One Shot Will
ArboristSite Operative
Another trick with the corn to prevent the clinkers and the ceramic buildup is a couple cups of oyster shells that you feed chickens to a bu of corn makes a big difference.
I'd run from a corn furnace, just getting the moisture down to less than 12% to have it burn efficiently is a major cost.
Adam, I'm not understanding your comment. his furnace holds 4bushel, and even on the coldest days he can go 24hrs between loads.
Are you saying he uses 4 bushels in 24 hrs? This is $7 x 4= $28 for 24 hrs? Over $1 per hour to burn corn?
My daughters boy friend he's there shop with corn. A big shop that you can drive a combine around in the corn burner you can put a VW in it. They burn wood before he said it is cheaper to burn corn. LaterHow are they? I have 10 acres (about 8 are tillable) and I was thinking that growing and drying corn might be a lot less labor intensive than making firewood. But I could be wrong.
I currently have a decorative high efficiency Napoleon wood burner in my living room. It is my only source of heat. It does a really nice job of heating my whole 1200 Sq ft home. I go through 5 full cords each winter. How much corn would it take to heat my house for the winter?
OK all you corn burners, I wanna hear from you.
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Adam, I'm not understanding your comment. his furnace holds 4bushel, and even on the coldest days he can go 24hrs between loads.
Are you saying he uses 4 bushels in 24 hrs? This is $7 x 4= $28 for 24 hrs? Over $1 per hour to burn corn?
I am currently building a forced air outside wood stove which is how I got to the Arborist site to begin with.
Are you doing a thread with pictures & text?
Yeah, maybe. I'm not very computer savy, but I have been taking pictures along the way.
My plan is a to consolidate the best features of some burners that I have first hand knowledge of. I really like the concept of the "elm" stoves with the secondary burn tubes, however I like the control of a forced air primary blower to control the burn, tied to a wall thermostat.
To top all that off I want it to be outside, forced air, and down flow. I know there are stoves already out there (fire chief,US stove) but they unfortunately do not fit my situtation.
I'm starting with a piece of 24" seamless steel pipe 1/4" thick, that was 10' 9" long. I got for $150.00 and the guy I got it from threw in a 10' piece of seamless 6" for my flue. So if my first design does'nt work I have some room for error. But hopefully I'll just have material leftover to make more stoves for my kids.
I think any heating device has a "learning curve" my corn stove (from canada) took me about three years to figure out. Now I can clean out the "clinker" while the stove is still burning, it runs about four days before I need to shut it down to vac out the ashes and restart it.
I'm the OP.
Does anyone have a pellet stove AND make their own pellets from either saw dust or biomass (leaves, grass, etc). If so, please share your experiences.
Don
Someday economic circumstances will force us to legalize industrial hemp. It was a crime that it was outlawed in the first place, the stuff won't make you high, and it is an extremely useful plant. It creates biomass with little to no input of pesticides and fertilizer. Someday, we'll see hemp pellet stoves on the market. The smoke from these stoves will smell sweet, just like the air at a rock festival!
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