We bought 2 ton this year at $162.00 per ton thought we would try them, we had some HUGE clunkers for a while with our new stove a Breckwell (The BIG E) but it only lasted a couple weeks and cleaned up, the burn pot has been clean, I scrape the pot every 5-7 days with just a small amount of residue and wash the glass. the stove heats 1800 square feet and this winter we burned 2.5 ton of pellets.
I have a Harman pellet stove and ran out of the other brand pellets I’ve been using and purchased a ton of Purcell pellets. They are awful. Can’t wait to burn them all out. The heat output is ok but the ashes are way out of control. I Have a 3-4 inch high clump of ashes after each bag. The ash pan fills completely with ashes after 3-4 days. Would never buy Purcell again.
I have a Harman pellet stove and ran out of the other brand pellets I’ve been using and purchased a ton of Purcell pellets. They are awful. Can’t wait to burn them all out. The heat output is ok but the ashes are way out of control. I Have a 3-4 inch high clump of ashes after each bag. The ash pan fills completely with ashes after 3-4 days. Would never buy Purcell again.
I can see by the other comments Percell Has a few growing pains to go through.The ton I bought was wet. Every bag had about 20% fines and many had expanded and crumbled when handled. Perhaps two wraps of plastic around the pallet would help. I can not say if the moisture is the result of condensation, but every bag was wet or moist as i removed them from the pallet. The other brand I have been using for the past 7 years have been flawless (North Idaho). With North Idaho I clean the fire pot once a year. The Percell pellets require constant attention or the fire pot plugs up and the stove shuts down. The dust plugs the auger which really taps into my dark side. I am certain the science behind pellet making is well known. So, with a little more attention to details I am sure the kinks can be worked through. My stove is a Kozy Furnace.
Quadra Fire insert This is my 3rd yr to use your pellets, I never had any real bad complaints other than more klinkers than Lignetics or North Idaho, but this yr they have been much larger in size some up to 2″. I have had to unclog my auger several times and have had to throw them out . They bridge in the auger and clog it up, I have to break up the pellets with with a chopper before putting them into my stove . Way to much work! They are also very dark in color compared to the light tan they have been, could explain the black soot I have . Go back to your original pellets
My bought my Quadrafire 7 yrs ago. This year local dealers could not get Rockie Canyon Pellets so I bought Purcell – BIG ERROR. Yes, the clunkers every 3 days are the size of a large gopher and ash 3-4 cups. Rockie Canyon every 7 days quarter size and ash 1-2 cups. Talk with the store of purchase and maybe they will replace with a better product available. Next year Rockie Canyon!
I’ve burned just under a ton in a Quadrafire 1200i. While the heat output is high and the ash is low, they produce 2 inches of clinkers in my fire pot in under a week. They’re the first pellet I’ve ever burned that requires me to clean my stove more than once every 7 days. I had to pry the clinkers loose with a screwdriver and break them up into smaller pieces for my vacuum to handle them. Not happy with these.
Very dirty. Does not burn as hot as advertise. My wife bought these by accident. With 4 bags we had to scrape all the time to get a brand new stove up and running. With other pellets no problem.
We recently purchased six tons of pellets for our quadra fire stove. This is by far and above the WORSE purchase ever made. Each and every bag produces HUGE clunkers to the point that I have to clean and restart every day. Our stove is not old and yes, on some occasions with other pellets we have a few, but very few, clunkers. VERY VERY UNHAPPY
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We bought 2 ton this year at $162.00 per ton thought we would try them, we had some HUGE clunkers for a while with our new stove a Breckwell (The BIG E) but it only lasted a couple weeks and cleaned up, the burn pot has been clean, I scrape the pot every 5-7 days with just a small amount of residue and wash the glass.
the stove heats 1800 square feet and this winter we burned 2.5 ton of pellets.
I have a Harman pellet stove and ran out of the other brand pellets I’ve been using and purchased a ton of Purcell pellets. They are awful. Can’t wait to burn them all out. The heat output is ok but the ashes are way out of control. I Have a 3-4 inch high clump of ashes after each bag. The ash pan fills completely with ashes after 3-4 days. Would never buy Purcell again.
I have a Harman pellet stove and ran out of the other brand pellets I’ve been using and purchased a ton of Purcell pellets. They are awful. Can’t wait to burn them all out. The heat output is ok but the ashes are way out of control. I Have a 3-4 inch high clump of ashes after each bag. The ash pan fills completely with ashes after 3-4 days. Would never buy Purcell again.
I can see by the other comments Percell Has a few growing pains to go through.The ton I bought was wet. Every bag had about 20% fines and many had expanded and crumbled when handled. Perhaps two wraps of plastic around the pallet would help. I can not say if the moisture is the result of condensation, but every bag was wet or moist as i removed them from the pallet. The other brand I have been using for the past 7 years have been flawless (North Idaho). With North Idaho I clean the fire pot once a year. The Percell pellets require constant attention or the fire pot plugs up and the stove shuts down. The dust plugs the auger which really taps into my dark side. I am certain the science behind pellet making is well known. So, with a little more attention to details I am sure the kinks can be worked through. My stove is a Kozy Furnace.
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This is my 3rd yr to use your pellets, I never had any real bad complaints other
than more klinkers than Lignetics or North Idaho, but this yr they have been
much larger in size some up to 2″. I have had to unclog my auger several times and have had to throw them out . They bridge in the auger and clog it up, I have to break up the pellets with with a chopper before putting them into my stove . Way to much work!
They are also very dark in color compared to the light tan they have been, could explain the black soot I have . Go back to your original pellets
My bought my Quadrafire 7 yrs ago. This year local dealers could not get Rockie Canyon Pellets so I bought Purcell – BIG ERROR. Yes, the clunkers every 3 days are the size of a large gopher and ash 3-4 cups. Rockie Canyon every 7 days quarter size and ash 1-2 cups. Talk with the store of purchase and maybe they will replace with a better product available. Next year Rockie Canyon!
I’ve burned just under a ton in a Quadrafire 1200i. While the heat output is high and the ash is low, they produce 2 inches of clinkers in my fire pot in under a week. They’re the first pellet I’ve ever burned that requires me to clean my stove more than once every 7 days. I had to pry the clinkers loose with a screwdriver and break them up into smaller pieces for my vacuum to handle them. Not happy with these.
Very dirty. Does not burn as hot as advertise. My wife bought these by accident. With 4 bags we had to scrape all the time to get a brand new stove up and running. With other pellets no problem.
Purchase 2 tons of these pellets. They burn dirty, more ash than I am use to and not as hot as my usual pellets. Not happy with these pellets.
We recently purchased six tons of pellets for our quadra fire stove. This is by far and above the WORSE purchase ever made. Each and every bag produces HUGE clunkers to the point that I have to clean and restart every day. Our stove is not old and yes, on some occasions with other pellets we have a few, but very few, clunkers. VERY VERY UNHAPPY