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Wood Pellets - Suppliers

  • 10-12-2010 07:10PM
    #1
    Alibear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 487 ✭✭


    I'm looking to buy wood pellets for horse bedding in bulk (must be in bags though, I don't want to buy it loose) - Does anyone know of a good supplier who will deliver to Tipperary?


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  • #2
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Alibear wrote: »
    I'm looking to buy wood pellets for horse bedding in bulk (must be in bags though, I don't want to buy it loose) - Does anyone know of a good supplier who will deliver to Tipperary?

    Would wood chip not be a much cheaper and better alternative to pellets. Pellets are dry, hard and uncomfortable for animals to lie on and they have almost zero soakage - and then there's the price - can be over EUR200 per ton in bags.


  • #3
    Alibear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 487 ✭✭Alibear


    I started using it recently and have found it very effective. You actually soak the pellets with a bit of water, and they expand, causing them have a sawdust/sand like appearance.

    They are extremely absorbent in comparison to the wood shavings I was using previously - No smell of ammonia, and excellent absorbency. €200 a tonne sounds like very good value, in comparison to what the bags of woodshavings cost.

    The wood pellets seem like better value *so far*; I paid a little over €5 per 15kg bag from a farm store to try them out, and I'm going through much less than the woodshavings.


  • #4
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Alibear wrote: »
    I started using it recently and have found it very effective. You actually soak the pellets with a bit of water, and they expand, causing them have a sawdust/sand like appearance.

    They are extremely absorbent in comparison to the wood shavings I was using previously - No smell of ammonia, and excellent absorbency. €200 a tonne sounds like very good value, in comparison to what the bags of woodshavings cost.

    The wood pellets seem like better value *so far*; I paid a little over €5 per 15kg bag from a farm store to try them out, and I'm going through much less than the woodshavings.

    Never heard of anyone doing that before ;)
    1250kg Bulk Bags of Wood Pellets


    1 x 1250kg bulk bag : € 293.75per bulk bag (€ 235.00 per tonne) Add to Basket



    PLEASE NOTE

    Deliveries of bulk bags of wood pellets can only be made if

    1 . You have a forklift or tractor to offload the bags with OR

    2. You have a tarmacadam or concrete surface for the buk bag to be unloaded onto

    http://www.kbf.ie/fuels/wood-pellets

    Nice people to deal with. I found them very helpful with anything that I bought from them in the past. They will deliver to your door.


  • #5
    Alibear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 487 ✭✭Alibear


    Thank you Reilig :)
    reilig wrote: »
    Never heard of anyone doing that before

    I've found it to be excellent so far :)


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