Cop Car commented on yesterday's post, "Gee...you're taking it easy with moving the pellets, aren't you? I feel that I've done a good bit of work just toting a couple of banker's boxes full of paper up from the basement and you, blithely, write of moving tons. Well...it's not the 5 or 6 tons of yesteryear."
So, I have moved more tonnage of pellets this year than the little over a ton I moved yesterday, I just didn't write about it. In early August, I cleaned out the garage. During that time, I moved a bit of tonnage from the garage to the basement.
This is the left wall of the garage. Looks like th partial pallet beside the blue tarp is 4 high plus another partial row, so at least 20 bags for 800 pounds. I can count at least 16 rows on the tall pile on the right which equals 80 bags or 3,200 pounds.

This picture is taken from the door into the basement - there was just enough room at that time I could fit my mower between the piles of pellets in the middle and the wall on the right (out of frame). The green-wrapped pallet is a full ton of pellets and just behind it is another partial pallet (I can see two layers, so that is 10 bags = 400 pounds).

Unfortunately I didn't take "after pictures", but you can see that the garage had a lot less pellets in it in this picture I took when painting

What you can't see are any of the pellets up against that left wall, nor the partial pallet of pellets between the blue trashcan and the mower handle way back there.
After moving a little over a ton into the basement yesterday, I have 3 tons in the basement. There is a grand total of 55 bags left in the garage. That is a total of 4 tons which is a couple tons shy of what I like to keep on hand. I may have to rectify that, or I may just let it go and see what happens over the winter.
Oh, and as for how much I've moved over the years - Unfortunately I didn't start keeping track of what I've burned until the 2016/2017 winter. That means I missed out counting the biggest usage winters of 2014/2015 & 2015/2016. But up to the end of last winter, I've used just under 35 tons - and most of those tons were handled multiple times (load into vehicle, unload into garage, move to basement, move to stove).

Sorry Cop Car, I'm not putting in a category for pellets so that summary chart will just have to do.
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