I am new to the board but have been following it for the last 3 years. Is anyone making their own pellets (wood or biomass) to use in their stoves? I have been making my own biomass pellets from cardboard, leaves, and even dried manure. Have a USC 6041 and still trying to get it dialed in after 3 years. Any ideas for keeping the 3"pel vent from filling with ash after 2 1/2-3 days use? I'm sure this is a result of the homemade pellets but still trying to cut down on frequent cleaning of the flue.

I have one of those chinese machines and it seems to do ok. I made pellets out of mixes... I have used oats fine chopped hay and high oil soybeans. I get alot of ash but I set the clean out blast to run with my rf2 on my 6220/6100. That stopped the plugging. I have a "T" clean out at the back of my stove and I have it hooked up to my ashvac. The ash pot still gets checked morning and night...retired and on the farm, it gives me something to do. Biomas its a life style.

I built my own pellet mill using the dies and rollers from a Chinese mill been making pellets on and off for 4 years. I make mine out of the cleanings and chaff from my grain cleaning business the most of the material comes from sunflowers lots of dust and fine particles and some larger stems. This is the easiest material i have found to pelletize. I have made pellets from grass, paper, corn cobs,etc. I also just purchased a Chinese oil press to press the oil out of the small seeds from cleaning the sunflowers and burn the oil in my tractors then pelletize the meal to burn in my boiler I have done a test run and both products worked great. Nothing better than to take a waste product turn it into 2 different fuel sources. I estimated that this year I will have close to 10 ton of cleaning material to pelletize from just my sunflower crop this year alone.