Should I choose to burn woodor wood pellets?
This is a question of personal preference. Burning wood in a central heating boiler such as the units sold by Blodgett requires some degree of interaction by the homeowner: acquisition of the wood, splitting, stacking, handling, frequent fueling of the wood boiler, and ash removal. Depending upon how you engineer a pellet boiler, most of this entire process can be automated; that is, pellets can be delivered to your remote storage unit, and then automatically fed to your Woodpecker as needed. Unless you own a woodlot and gather and treat your own firewood, we expect pellets to be cheaper in the long run. Pellet boilers are also true year-round central heating units (commonly heat and hot water), whereas wood boilers are primarily winter only appliances.
