The need to produce wood pellets for home use is rising in fast rate day after day courtesy of the rising cost of readymade wood pellets from the stores. If you want to cut on your spending on the amount of cash you use every year to purchase commercially produced pellets, buying your portable pelleting mill is a step in the right direction. There are various types of pellet mills in the market, made to suit different functions. There are those that have been made for domestic use while others are strictly designed for commercial purposes.

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If you are planning to buy a portable pellet mill, you have to do your own research on different machines. Decide which one will is likely to suit your needs best to avoid making a wrong choice. If, for instance, you are looking for a machine for commercial reasons, you need to get a machine with high production capacity and minimal power consumption. On the other hand your need could be a portable pellet machine for producing your own wood pellets for heating your house it is generally recommended that you try to acquire a pellet mill with portable provisions.  

Main Parts: Die and Roller



The most popular design of portable pellet mill used for many homes is the flat die pellet mill. It integrates one of the simplest designs from early 20th century when the machines for making pellets were first introduced. The benefit of using a portable flat die pellet-making machine is that it is much smaller and generally light in weight when compared to the other types. This makes it to more portable. Farmers have used portable pellet mills for so many years to produce feed pellets for their livestock. The most recent portable pellets have been designed to process biomass as a source of fuel for industrial and domestic purposes.

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The issue of weight of the portable pellet machine is very important. For commercial purposes, a pellet mill does not necessarily need to be light. The benefit of having a portable pellet mill is that you can easily carry the mill from one place to another, especially if you do not want to haul the pelletizing material to one location for processing. This gives you an added benefit, where you are not just limited to making your own pellets for fuel, but you can as well carry it to different places around your neighborhood and make pellets for your neighbors for some extra money.