Hi from Hayward, WI

[pelletmaker]

I'm Jerry brown age 70 marketing manager for GLRE Lumber Jack grilling wood pellets. I would like to answer any and all questions you folks may have that you want answered by an actual plant that makes wood pellets. I know a lot of the plants don't like answering technical questions etc. but we do, it brings us closer to what we need to do to make you guys happy. Look me up at www.bbqgrillingpellets.com read the stuff and ask away. Looking forward to hearing your technical questions or any questions.

[Doug S.]

[MossyMO]

Great to see you you here Jerry, welcome to Smoked-Meat!
This is going to be your kind of crowd; great group here, I think you will fit right in!

[Bassman]

Welcome to Smoked-Meat, Jerry. Glad to have you here.

[pelletmaker]

MossyMo Thanks for recommending this site, it looks like the one i been looking for! If these guys are nice as you have been it will be a pleasure to be here. Thanks again!
Jerry

[Texas-Hunter]

Welcome aboard Jerry.. I myself dont use a pellet pooper or pucker.. But many here do and I am sure they may have some questions.. It's good to see a company like yours that wants to attack these questions head on in lieu of avoiding them.. Kudos to you and the company you work for..

Tip of the hat to yeah..

[Fishawn]

Jerry

[Rednose]

Welcome aboard Jerry.. I myself dont use a pellet pooper or pucker.. But many here do and I am sure they may have some questions.. It's good to see a company like yours that wants to attack these questions head on in lieu of avoiding them.. Kudos to you and the company you work for..

Tip of the hat to yeah..

Jerry. X2^ Lookin' forward to learnin' some stuff about pellets.
Spent many a weeks on Round Lake back in the '60's. I hear things have changed quite a bit.

[SmokinOutBack]

Nice of you to drop in and field questions.

[pelletmaker]

Ken
That's music to my ears, thanks! I lived in north Houston back in the 70's and early 80's for a little over 7 years. Some very special people there! Took basic training with Chuck King said he was from the Kings Ranch. I had no idea what the heck that was until I went to Padre Island, holy --- Toledo!

[pelletmaker]

I thought I would throw this out!
We actually take trees same as a paper-mill and chip the 8 'round logs then hog grind the chips then rotary dry them and then onto a finish grinder to proper size then to a temper tank which relaxes the fiber right before we squeeze them little bits at 40,000psi and 200 deg into a pellet. The technical side is the particle screen size, moisture content at the mill along with species formula percentages and amp setting on the mills themselves. The amps control the speed which along with many other aspects has the most to do with the length control. We can do about 80,000 tons per year so we won't run out anytime soon. All our stuff is 100% pure wood specie fiber with no additives of any kind-not even to help the flow through the dies. Typically the flavors as spelled out by most mfg's means a base percentage of a hardwood and another typical % of the flavor wood. A lot of people think this is to save money and have a cheap wood verses a expensive wood, not so it is for the sole reason that the users want each flavor to offer the same heat values so they don't have to constantly change their settings. A hickory tree costs the same as a maple tree or a oak tree etc. One exception is we have to import Mesquite and Pecan so in that case it is based around money I suppose but we don't reflect that we use the same percentage breakdown for each flavor-bet ya didn't know them apples?
In the 100% pellets or fiber we make Oak-Hickory-Maple and Cherry. We abort the fiber into tote bags right before it goes to the pellet mills so it is ground fiber of let's say Hickory when we run all hickory. If it goes further it is made into pellets and bagged. Right now were messing with dried wood chips for smokers.

[Richtee]

Hia Jerry...Welcome to Smoked-Meat. I have TJohnson's pellet model Amazin' Smoker, so I do use some small amounts of pellets.

I have met Bruce Daniel of Dream werks smokers... top notch stuff. I'll send him a link to this post...

[cajun_1]

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[barkonbutts]

Welcome from Dayton!! I am pellet popper!! and I am proud of it!!

[Slanted88]

Man...Pleasure to have ya here!