Corn burning Stove / Furnace

[Iceman1]

Just wondering if anyone out there is using a shelled corn burning stove or furnace as a method of heating. With the rise in cost of natural gas and propane I am looking into another means of heating the house and shop. Our last bill touched $280. #ad
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I have done numerous searches on the internet and come up with some good information. A good url was: Http://www.cornburner.com/


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[Jeff H]

Sort of the town secret. They have been making these stoves in are home town for a long time. I actually found about it this year. When the cost of oil and natural gas went up. So did the sales of corn burners of about 300 percent. As far as emissions they are the cleanest thing out there right now.
I think corn is selling for around a 1. 37 a bushel. Some people averaged burning around 60 to 70 bushels of corn during the winter. So a 100 dollars to heat the house for the winter is no joke its the real deal. The stoves are selling for 2000. 00 bucks. I would not bet on getting one this winter. Demand for them is very high.

 

[yogibear]

I don't think you burn the corn, do you? I think its the corn "cobs" isn't it?
Larry

 

[Bryan Brenneman]

A friend of mine burns corn. It is definately the corn kernel that burns not the cob. He has to use wood pellets to get the fire started and then the stove is auger fed from an attached hopper. He is a very small farmer, a hobby farmer I guess you could say so he doesn't have very large equipment. He grows his own corn and shells it with a used sheller he got a local sale and a 65 hp Belarus tractor. He says he's amazed how much power it took to run the sheller, couldn't run it with his 35hp Case. He then has a screen on an angle that he "sifts" the shelled corn with while a fan blows across the screen to blow away the fine cob particles left from shelling. The whole setup works good for him. That's about all I know.

Added in edit: Email me if you'd like his email address. I'm sure you could talk to him about it.


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[N8LHG]

Folks,

Is there a difference between a pellet burner and a corn burner? I have a pellet burner, but have not been able to find wood pellets this year due to a shortage. If I can burn corn, I just may keep the thing!

Mark



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Mark Wardell
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[Bob Wagner]

<font color=red>Do not burn corn in a stove designed for wood pellets! you are asking for problems if you do. </font> I assemble ignitor kits for wood pellet stoves.

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[Amianthus]

$300? I had a buddy of mine break the $500 mark for one month. I've heard through other people that some people's bills have hit the $700 mark. No wonder a recession is looming.

Wagner is right about the corn thing. If you put corn into a stove not designed for it you will wind up with a plugged up stove and a big pile of goo! That's dangerous! A corn capable stove has a rotating auger in the ash area that keeps rotating the mix to prevent plugging up of the stove. They will burn both wood and corn. But they are in very short supply.
I bought a wood stove for myself this year (price was right, had the splitter and saw, and still had wood left over from last residence). I saved myself $200 a month. One more heating season and it will be paid for. #ad
I love it!

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[The patriot]

A little bit off subject:
Does anybody have a coal stove? I' spoke with people that have a fairly large old house with little or no insulation, that uses very little coal to heat. He told me under a ton for the year!! I checked a few years back, and a ton was $125. 00- $150. 00. #ad
AND much easier to store than equal amount of wood.
I have a Vermont Castings that's capable of burning coal. I have used wood in it since new.

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[Doc Tinker]

What happens if you accidently fill that stove with pop-corn? #ad


Doc

 

[illflem]

Doc,you ever seen Jiffy-Pop. If you use pop-corn your stove will expand a few cubic inches with each use,this is good,now it can hold more fuel. Don't load too much pop-corn at once though,it may expand it's way up and out your chimney,your house may resemble a big air popper and you might get a bunch of neighborhood kids hanging out there. #ad


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[WOWZY]

HaHa Illflem!!

Just like that movie back in the 80's called "Real Genius".

 

[Iceman1]

Thanks all for the come back. I got the wife nervous now... If I could just find grand-dad's recipe we could use it in the summer too with some serious copper mod's. Will probably start looking real serious in May or June. Figure maybe that might be the time to find some on sale. Wonder how the recipe would mix with diesel.....

 

[Doc Tinker]

Hey Iceman, does white lightnin come out of a spiggot on that there stove?

Doc

 

[Iceman1]

It could be arranged if I could get enough heat like in a double boiler type action to vent off the good stuff. The wife would have comments about the sour mash smell in the basement though. I remember as a kid the folks feeding a sour mash modified mixture slop to the hogs. They only fed that once a day but always kept enough of the modified recipe for the next days batch... Talk about a happy bunch of hogs... Then there was always the chickens visiting the pit bunker a week after filling with corn sileage. It was comical watching them get back to the chicken house... .

 

[illflem]

Speaking of drunk animals. A couple years back my neighbors 20 acre cherry orchard got rained on right before harvest,the water sitting in the stem end causes the cherries to split making them unmarketable. The cherries sat on the trees and fermented,the whole orchard smelled like a winery. The coyotes homed in on this,they love cherries,it wasn't unusual to see coyotes 6 feet up in the trees eating. For the rest of that summer they were howling in the day time,you would see them sort of wavering down the rows,think if you tried pet one they would have let you. True story.