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Constructing a Tank for Wood Pellets is pretty straightforward and you don't need any specialised tools, just some strong wood, a dry area for the wooden tank to sit in and a prominent position for more wooden pellets to be dropped.
Here's a typical oil tank made of cast-iron steel and sitting in the basement area of the house:
After removing the tank - This is a big job by the way, you'll need a good saw for cutting steel, earplugs and proper preparation for removing and draining oil from the tank. There are specific chemicals you can add to the tank to
ensure that the remaining oil left in the bottom of the tank is not flammable.
Here is a complete wood pellet container made out of wood and MDF which will hold 1000 kilograms in weight of pellets. This replaced the oil tank container above. This also gives you the opportunity to paint your room and sell off the old steel from the oil tank to a scrap dealer!
As this is positioned next to the window it allows us to construct another wood type chute for filling up the container with more pellets.
How It Works
A steel pipe containing a large metal 'cork-screw' is inserted from your heating furnace at a steep angle into the side of the container, when this screw rotates upwards it draws up the pellets then they drop into the burner and thus heat the furnace.
This is automated and the furnace operates the screw when it needs more pellets.
Pellet Tank Construction
Constructing a pellet tank is fairly straight forward and what you are creating is basically a very strong box to hold 1000 kilos of pellets. Insert some angled panels within the box to help the pellets slide towards the pipe.
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