Pellet grill users. Gmg, traeger, etc .....

I'm looking to buy a pallet of pellets from Lumberjack. High quality pellets. 40# bags. Any interest in this ? Not a group buy as I'm buying the pallet and the pellets will be sold in the trading post. No obligation to purchase.
What flavors do you fellow pellet users like ? This lets me gauge what to bring in. I will also post the cost of the bags once they get back to me. It has to be a price much under what is available online or local in order to make this worth it. I have the space to store the 50 bags. I'm tired of spending around a buck a pound for just grilling. Winter is coming and the pellet consumption goes up as the outside temps drop. I use my gmg every day and want a better deal on pellets.

Mesquite and Hickory

I'm in for mesquite

Mesquite, applewood and oak. Whatcha thinking the cost will be per bag?

price per bag?

It's looking like right around $20 for a 40$ bag. $10 for a 20# bag.
At these prices, the Mesquite and the apple would be a "Blend" which means that the apple is mixed with oak. 100% apple and 100% mesquite is available at about a cost of $5 a bag or so more. . In doing my research today I found a local distributor that sells the 20# bags for $13. The best price I have found retail. I'm currently contemplating just buying from him and not having to worry about storing a ton of pellets. Literally, a pallet is 1 ton. In my pellet cooking experience (4yrs), I have found Lumberjack to be one of my favorites but could not find them anywhere as my source in lakewood quit selling them and sells just Traeger brand. I switched to cookingpellets.com and their pellets are fantastic, but also $38 for 40#. Have to decide if it is worth the effort and money down to get the ton of pellets then sell them.

This guy seems to have decent pricing and good product.
http://www.thewatershedinc.com/hardw...ng-pellets.htm

From my experience. Traeger has a lot of filler. Used them and not a big fan. GMG are a little better. I'd be interested in the Lumberjack pellets. I would pay more for 100% wood.

How many bags per pallet? 50(ish) bags?

At $20-$25, for a 40lb bag, I'd be in for 6-8 bags. I can't store more than that right now but use them pretty regularly.

Would it be too much to ask for contact info for you source? There's 5 Treager users in my family and I have several good friends that also have pellet grills. We could split a skid pretty easy.

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Originally Posted by Ah Pook

This guy seems to have decent pricing and good product.
http://www.thewatershedinc.com/hardw...ng-pellets.htm

From my experience. Traeger has a lot of filler. Used them and not a big fan. GMG are a little better. I'd be interested in the Lumberjack pellets. I would pay more for 100% wood.

How many bags per pallet? 50(ish) bags?

At $20-$25, for a 40lb bag, I'd be in for 6-8 bags. I can't store more than that right now but use them pretty regularly.

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Dave at the Watershed is a good guy, he does have good prices and may do a deal on large quantity's.
Thx for the reminder, I forgot about him.

Just bought a pellet smoker. Tag for more info and interest.

I really need to get myself a wood pellet grill. I keep putting it off.

Buff,
They (Lumberjack) will set me up as a dealer and that is how I got the pricing. They said they checked my area and would set me up as a dealer because there was not a dealer nearby. You may want to go on their website direct and fill out the form for pricing info and see if they will do the same for you being that you can easily divide up a pallet of pellets. You can mix and match on the pallet as far as flavors and bag size. Even if I am not able to bring in my pallet and use the pricing to my advantage, I'm glad I can pass on the info to fellow shooters and pellet users. With the current response, we could easily do a pallet. Not a group buy type of thing, but take it off line and work together on this. Kind of like the guys who run to colorado springs for the ammo can deals. First see if you can become a dealer with them to get the great pricing. If not, let me know and I can get setup and we can move forward. PM if needed and I hope I/we are not breaking the "group buy" rules here. Want to keep it more of a bbq guys helping out bbq guys and the only way to network such an interest is here.
Ah Pook, I got a bag of traeger when I got my first pellet grill. Thought they were good till I tried something else. I really like the Lumberjack for the price. Mainly I want a pellet that I can use for my higher temp cooks and not looking for a great smoke flavor. Like grilling steaks, chicken, burgers. Using the cookingpellets brand for all my grilling/smoking is getting expensive. More so when the cold temps start coming and the grill has to work harder to maintain temps.

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Originally Posted by ray1970

I really need to get myself a wood pellet grill. I keep putting it off.

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They are awesome and the flavor of the food is great. However, ask here before you buy. I have a traeger and a Green Mountain Grill with the wifi feature. Each has it's own quirks.

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Originally Posted by Buff

Dave at the Watershed is a good guy, he does have good prices and may do a deal on large quantity's.
Thx for the reminder, I forgot about him.

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Yes he is, and thinks along the same lines as most of us.

Update. got an email from lumberjack that they have an online company that sets up group buys for them. We place our orders online, pay, they ship it here to wherever we want. We show up and pick up our pellets. Easy. Or sounds really easy. Will know more about the and pricing in the morning. Lots of people doing it this way in other states.

Sweet.

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Originally Posted by colorider

Buff,
They (Lumberjack) will set me up as a dealer and that is how I got the pricing. They said they checked my area and would set me up as a dealer because there was not a dealer nearby. You may want to go on their website direct and fill out the form for pricing info and see if they will do the same for you being that you can easily divide up a pallet of pellets. You can mix and match on the pallet as far as flavors and bag size. Even if I am not able to bring in my pallet and use the pricing to my advantage, I'm glad I can pass on the info to fellow shooters and pellet users. With the current response, we could easily do a pallet. Not a group buy type of thing, but take it off line and work together on this. Kind of like the guys who run to colorado springs for the ammo can deals. First see if you can become a dealer with them to get the great pricing. If not, let me know and I can get setup and we can move forward. PM if needed and I hope I/we are not breaking the "group buy" rules here. Want to keep it more of a bbq guys helping out bbq guys and the only way to network such an interest is here.
Ah Pook, I got a bag of traeger when I got my first pellet grill. Thought they were good till I tried something else. I really like the Lumberjack for the price. Mainly I want a pellet that I can use for my higher temp cooks and not looking for a great smoke flavor. Like grilling steaks, chicken, burgers. Using the cookingpellets brand for all my grilling/smoking is getting expensive. More so when the cold temps start coming and the grill has to work harder to maintain temps.

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Hey thanks for the info, since I have a LLC it should be pretty straight forward ad since the only dealer within 25miles of my is in FoCo it should be "legit".....
I've going to visit Dave and see if he has a pretty deal on skid pricing. He's always treated me very well when I buy skids of ice melt. If I run into problems I'll shoot you a PM.

Thanks again

I have not been happy with the traeger pellets in my gmg. I've been buying them at costco, but the blend has an off smell...almost like plastic.

I hadn't heard of lumberjack. I'm going to give some a try.

Not turning this into a best pellet thread but I notice more soot when I crank the GMG up to 500˚, with the Traeger pellets.

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Originally Posted by Ah Pook

Not turning this into a best pellet thread but I notice more soot when I crank the GMG up to 500˚, with the Traeger pellets.

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I get that with a few different pellets.

No problem turning this into a pellet grill thread. We need one. Traeger pellets are a wood blend then they add flavor oils.
Soot with a gmg is caused by poor combustion. Check the seal around the fans. Also make sure your chimney cap is up high enough. Mine is as high as it will go. No soot. I lower it a tad when it's cold out. Pelletheads.com has provided me with a TON of info on troubleshooting my gmg. I recently added a Don Godke downdraft to my Daniel Boone. Improved the grill performance by a lot. Uses less pellets, more even temps and holds smoke in the grill a lot longer. Better smoke flavor. If you have a wifi gmg and are having problems with the wifi, it's a very common problem. I'm on my 4th controller in a years time and still have problems. Pretty much not using the wifi feature any more till they get it figured out. Their customer service is outstanding btw. Just having issues w the wifi.

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Originally Posted by colorider

Traeger pellets are a wood blend then they add flavor oils.

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Not true. Traeger uses the hardwood that's on the label for the flavor. Base wood is either oak or alder. They use a small amount of food-grade soybean oil to help lubricate the shredded wood fibers being forced through the press into pellet form.

http://youtu.be/9dm03LQuT5c

I called Dave at The Water Shed http://www.thewatershedinc.com/hardw...ng-pellets.htm he'll go $11.00/20# on any flavor of Lumber Jack pellets if you buy 20 or more bags.

It'll be interesting to see what Colo Rider gets for pricing going direct once shipping is added.

At that price, it's well worth getting it from Watershead and not having to deal with a pallet of pellets. With shipping it's going to be about 9 bucks a bag for 20# bags. And about 18 for a 40#. Time, money, and not having to deal with moving a pallet of pellets is well with a few more bucks a bag to me. Even if I have to drive to ft Collins to pick up a load of 20 bags or so. I also like helping out a local business.
when I decided to do a pallet, I didn't know these retailers existed.
May make a trip to ft Collins tomorrow depending on time.

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Originally Posted by Gman

Not true. Traeger uses the hardwood that's on the label for the flavor. Base wood is either oak or alder. They use a small amount of food-grade soybean oil to help lubricate the shredded wood fibers being forced through the press into pellet form.

http://youtu.be/9dm03LQuT5c

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Dont want this to turn into a Traeger bashing thread, but this is the info I got from a few Traeger dealers.

Several years ago I talked to the Traeger Wood Pellet Mill plant manager at their Oregon plant and ask very similar questions. His responses were the same as in Ruff's post above.

From our conversation:

Traeger has a patent on a process to extract the natural oils from wood.
This oil is then mixed with a food grade Soy oil and then sprayed on the wood fibers just prior to pressing into pellets.

NOTE: This is only done with Mesquite and Hickory pellets made specifically at the Oregon Plant and no others.

This process was developed to help keep the production cost down because of the transportation cost of Hickory and Mesquite woods to the Oregon plant.

I'll take the info from the manufacturer over some unsubstantiated info from a blog or forum. YMMV.

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Originally Posted by colorider

At that price, it's well worth getting it from Watershead and not having to deal with a pallet of pellets. With shipping it's going to be about 9 bucks a bag for 20# bags. And about 18 for a 40#. Time, money, and not having to deal with moving a pallet of pellets is well with a few more bucks a bag to me. Even if I have to drive to ft Collins to pick up a load of 20 bags or so. I also like helping out a local business.
when I decided to do a pallet, I didn't know these retailers existed.
May make a trip to ft Collins tomorrow depending on time.

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I agree, sometimes pay a little more to eliminate a hassle and supporting a local bizz that's pro 2A is worth it.
So far I'm already at 20bags between myself and two friends, I figure my family in Wyo along with a couple other friends will be over a skid when its all done. Then I'll squeeze Dave a little more now that I know he's paying about $9 a bag...[ROFL1]

I picked up some lumberjack pellets from a Denver dealer today, Steady Smoking BBQ. Close enough I can pick them up during a work break. $13/bag including tax.

Nice guy. Flying American flags out front. I think he had every kind except apple...because someone just purchase every bag of apple he had.

I picked up a bag of 80% hickory and 20% hickory charcoal...it gets much hotter apparently. Going to try that with the next smoked pizza I make. Looking forward to trying that.

The fruit wood blend is scheduled for a bunch of pork butt I'm smoking for my church potluck this weekend.

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Originally Posted by Gman

I'll take the info from the manufacturer over some unsubstantiated info from a blog or forum. YMMV.

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. I've used treager, till i went lower cost. Residual soot is close to equal. Looking forward to try some lj.

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Originally Posted by Gman

I'll take the info from the manufacturer over some unsubstantiated info from a blog or forum. YMMV.

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Info from the manufacturer that wants you to buy THEIR product, gotcha.

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Originally Posted by hurley842002

Info from the manufacturer that wants you to buy THEIR product, gotcha.

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Yeah, the guys promoting other brands in those discussions had no dog in that fight. Sure.

Should be no soot on the food. The dome and chimney may get soot, but food should not.

What I posted is from a local Traeger dealer. He ONLY sells Traeger pellets. Used to sell others but not any more.

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Originally Posted by hurley842002

Info from the manufacturer that wants you to buy THEIR product, gotcha.

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Yes they do........ Without pulling or a microscope and doing lab work Lumber Jack pellets are equal to Traeger but at less the cost.

Lumberjack has some pretty in depth chemical analysis of the smoke their woods create on their website. I haven't seen that anywhere else.

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From the research I have done, most main stream pellets use filler wood. Traeger, GMG, Louisiana Grill... Please fill me in on those with 100% woods.

Pook,
The ones I know that are 100% flavor wood and not a blend are as follows. The ones marked 100% whatever from Lumberjack and the cookingpellets.com 100% pure American Hickory. Lumberjack clearly marks their blends as a blend. They have several and they state it on their website and packaging. I have been a pellet user for over 5 years and have tried many brands. The ones I found to have an off taste were the traeger brand. Friends and family agree. They have kind of a burning candle aftertaste to me. For hickory smoking pork, I absolutely love the cookingpellets.com 100% hickory. Makes some amazing ribs. Another thing to look at with pellets is how much ash they leave. Some brands leave a whole bunch of ash in the burn pot. Some leave very little I take that into consideration too when choosing a pellet. Even more so when I am using the unit for more of a bbq and grill than a smoker. I hate cleaning the burn pot out. Louisiana Grill brand competition mix left a ton of ash in the pot for me. Pellets are kind of a person choice though. I don' t know how many of you own a motorcycle and visit cycle forums, but pellet forums are much like a "what oil should I use" on a moto forum. Everyone is different. However, on all the forums for pellet cooking the cookingpellets.com brand and the Lumberjack are the top 2 that people are using with positive results. Heat, flavor, and ash left over. Just from my few years of reading.
For those interested, here is a link to the Don Godke Downdraft that I just installed in my GMG Daniel Boone. The results with my grill have been more uniform temps at grate and dome level left and right, noticeable less pellet consumption, and a big difference in the amount of smoke flavor on the cooked food. Of course do your own google fu and see what others experiences have been.
http://dongodkesdowndraft.com/

Picked up 200# in a variety of flavors from Steady Smoking BBQ in Denver today. Mike is the owner and a super nice guy. $13 a bag. Also, he is a wealth of information about the different flavor profiles of the pellets. I'm going to skip bringing in a pallet at this time knowing that I can get them for this price. Great to have this thread going so we can share our pellet cooking information with each other. Doing 3 racks of ribs with the competition blend tonight. Will report on the results.. Grill on my good friends.

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Originally Posted by colorider

Pook,
The ones I know that are 100% flavor wood and not a blend are as follows. The ones marked 100% whatever from Lumberjack and the cookingpellets.com 100% pure American Hickory. Lumberjack clearly marks their blends as a blend. They have several and they state it on their website and packaging. I have been a pellet user for over 5 years and have tried many brands. The ones I found to have an off taste were the traeger brand. Friends and family agree. They have kind of a burning candle aftertaste to me. For hickory smoking pork, I absolutely love the cookingpellets.com 100% hickory. Makes some amazing ribs. Another thing to look at with pellets is how much ash they leave. Some brands leave a whole bunch of ash in the burn pot. Some leave very little I take that into consideration too when choosing a pellet. Even more so when I am using the unit for more of a bbq and grill than a smoker. I hate cleaning the burn pot out. Louisiana Grill brand competition mix left a ton of ash in the pot for me. Pellets are kind of a person choice though. I don' t know how many of you own a motorcycle and visit cycle forums, but pellet forums are much like a "what oil should I use" on a moto forum. Everyone is different. However, on all the forums for pellet cooking the cookingpellets.com brand and the Lumberjack are the top 2 that people are using with positive results. Heat, flavor, and ash left over. Just from my few years of reading.
For those interested, here is a link to the Don Godke Downdraft that I just installed in my GMG Daniel Boone. The results with my grill have been more uniform temps at grate and dome level left and right, noticeable less pellet consumption, and a big difference in the amount of smoke flavor on the cooked food. Of course do your own google fu and see what others experiences have been.
http://dongodkesdowndraft.com/

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Do you have the old style downdraft or the new style with the vent?

New with the vent. I'm doing my 1st long cook with it right now. 3racks of baby backs w 100% hickory. Will give a report when I eat them tomorrow. Already I have noticed the GMG is dumping pellets a lot less than without the downdraft and holding a steady temp. Mill report later if the smoke flavor is heavier using the downdraft. Before I was using an amazin tube for more smoke flavor. Not using it on this slow cook. I have the vent closed for this cook as per the instructions and everyone's comments about using it.