I normally burn 4 or 5 tons of pellets per winter. Used to be 6-8 cords of firewood.
When I switched to pellets I would carry 200 to 250 40lb bags to the basement. I finally got ' smart' and created a chute system from 8" PVC pipe. I built boxes that hold the pellets, on casters so I can move them around, not easy but I can lever them around.
The annual wood pellet day!
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The annual wood pellet day!
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When you get old, you start looking for easier and smarter ways to do things.
When my wife started needing a scooter I was pushing it up a set of ramps into the truck bed. Not hard but with my issues, probably not the smartest to do. But I have an old game hoist in the garage. The hoist goes into the receiver hitch. Now it's just hook up and crank, swing it into the bed and let it down. It's taken me over 70 years to finally get just a bit smarter. Another ten and I might actually figure out what's going on.
When my wife started needing a scooter I was pushing it up a set of ramps into the truck bed. Not hard but with my issues, probably not the smartest to do. But I have an old game hoist in the garage. The hoist goes into the receiver hitch. Now it's just hook up and crank, swing it into the bed and let it down. It's taken me over 70 years to finally get just a bit smarter. Another ten and I might actually figure out what's going on.
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"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
"Freedom is never more that a generation from extinction" Ronald Reagan
"Every man should have at least one good rifle and know how to use it" Dad
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Bill in Oregon
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Re: The annual wood pellet day!
Man, the tool user, putting gravity to work. 
Was just talking with my disabled vet neighbor who hails from Indiana.
He was telling me about a home he had owned that still had coal chutes.
I told him that in the 1950s and early 1960s a lot of homes in Oregon's Willamette Valley still had sawdust chutes for feeding their furnaces. These were the days when "wigwam burners" glowing red dotted the land, as the abundant sawmills had to get rid of their sawdust waste. I remember sawdust piles larger than houses stacked up in front of the boilers that heated Oregon State College. Elementary school chums loved to play in those piles like they were coastal sand dunes. I tried it and found out immediately that I was allergic to one of the conifer species whose chips were in that pile.
This kinda makes me sad for Pitchy, who put so much work and heart into laying in the firewood supply for him and Norma.
Was just talking with my disabled vet neighbor who hails from Indiana.
He was telling me about a home he had owned that still had coal chutes.
I told him that in the 1950s and early 1960s a lot of homes in Oregon's Willamette Valley still had sawdust chutes for feeding their furnaces. These were the days when "wigwam burners" glowing red dotted the land, as the abundant sawmills had to get rid of their sawdust waste. I remember sawdust piles larger than houses stacked up in front of the boilers that heated Oregon State College. Elementary school chums loved to play in those piles like they were coastal sand dunes. I tried it and found out immediately that I was allergic to one of the conifer species whose chips were in that pile.
This kinda makes me sad for Pitchy, who put so much work and heart into laying in the firewood supply for him and Norma.