Cat litter recommendations

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Ade C

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Just received my cheapo woodgas stove after reading about them on here. I'm planning on running it on wood pellet cat litter but anyone recommend a particular brand as I think some has glue in?
 

Robson Valley

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Where did the wood pellets come from? I burn 10,000 lbs per winter to heat my home.
I have done this for more than a decade. About 60% the cost of furnace oil.

Best here are SPF from Premium Pellet. Dougfir costs more for very little heat improvement.
I ask as Canada is a major source for pellets in Europe (and the UK?)

They have to be kept ultra dry. Once uncovered, even the bagged stock will pick up enough room humidity
that they burn poorly when 6 months old. I predict you will be disappointed if the pellet bag is not sealed tight
between uses. Damp, their fuel value is rubbish but still OK for the cat.

Pinnacle Pellet tried to scam everybody here 2-3 winters ago by selling pellet fuel stock with 5% sand.
Ash weights shot up. Mix with water and the sand settled out! I knew something was wrong with the
ash weight, first time I cleaned the stove. By then, big users were on the warpath.
I burned a ton then we all went back to Premium brand.
 

Ade C

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It's only a small camping stove which will take about a handful for about an hour's burn. I'll just try a couple of brands as it's very cheap for a bag.
 
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bopdude

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I buy the Tesco stuff, 4Kg bag iirc, lasts me forever taking a dog poo bag full out with me gives a good long slow burns and weighs next to nothing.
 

Ade C

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DSC_0890.jpgWent to BM bargains in the end. 5 litres for £1.29 and as you can see it burns fine. A small handful gave about 30 minutes so filling up would easily be over an hour I'd have thought
 
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Monikieman

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if you can find a wood pellet place for bio flue they might be even cheaper, but if you can sneak it under the vegetables in the trolley at tesco, it comes out of a different 'budget' and is therefor free:)
 

Paul_B

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Do you mean when you accidentally forget there's something heavy on the underneath shelf of the trolley when you go through the checkout and only find out when loading into your car the feeling too embarrassed to take it back to pay for it. Again! Do you mean that kind of budget?

Never done that myself (more than a few times) honest!
 
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Ade C

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Blimey I thought I was tight but even I think just over a quid for several hours' worth of fuel is good value!
There's always sticks off the floor when the spiralling economy forces us back to hunter gathering
 

Robson Valley

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Here I sit, burning 35 - 45kg per 24hrs in the cold. And you need a handful?
It arrives as a 48" cube on a pallet, 50 x 40lb bags. Somehow, they get fluffed up
between the street and my downstairs kitchen, the stack becomes a 72" cube.

Thanks for the picture in P#8. How sooty is the flame?
My pellet stove has active air flow which runs like a small forge.
Never soot or charcoal.
 

Robson Valley

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Oh yeah, my stove is just a little bigger.
The bin on the back holds 100lbs or 2+ 40lb bags of pellets.
Yet the fire is no more than 6" wide x 2" front to back.

For your price, with dry pellets, must be a real convenience to operate.

I tried to use pellets as cat little one time.
I thought she was going to pee in the bed, just to get even with me.
 

Robson Valley

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I make a lot of wood shavings in the process of wood carving.
There are days when the cat appears to study the piles.
That all would not last 20 minutes in the pellet stove.

In the meantime, my wood pellet stove is eating 40kg+ /24hrs.

I buy cat sand = clay, laced with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
which is entirely suitable to her highness.
 

Toddy

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We tried burning sawdust, it's a flare up and then an airless clump of a mess. The cat pellets are like mini logs :)

If you want to use it look up how to make briquettes. Once made they can be smashed apart into lumps that work like mini coals.

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