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I like the line about the line about how to help the poor.
It bugs me that some think that big is always evil. Some small business are very evil as are some very big ones but the really bigs one are not as often all evil as some want them to be, even the worst ones seldom are ALL EVIL. kt
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"Some small business are very evil as are some very big ones but the really bigs one are not as often all evil as some want them to be,"
Great point. It's all about individuals. Good individuals make good organizations; lousy ones make lousy ones. The big secret is that almost everyone is good, while we're taught to believe that almost everyone is lousy.
The problem arises when decade after decade, the good get punished while the lousy get rewarded. Then there becomes a strong dis-value in being good. Subsidize crackheads and you'll have more of them. Punish success and you'll have less of it. Glorify poverty and you'll have more of it. And on and on...this ain't rocket science.
"even the worst ones seldom are ALL EVIL. kt"
Another good point. After all, they had to bring some value to some rational people, right?. To me, that's the opposite of evil in a social context.
But villify rationality and demonize personal values, and soon you get odd combinations of sensible producers and worthless scumbags. Eventually, the scumbags win out. This is the nature of a mixed economy like ours, and why we're currently in a heap of trouble. jk
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pelletfarmer, what kind of crop is "pellets"? Don't know much about raising rabbits but them and goats have pellets. kt
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I assumed woodpellets. My business is located in the Saginaw area and my daughter graduated from Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant. I assume pelletfarmer is located close by. So, Howdy neighbor.
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Hey neighbor, though your handle threw me off. You're a flatlander, not a yooper!
You're both close. I've been interested in wood pellets and furnace corn since moving near West Branch a couple years ago. The only crop on my land so far, are the trees out back, hence the name. I just gotta figure out how to harvest 'em!
OTOH we've got more than a bit of manure and bedding that we're composting, so kt isn't far off either. I just didn't think "manurefarmer" would play real well, though probably some here think it'd be about right. jk (Jim Klein)
Edited by Murf to make 'PG' rated. 
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We looked at doing pellets too, there's some new (cheaper) small scale equipment out there to turn sawdust into pellets.
Problem is still labour, on a small scale the labour costs make the pellets more expensive to produce than you can buy them from the 'big boys' for.
There's a guy near me here who has a novel slant on things though, he made a set of forms himself that produce blocks of compressed sawdust about the size of a bar of soap. He burns these blocks in a wood-burning furnace. Still, if you factor in his time to produce the equipment, and the blocks themselves, he's probably really only reducing his cost of disposing of the sawdust itself.
A good multi-fuel stove will burn wood chips or sawdust directly, so why bother even trying to make pellets for your own use?
Best of luck.
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Murf,
I sometimes gather up sawdust and bark droppings from the cutting area and put it in paper grocery sacks. Simply stuff one in the firebox and light it...no mess. It's a good way to get rid of it and start fires too.
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All true points, Murf. That's why I'm on the computer instead of selling pellets!
Still, there's a market for pellets, and corn as pellet fuel ain't quite dead yet. And then, it turns out that softwood pellets for bedding is pretty convenient, far more than shavings at similar cost. There are a lot of horse owners who don't care too much about cost anyway; convenience is a high value to them.
Meanwhile I've got trees that are going down by the day because nobody's building anything, while I gotta buy heat pellets that are going up by the day because nobody's building anything. Story of my life. jk
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Guess it still relates to wind mills along the thought of alternate fuels but, would not blowing saw dust into a fire create a very hot heat? Not sure how hard or costly that would be compared to making sawdust into blocks or pellets. kt
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Kenneth, that's precisely how most 'modern' burners work, though in fact very few of them have a blower, they use the heat of the air rising up the chimney to create enough vacuum to make a real draft and then direct it straight into the base of the fire.
Jim, just get a good multi-fuel stove, like the Sedore, and just burn the wood as chips. My neighbour cuts a tree down in the morning, chips it, and burns it that night, no problem.
Likewise, any decent multi-fuel stove will burn corn, even the cobs!!
Best of luck.
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