Colorado's Beetle Killed Lodge Pole Pine Trees.  Approximately 2 million acres in Colorado have been devastated by this little bug.   (Future Rocky Mountain Pellets)

 

Here is an aerial photo to show the log yard.  This is about a 4 month supply of raw material.

 

Loggers deliver the whole log to our yard where they wait to become a pellet.

 

Photo of the plant and finished product.  There are also whole logs in the background.

 

Palletized pellets and the plant.

 

General Plant Photos

 

The Morbark unit flails off the bark and chips the trees.

 

This is a pile of fresh chips that will soon head into the dryer.

 

The drum dryer dries the chips and reduces the moisture content.  It weighs 90,000 lbs.

 

We have 4 pellet mills that run 24/7.

 

The pellets are cooled in these coolers after they come out of the pellet mills.

 

Bags come in large rolls.

 

Our bags are filled upside down.

 

Bagged product on their way up the conveyor to be palletized.

 

View of the inside of the plant from the palletizer.

 

Palletizer stacks the bags on the pallets.

 

Pallet in the middle of the shrink wrap process.

 

Pallet on the shrink wrap machine.

 

Finished pallet ready to ship

 

Sheila can monitor and control all of the equipment from the computer.

 

Flatbed truck being loaded with pallets.  Notice the whole logs in the background.

 

Long distance picture of the plant and logs

 

Logs span from corner to corner of this picture.  At any time we have between 3 to 6 months supply of logs in our yard.