La Crete wood pellets are from laCrete Sawmills. They appear to be a 100% softwood pellet.
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Spruce
.3% ash
.2% fines
Summary
Aug 2017 -one of my favorites and best in the northeast! keep your eyes out for these. The bag is crap but the pellets are the Sh#@<br>
Nov 2017 – OK, the bag is not really that bad. Super awesome this year! highly recommend if you are a fan of the softwoods. These pellets burn super hot and low ash! Very nice, keep up the good work on these. Love the product.
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Fantastic La Crete Pellets
Recently tried La Crete pellets. Fantastic pellets. Burn slow and very hot. Future buyer for sure
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have been using La Crete for 3 years now- burn hot , low ash – runs all day and only clean out Harmon stove once a week
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Great burn... before the clinkers starve it of air.
Started using these pellets this year. They burn nice and hot with very little Ash compared to other brands.
My complaint however, is that they dirty up the burn pot itself. If I don’t scrape out hard black deposits once or twice a day the fire puts itself out as it blocks the air holes. This unfortunately results in me waking up to a cold house.
Just went through 5 bags of biopower for comparison and the flame was consistent without any intervention. It was considerably more Ash though. Pick your battle I guess.
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La Crete buring well for me
La Crete pellets burning well for us! Bought 4 pallets 2 and a half have been used, no clunkers, very low ash and no fines. Good heat and we find them to be outstanding and this is 2nd season using hem.
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Quality getting worst
Have to agree the quality of the pellets has fallen way off over the years ,Piazzetta Sabrina now need to clean the burning pot daily half full of dark crud . No difference noticed in heat output
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So much dust
This had been my go to pellet for the last 4 heating seasons. This year the quality has fallen way off. Every bag I open is full of dust. As I pour the pellets into my bucket there is a cloud of sawdust. The pellets themselves are no longer a consistent size. There are so many tiny little pieces of pellet in each bag that could only be measured in millimeters if you were to bother. Along with the tiny pieces there are a few pellets that are inches long. These have blocked my feed tube or gotten stuck and turned off my stove. My stove needs to be serviced now as the auger isn’t working, maybe coincidence. The stove itself has needed to be cleaned far more often this year. It has to be because in each bucket of pellets is so much more dust than in years previous. When they burn it is still a nice consistent flame, but I am not getting the burn time per fill that I had in years past. I have a metric ton still in the garage that I have to burn, but will be looking for a different pellet to finish off the year.
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La Crete wood pellets produce a lazy flame within 8-12 hrs of start up. They leave a lot of clunkers and dirty the pot quickly. Burned two tons in an Astoria Bay this winter, more work than enjoyment. I will not got back, quality has decreased after burning La Crete prior years.
Got 10 bags noticed this year they junk up my burn pot after 23 hours or so and get a lazy flame. Good heat but dirty. I use Olympus Doug fir. Soon as I switch hot small flame , not gunk in pot . Sabrina Piazzetta less than one year old with oak. Short pipe run. Wouldn’t recommend. Also they are granules not like the bigger normal size pellets. I think that makes them gunk up faster.
I’d say the quality has gone down. The bag still isn’t great. It leaves dust all over the house. We have a top feed stove and today I turned it off at 10am to clean it. Once cooled & cleaned I turned it back on. After 1.5hrs the house wasn’t warming up so I turned it up to level 2. By 3pm my flame is lazy and I should be turning it off again. We used Pinnacle (blue bag) pellets following the LaCrete fire and they actually are low ash, burn hot and we can go 36hrs without a lazy flame! The LaCrete pellets are crumb-med sized. I’d include a photo for prom but it won’t let me
Inconsistent is the best adjective for these. In 2014, they were great–burned hot and did not foul the burner– Could run all week without cleaning. My wife loved how they smelled. In 2015, the same brand would junk up the burner so I had to clean it out every 3 days. I use a EcoHeat Solutions EcoBoiler for central heat.