How It's Made: Wood Pellets
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I have a diesel powered pellet maker and can make all the pellets I need in one Summer to heat my home in the Winter for several years. Of course when we first started using our pellet stove the pellet prices where we live were quite expensive and it was cheaper to use Natural Gas. I get all the saw dust I could ever need for free from one of our local cabinet shops, no grinding needed. I just make sure the moisture content is at 12% and I can make around 400 lbs of pellets an hour.
Sell the pellet s
Yeah you could make a killing selling extra pellets locally at a slightly lower cost than average supplier. My parents had a pellet stove but LP became cheaper after a few years so they sold it.
That guy is right you should totally sell them. If I had the choice I would totally buy from someone making them like you. I bet any feed store in your area would buy them
I guess by the use of "freedom units" you are not in UK....
Such an enterprise here would be illegal unless you had a waste management liscence. The sawdust you use is considered a waste material here and you can't just get it and put it to good use without paying "the man"
Not that I'm jealous or anything..
@@dougaltolan3017 uk is a shithole, cant even watch telly without having a proper license
I've been watching these ever since I was a kid, very entertaining for me.
Same. This, Modern Marvels and Tales of the Gun. History Channel and Discovery back when they were worth watching....
me too 🥲
Same, makes me wonder how kids watch tiktok and think they know everything lol
@@JordanJank Yet you are here, on a video hosting service, complaining about another video hosting service, all while having uploaded shitty gameplay.
@@j.c.5480 How to convey you are a miserable person with a single word?
I do love me my Pellet Stove and the relaxing 'tinking' noise it makes, as the auger drops pellets into the Burnpot. Very soothing and cathartic.
Interesting, I've never used a pellet stove, so this is new to me.
I work as a plant operator at a wood pellet factory its very intresesting seeing other factorys production process . Its the same yet so different . We also use woodpowder as fuel for our drying process . We use pine and spruce sawdust as rawmaterial but we also use wood shavings that we add in later in the process after the sawdust is dryed
Vamos trocar conhecimento meu rei,tbm trabalho e uma fábrica de pellett pinus
I totalget that. I spent 5 years in a Styrofoam plant and whenever I watched videos on here of other plants some of them were backwards thinking and far less efficient. I tried explaining to someone how they stacked the blocks was terrible amd restricted their capacity to about 60 percent and they couldn't wrap their mind around it. They stand the blocks on end as we layed ours down flat and stacked like lumber at the yard. Of you have a strong enough fork life you couls stack a literal mile high stack.
I worked in a pellet plant for a year it was awesome, the owners were awesome and I learned all aspects of the process
Does the wood smell good
@@AgentOffice I liked the smell, when I was younger and living in northern Michigan my family owned a logging company.
@@patrickbrowne4905 lucky 🪵
Can I ask you, is there any reason why rice husks cant be used instead of wood?
@@amosicronery7730 because rice husks are usually used to produce rice bran oil which is more valuable
Watching these videos is literally the only source of happiness for me right now.
loved how they censored the brand name in 4:38 and showed it 5 seconds later
Love these wood pellets for cat litter!
I use them for my bunny!
I let my cat out of the door when it wants to create deposits
Likewise and since we great with them easier too
@@laurisikio hope the coyotes don’t get em
@@Jcc8t7 coyotes? Wrong continent.
But cats deserve to be out in the wild rather than locked in the house. Besides, they keep mice away.
Now my steam powered vehicle is going to have a modified wood pellet stove burner!!
if fuel prices don't stop going up i might convert my vehicle to steam.... lol
@@davidpugh8772 This is probably sadly true
It's pretty easy and cheap to convert a vehicle to electric. Battery and solar prices have plummeted in the last 10 years.
@@rubiconnn cheap? lol cheapest I can find is around $10k
@@davidpugh8772 Still cheaper than buying thousands of gallons of fuel or literally tons of wood pellets over the lifetime of the vehicle.
Also makes very good cat litter, bunny litter, etc...
Haha they tried to censor the company name and number during bagging but the next scene you can clearly see PWPELLETS and the phone number
pwp whats this
I worked on *California Pellet Mill* machines - exact same principle as shown. We blended 65% shredded polyethylene scrap plastics with 35% shredded hardwood fibers into pellets which was then run thru an extruder - the molten hot material was then compression molded into a product.
@@raybin6873 Really..how is burning 2/3 plastic safe for residential ( indoor) use?
Just wondering as I'm no scientist. Did a few hard weekends in a PVC pipe factory back in mid-80's; don't miss that rather stinky detail but it gave me a unique perspective on Blue Man Group..
Ahahaha
@@brianstratton8767
It isn't burned but formed into products like decking planks, Trex is one brand.
Burning polyethylene isn't any different than wax. Polyurethane can form cyanide, PVC can form phosgene and dioxin. But polyethylene and polypropylene are only hydrocarbons.
I haul pine pellets for DraxBioMass that are used to fuel power plants. Cool to see how they're made
Automation is a beautiful thing
Until it costs a worker his job. 😥😭
@@dentatusdentatus1592 Theoretically, the economy will generate a replacement job for him in the long run, at least that's what mainstream economists would tell you. (The increased productivity will, in theory, generate more disposable income which will create demand for more products, which he can be employed to make.) Political economists from Friedmann, to Piketty, to Marx, all agree on this point. However, I don't completely disagree with you, because that's not to say there aren't problems associated with automation. De-skilling, less opportunity for labor organising, inequality and its many consequences, a falling rate of profit, systemic risk, over-centralisation, a lack of resilience and adaptability, damage to the environment and other externalities, state capture, and a catastrophically high cost of fixed capital during the inevitable economic crises that happen every few years, are all indirect consequences of automation. Automation should result in fewer hours worked and abundance for all. If it doesn't, then it is interesting to consider how the system of laws, property rights, and concentrations of power prevent that. (And there are many schools of thought on that subject!)
@@dentatusdentatus1592 automation doesn't cost jobs, just think about it for a minute, if you go back a few hundred years nearly everyone on earth was a farm labourer or worked in industry. The vast majority of those jobs have since been automated but we're not seeing mass unemployment because automation leads to lower prices of whatever was being made, eg wood pellets, so people spend less money on wood pellets and more money on other commodities, usually luxuries, thus creating more jobs in that industry
unles the rich use it to get richer and poor get more poor
Now there is a press from Saalasti Finland that can press the extra moisture off from the material before it goes to the energy consuming dryer making it vastly more efficient and even improving plant capasity. It also reduces the energy consumption and wear of the hammermills by breaking the bigger particles in a right manner. As one user agreed "it is the closest thing to printing money"...
What company makes such press?
Ahh crap...now I'm down the how it's made rabbit hole again.
Same
how it's made version of this is going to be lit
nice to know. i've carried nearly a ton of this stuff for my grandparent's house after all.
I have had a pellet stove for 18 years now and use it for supplement heat. The main thing is doing the annual maintenance on the stove and the cleaning of the burn chamber when using it for a few days. One thing I don’t like is the big increase in the price of the pellets. Supply and demand but there seems to be more pellet making plants near in New England.
Here the pelets is horrible expencive and used for animal bedding, would not dream of burning it because of the cost...vAlso it is always sold out...
thank you algorithm, this is exactly what i need right now.
in Serbia its made of compressed cash assuming from the price.
Pellet stove is the best home investment ive made. No longer use Boiler/oil to heat my house
I'm done with my wood stove just got a pellet stove love it no more splinters the maintenance of the stone isn't too bad even annually. Got a generator backup for grid power loss.
In Croatia pellet price went 200% up in a year. Wood waste for gods sake! Whatever cheap way of heating we find, it automatically goes up 100%, and therefore unprofitable.
Corporations: "people are burning lots of wood for FREE... how can WE profit off of that?"
Our SCAN Andersen 10 burns very cleanly and its fuel comes directly from our land. Still, I'd love to burn pellets if I could get them cheaply enough. But it's hard to compete with _free._
Will there ever be new seasons? I have been watching this religiously for many many years.
These are great for cat litter. 40 lbs of wood pellets for $5.99 over 35 lbs of clay litter for $26. Also, no clumpy nasty clay litter stuck to the bottom of the pan, just wipe the wet sawdust clean with a dry paper towel.
Wow! I never knew this existed in the world.... Alot of strange new stuff has been popping up on my feed... kinda cool
Wood pellets cost significantly less than other fuels....until the demand for pellets goes up. Then so will the price.
“Made from a variety of products, wood, wood and more wood!”
I work at a pellet mill and I will say this it’s way more complicated than they think and way more dangerous too
I'm an Electrician, and I have worked the occasional Flour Mill: The only place with higher standards for Explosion Proofing than Oil Refineries. I saw the dust floating in the air...
what about this machines that you can make your own pellet
Dangerous as hell I got wrapped up in my machine
I work at one also. not dangerous unless you're a complete moron
One of those places I saw on fire. That thing outside that turns was so black from the fire.
I can't imagine the safety standards they need to follow now with the heatwave we've been having this summer.
That was cool to see
Yuuusss Brooks the best narrator!
Cant live without knowing this
We use these for our rabbit litter and work great!
Also great for bird nest boxes
We use pine pellets for cat litter too.
Cat Litter as well. Mine are Doug Fir.
@@fideliareeve3493 are pellets from sawdust good for cats? I mean is it toxic?
@@alexadespacito4561 as far as I know, it's fine. It's cleaned, dried and compressed sawdust. We've been using it for my cat since she was able to use a litter box and haven't seen any side effects. We use a brand made for horse stables from tractor supply because it's slightly more affordable but if you'd prefer there are brands specifically for cats. But from what I can tell it's all the same thing.
And all you need to do is add hot water and BAM! You have Taco Bell Refried Beans!!!!
OH SHIT THEY STILL DOING THIS????? HELL YEAH!!!!!!
Brooks Moore was the best narrator ever for this show!!
I find it interesting that in America there are very few compressed wood options. Wood pellets are an emerging industry in America.
America has 6mm pellets, the industrial/rare 8mm pellets, and the even more rare 10mm pellets, and America also has bio-bricks.
Other places have more options for compressed wood. I saw a wood compressor that made 20mm cubes of pressed wood. I want to get my hands on a bag or two of those cubes because they look interesting.
I also am a bit upset that there are few pellets that use a bit of oil in the mix. Oil in wood pellets can act as a sealing agent against water, and increase the energy density ... BUT it is an extra expense so many don't bother.
I love science
I use hickory and cherry wood pellets to smoke my grill. It's great to grill steaks with.
great, now I want a steak 😂
I actually think this is a great way of recycling wood.
I remember seeing one of those pellets as I loaded it into my pellet heater hopper, coincidental...
Funny timing as wood pellets are crazy expensive and almost impossible to buy these days..
$6 for 40-50lbs if you buy "horse bedding" which is the same thing but not packaged as such.
Quadra fire. Worked there at hearth and home in colville
There is enough wood wasted at logging sights in Maine alone to supply most of America!
i had to work at a wood pellet mill before and oh man did it not look as clean as this. the place was basically two "hangar tents" with all the machinery operating inside it, no insulation to keep us warm so we had to work with heavy coats. We had an operator and two baggers that basically bagged and stacked the finished pellets. sawdust piling up in the corners, machinery held together by duct tape and hope, on a freezing wet day you had to go pound on the side of the bin that feeds the wood chips into the grinder with a sledgehammer to knock the material lose, i had to put out a small fire in the corner by the "office" once, eventually started getting shorted on hours because of critical machine malfunctions eventually had to quit and move out cause there was literally NOTHING close enough to work at. Awful, horrible job that also damaged my body having to work at. but apparently the company decided to keep it running as is instead of upgrading the equipment or shutting it down for a while despite having other facilities that were run to a much higher standard and much less dangerously and this one not having as good of an output. And because it was operating in a dead end small mountain town they could get away with letting sawdust float over the town when we inevitably got a strong wind blowing through the valley.
waah
I am rock hard right now!! 👍😊👍
Love my pellet stoves… wouldn’t go back…. Love Summerset’s make in the USA pellets !
Clean, dry heat WITHOUT THE BLOODY SMOKE? You bet. Just make sure you get one with a battery backup. Some brands will simply stop if the electricity goes out in your area.
Scent type if make this way to burn then become aromatheraphy? As long as coalfire touch = will burn until ash anyway right?
I remember working and selling pallets of wood pellets at 2 bucks a bag, when I left that company in 2014 they went up to 5.50 a bag .. almost tripled in a couple years.. I don’t know how much they cost today in 2022
Back in 2000 we had a special stove that burned pellets or shelled field corn. Corn burned hotter than pellets and I had a small dump truck and at times I could buy a bushel of corn ( 56 lbs ) for under $2.00. It usually took about 100 to 150 bushels for a normal winter. Last I knew about 6 years ago pellets was over $6.00 a bag .
$22 for a 20lb bag in TX
Just bought 25 bags for $219. Higher quality stuff though.
Wtf really here in Massachusetts there about 7 dollars for a 40 pound bag
Over 6 dollars a bag here, pretty soon I'll go back to natural gas again. Prices went up way too fast for pellets.
Pellet power!
I used to use these for all my rabbits, Its time to get a bag of this for my cats tray.
What if they catch fire
I use wood pellets as cat litter
My recently purchased pellet stove has already save a bunch of money I would normally be spending on propane which is stupid expensive
No joke. So interesting to me I fall a sleep immediately
There are 2 properties around my area that are running on WOOD, 1 is a commercial store and when that fires up and runs esp on fireing up there’s dark smoke pouring out of the flue. So as for the stuff doesn’t smoke, .. I don’t think so
That dark smoke is due to a dirty flue. Cleaning it will get rid of the smoke.
Yes a good flue clean wouldn’t go a miss, but that’s only part of the soot that’s been captured the rest went up and away. Don’t get me wrong I’m for wood fires it’s been around since man kind, but these eco fires still that are so eco friendly aren’t because they still burn wood in a different shape. It’s called baffling brains with bullshit
Fuel pellets , well when I buy them they are called cat litter in the UK lol
3:40 I'm like 99% sure lignin =/= tree sap. Lignin is the "bulk" of the trees structure / physical material. Sap is basically tree food - nutrients that gets produced by sap wood and moved to the branches to help produce new branches and leaves.
I think this sentence should be "The compression generates heat which draws out the tree sap still contain in the wood fiber made mostly of lignin. Once the sap cools it helps the wood pellets keep their shape"
or something like that.
I think we should rather leave the sap out of this. It is the lignin that acts as a binder (sometimes they ad a little extra but most often the natural lignin content is high enough), I don't think sap plays any significant role in the binding process of pellets.
Quality has been assured 😎
that's a terrible sentence
I work in a pellet plant. I’m almost always drunk on the job. Hahahaha 😂
Yo. I'd like to join to the pellet factory ..is it hard job?
We do not have these in Australia. I find it very interesting - looks expensive
It is a pity that no-one in Australia has thought of vacuuming all of the floor of the State Forests, and doing something similar. This could be a great enterprise, and would also reduce the fuel - and potential for Bush Fires.
oh! so the wood is broken up and laminated back together!! its like cross laminating but without the cross cuts. you just smoosh it together, but in this case, its smooshed together with other things so it stays intact and can burn!! i love learning abt wood processes :]
At least I know why the pallet of pellets that I bought from Lowes had so much dust in them!
Its a shame the stoves arent really repairable. Its hard to find controller boards and sensors and tgey clog and break easily.
You know anything about Arduino mini computers/controllers? They are small cheap and relatively easy to program.
One could be used to control your stove.
They can be used as controllers for washing machines/dryers/furnaces/etc.
They can be used to control your car's engine...a guy in UK has a YT channel on it... "Making for Motorsports"
I am working in waste management facility. And we have around 20 thousand wood waste, which we turning into the wood chips, so any suggestions where we can sell it?
Unless it's converted to pellets, it could be difficult to sell waste wood products outside ones country. You can look for local processors.
Nice
How much POWER does the factory USE to create compressed wood crap they con you into???????
Wood pellets are a good way to use energy but the amount of processing and transportation costs is still not as clean as just burning wood.
Everyone’s area is different. In most states it’s free or cheap permit to cut dead trees on state and federal land
And the only costs is gas running a chainsaw.
Wood pellets require gas to run a chainsaw plus all these machines to dry it. Compress it and transport it
Way more costs
can you use wood pellets in a normal wood burning appliance though?
With some modifications...and caution
It's a good think they blurred out PW pellets.
Wood pellet smokers are great.
If the prices keep going up and up, like they been, then I won't be buying anymore.
man,i have in my town ,a big pellet factory ,10 m from my house,it makes such large noise,the factory itself and the machines,trucks etc. and the dust and dirt it generates, it like Chernobyl vol.2, currently we are suing the town and the plant,
NO Smoking within 5 miles of that refinery🤣
REMINDS ME OF THE KINGSBORO GRILL FOR COAL B RICKS
whoa
WOOD PELLETS ARE A WASTE BY-PRODUCT, NO TREES ARE HARMED.
Grass greener on the other side of the fence? Last year a neighbor replaced his firewood stove w/a pellet stove & I suggested he keep his traditional wood stove ... he was glad he did. Pellet stoves are pretty to look at; easier on the home owner's insurance $; but not BTU or cost effective; & when electricity goes out so does the pellet stove ... and so does a secondary cook top.
I'm pretty sure I've seen pellet stoves that would run on 12 volt batteries for the electronics. Or just get a big battery backup unit and plug it into that.
@@jeffwood8109 Hmmmmm?
@@mikefreeman3772 you're saying if the power goes out. The electronics probably run on 12 volts or less. I think I saw something years ago that would solve the power issue if the power goes out, as an option for the stove. But if there isn't, a battery backup for a computer would probably keep that stove running for a while, depending on the size of the batteries in the backup system. Don't know about the other stuff as far as BTUs etc just talking about how to power the electronics of the stove in the event of a power outage.
started burning pellets in early 2000. they were 2 bucks a bag and 1.65 if you bought by the ton. in 2024 im paying 7 bucks a bag.
A lot of energy...😱
What are the binding substances used for a proper structure of the pellet..
He said the sap holds it together
No binders used. When the material is forced thru the pellet die, the temperature rises to melt the lignins and sugars into a hard external layer.
Orang yang gagal akan nampak kesusahan pada setiap peluang, manakala orang yang optimis akan nampak peluang dalam setiap kesusahan
💜
Now, is there a way to get this effect with salt and heat?! Heating the salt water (dried to heat a salt state, then into molten salt...) better heat retention?? Plus, utilizing the desalination process... yum
Since we are going to be running out of clean water soon... ooof scary times...
Large Biomass plants for electricity and heat to sell to on the open market can be horrible for the environment.
Thousands of acres of hardwood trees in the southern and south east US are clearcut to make wood pellets that get shipped to Europe.
Biomass is a scam, always has been.
Which are then immediately replanted..
Avísenle a la empresa que imprime las bolsas, que se escribe APROBADA, y no aproVada.
Saludos cordiales.
Are some brands of pellets better than others? Is so and I assume so how would I know?
It is going to be burned. So buy the cheapest product. Shalom
PELITS FOR FERTILIZER /ELECTRIC TO HYYDRTOGEN FUEL FROM WATER
I never knew about a wood pellet stove. The only wood pellets I knew was a type of cat litter.
Greenway hardwood pellets is the best
I had one for many years the reason I got rid of my Pellet stove Waze towards the end I need a premium Pellet it would burn and give off heat was getting harder and harder to find the manufacturers are not drying The way they use they make more Ash now then heat
seems like it requires a lot of energy input to get pellets. seems like the net energy consumption just wouldn't be efficient compared to burning firewod.
Wood pellets are a waste by-product. If not used for this it would just end up in our landfills. It is making use of pieces of wood that otherwise would serve no purpose. Shalom
its actually better than burning wood, no cutting and pellets are waste so double win.
those pellet stoves and pellets are expensive now in 2022. The only ones I saw had to be plugged in. you'll be in trouble if the power goes out in the winter unless you have a solar/wind/gas generator. I still want one, but I want a wood stove too. "How It's Made" played a part in the rising popularity. LOL I never knew about these types of stoves until I watched this years ago. LOLOL
Simply get a deep cycle battery and a power inverter.
This is much the same process as that used to make alfalfa pellets, down to the drying drum, hammer mill, and (California?) pellet mill. I expect the technology was transferred and modified for wood pellets.
What is the price per kg of Alfalfa Pellets?
@@sariseptianti2304 I worked alfalfa dehys 50 years ago, at which time it was a huge industry in Nebraska. Most of the product went to Europe. The company I worked for had its own barges on the Missouri/Mississippi rivers and ocean-going ships to get it there.
A quick search found a current bulk purchase quote for what amounted to $0.49/kg (24 imperial tons minimum order.) I also saw 23kg bags retail (horse feed) for $1.43/kg.
@@sariseptianti2304This is my third try to respond to your question. Uboob keeps disappearing it for some reason.
I worked summers at alfalfa dehys 50 years ago. Alfalfa pellets were a huge industry in Nebraska at that time. Most of the product went to Europe. The company I worked for had its own barges on the Missouri/Mississippi rivers and ocean-going ships to get it there. Since then the industry has largely disappeared.
To answer your question re: current prices, I found a bulk-price quote out of Kansas (24 imperial tons minimum) for about $0.49/kg. Also, I found 23kg bags (horse feed) retail at $1.43/kg.
@@sariseptianti2304 This is my fourth try to respond to your question. Uboob keeps disappearing it for some reason.
I worked summers at alfalfa dehys 50 years ago. Alfalfa pellets were a huge industry in Nebraska at that time. Most of the product went to Europe. The company I worked for had its own barges on the Missouri/Mississippi rivers and ocean-going ships to get it there. Since then the industry has largely disappeared.
To answer your question re: current prices, I found a bulk-price quote out of Kansas (24 imperial tons minimum) for about $0.49/kg. Also, I found 23kg bags (horse feed) retail at $1.43/kg.
This is my third try to respond to your question. Uboob keeps disappearing it for some reason.
I worked summers at alfalfa dehys 50 years ago. Alfalfa pellets were a huge industry in Nebraska at that time. Most of the product went to Europe. The company I worked for had its own barges on the Missouri/Mississippi rivers and ocean-going ships to get it there. Since then the industry has largely disappeared.
To answer your question re: current prices, I found a bulk-price quote out of Kansas (24 imperial tons minimum) for about $0.49/kg. Also, I found 23kg bags (horse feed) retail at $1.43/kg.@@sariseptianti2304
This has a 1995 video vibe.
Forget battery cars, pellet power!
Wooden pellets are actually horrible for the environment. I recommend you watch the CBS Mornings report on wood pellets, it’s very insightful.
I'm a simple woman.
I see a new episode of how it's made, I click and enjoy
So green
Pellets are not cheap anymore . In Portugal last year 3.79 per 15kg now 8.99. 15kg . So very expensive
It's just a giant pasta maker for wood!