Pellets in wood stove?

[valley ranch]

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That's good Nyboy!

 

[valley ranch]

Is the corn in pellets also?

 

[Nyboy]

don't know what kind of wood, some kind of shipping company for years they had sign out. About the only thing for free around here.

 

[Smart Red]

Is the corn in pellets also?

The corn is shucked. That means the individual pieces of corn (seeds) are taken off the cob and are small enough to run through the auger into the corn burner furnace. Each corn kernel is about the same size as a wood pellet.

 

[PhilaGardener]

@Smart Red , that sounds really interesting! What brand corn furnace do you have and does your farmer neighbor have to do anything other than air dry it for you? It sounds as if one wanted to grow your own fuel for heating that might be the easiest way to do it!

 

[Smart Red]

@PhilaGardener, we have a Magnum brand corn/pellet burner. We use it as the heat source in our wood working shop. It looks much like this unit.

We rent about 20 acres out to a neighboring farmer who then sells us corn by the bushel as we need it, although we could certainly be growing our own corn for the heat-
er. The neighbor plants different crops on our land each year, but has many other acres so he's growing corn somewhere. Also, he has the machinery to dry the corn to its necessary 12 % moisture level.

 

[Beekissed]

You'd think a person could just burn the cob along with the corn...they burn well.

 

[Smart Red]

The burner has a gravity fed bin that holds the fuel (corn and/or pellets) and an auger to draw the fuel into the burn chamber. Perhaps a bigger burner would handle full ears, but ours is too small.

The corn burns very efficiently with very little ash left over.

 

[Carol Dee]

We had a corn burner. It was in the kitchen at the time of the house fire. It was always plugging up. Not sure why. We never replaced it as the price of corn. (We bought from the co-op) was getting more expensive than wood pellets.

 

[thistlebloom]

This may be a dumb question, but does it smell like popcorn or cornbread outside when you're burner is in use?