How to Make Wood Furnice Pellets
- 1). Make sure the sawdust is clean with no dirt, rocks or other foreign matter in it. Hardwood sawdust such as oak or ash make the hottest-burning pellets. The sawdust should be dry with less than 20 percent moisture content.
- 2). Switch on your pellet mill and wait a while until it warms up. The metal dies in the machine must be hot enough to turn the moisture in the sawdust to steam. The steam melts the natural lignin in the sawdust that becomes the pellet bonding agent.
- 3). Place a large box under the pellet mill's exit chute to catch the pellets as they are made. Slowly pour sawdust into the hopper of the mill. The pellets will start to come out of the exit chute almost as fast as you pour in the sawdust.
- 4). Finish pouring the last of the sawdust into the pellet mill and wait until all the pellets have come out of the exit chute. Allow the pellets to cool and they are ready to burn.
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