the bank stupid costly and hard to get.
So it was time to engineer a new controller..
Design worked sweet....made one for both stoves.
Here is a video for the Munchy running.....The Sis is a tad scared to feed it fast......It will eat a 55 gallon barrel in about 15 minutes and make it stove ready.
A video on the controller doing its thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chGYl3p7Nbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKO50YT6wDc
NO IT'S NOT WOOD
We run two pellet stoves here at the ranch and we feed them ground up hazelnut shells.
We get the shells by the 3 yard dumpster full at the plant and then barrel them up in 55 gallon drums and store them in one of the out buildings.
We have been heating this way for years.
Recently all the plants went to new machinery that leaves the shells as 1/2 shell..
Little bowls if you will.
I whipped up a little "Munchy" as we call it to smash the stuff up to smaller pieces that feed well through the stoves......
Out here in the sticks we don't have natural gas available.. the house has an electric furnace......$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ burner.
Wood is a pain to get.....and the pellet burners are cheap and do a great job...
Last year the electronic controls on one stove died and the new control board was break the bank stupid costly and hard to get.
So it was time to engineer a new controller..
Design worked sweet....made one for both stoves.
Here is a video for the Munchy running.....The Sis is a tad scared to feed it fast......It will eat a 55 gallon barrel in about 15 minutes and make it stove ready.
A video on the controller doing its thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chGYl3p7Nbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKO50YT6wDc
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