[Sirrotica]

The cherry pits burned fine, but the ash buildup was much more than the hardwood pellets that I'm buying manufactured in Kentucky. The cherry pits are also $2 a bag higher in price, $5.99 for the wood pellets, as opposed to $7.99 for the cherry pits. The cherry pits are supposed to be higher BTUs, but I really didn't notice much, if any, heat output gain. The ash buildup, along with the extra cost, pretty much cinches me sticking with the wood pellets. There is a place within 50 miles of me, near Eldora Speedway that has bulk cherry pits at $260 a ton in bulk, but I don't believe saving $40 a ton savings over the wood pellets is worth all the extra ash I'd be dealing with. Plus the round trip of 100 miles kind of negates any savings with a truck that gets about 8 miles to a gallon of gas.

I live right in the part of Ohio that farms corn on a huge scale, but I have yet to find anyone that sells it at a price that is close to wood pellets. $7.00 dollars a bag is as cheap as I've seen it advertised, and that's rare, most times it's $8.00 to $10.00 dollars a bag. I might forego the corn experiment with the reports of the clinker buildup from KSZR. I also had someone message me that said the same thing about corn, and clinkers. They also said that the corn exhaust was rather unpleasant when you were outside around the flue. Wood also has no objectionable smell when burned.