My new Pellet Stove also burns corn!!!!

It's 33 outside, I have this baby on low, burning a 50%pellet/50%feed corn mix and I can't get it below 72 degrees in here!!!!

I should send Columbia Gas an envelope full of pellets and corn include a note telling them to "suck it!". Then again, I'd rather not make the local news.

...did you purchase? We have had a Winrich for about 12 years but it may bite the dust soon. Interested to hear what model you have.

So there! :P

Is wanting a corn stove. He lives near a guy who probably pays $100 a year for his energy needs (during the night in summer, his electric meter runs backwards because he's putting energy back onto the grid). He gives tours of his home, and the central part of it is the corn stove he has.

However, during our emailing back and forth on it, I did some quick and dirty math, taking into account buying a stove and the amount of bushels of corn you have to buy to keep your house heated for 6 months a year, and I didn't really see too much in the ways of savings, but if you're able to keep it at 72 or higher, maybe that's where the savings come in.

Do you feel like you're saving a lot of money with it? I too would like a corn stove - but won't buy one until I'm sure my current heater is kaput - but I would like to be able to tell the gas company to kiss my ass.

TlalocW

not including the price of the stove($1800.00). The cost of the stove is worth it to me, because I will no longer be giving money to Columbis Gas.

I heat my home (somewhere around 1500 square feet) for less than $50.00 a month, but I'm in Oklahoma, a state with lots of natural gas. I'm just trying to decide if sticking it to the man is going to be worth the expense and labor of having a corn burner.

TlalocW

Here's a thread I started on it. The stove sounds WONDERFUL! It seems they're now very hard to get because so many people are buying them?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5411090

Is your stove rated for corn? Corn burns hotter then wood and stoves designed for wood pellets are not safe to burn corn in. On the other hand corn stoves can burn either and it is recommended that wood be used to get a cold stove going.

I've been thinking about corn and wood pellet stoves since experiencing my brother-in-law's pellet stove. It's in the basement and warms the whole house. They have electric baseboards as backups with an UPS system on the pellet stove to keep it running during power blackouts.

Pellets are waste wood made into a fuel

Corn is a food and should not be burnt

If conventionally grown, more calories were used to grow the corn; fertilizer, herbicide, pesticide, diesel fuel, than the corn will produce in heat.

Ya might as well burn it as a food, hybrid corn is a mere shell of the once great open pollinated organiclly grown corn that made this country what it was until after WW2.

I grow OP corn for feed, food, I'd never consider burning it.

Why not burn newspaper logs? I have seen rollers for this , and the users say it works very well.

I've heated with wood for 40 years, I do know some do not have a wood lot to get their wood in, but pallets , and other sources of wood paper, cardboard is available just about anywhere.Some trim trees for others to get their wood.

In farm country with no trees, hybrid poplar trees can be grown in rows , and harvested with a corn silage harvestor, a very efficient operation, the drying of the chips is the main draw back, but some farmers have made wood fired driers for their corn , and wood chips, they don't burn corn.Some save the corn cobs coming out the back of the combine, and already dry, these can be stored in piles under cover, and corn cobs heat well too.

how does it smell? what's the model?

Ours is a Harman and I can't recommend them highly enough (spring for the automatic starting models). It will burn both pellets and corn, although I haven't found anyone in my neck of the woods selling corn. We've had wood stoves in the past to supplement the furnace, but the pellet stove is far superior. The temperature can be controlled to the degree and creosote doesn't build up in the chimney so there's no risk of a chimney fire. I wish I'd bought one long ago.

,...how difficult is it to set up? I am in dire need of an alternative source of heat. I freak out during winter because I am all electric and we are subject to losing it during heavy snow.

new technology.

http://www.salesunlimited.com/productdetails.aspx?Dept=357646cc-2df9-4e59-93dd-1b7bddccf981&Cat=Pellet^-^Inserts&MID=7fc3acc9-5fb6-4a9c-89e8-229cee73bbef

The price has gone up $400 and you will also find the price of pellets is through the roof as well. The pellets need to be purchased in early fall, I bought 2 tons from Lowes.

It is a DIY install, so you need to be very(very) handy.

Natural gas, fuel oil, coal and all mineral fuels contain carbon which has been locked out of our system for eons until someone extracted it and we burned it.

Trees, corn and other fuels that bound up carbon which is released upon burning make no net change in the amount of atmospheric carbon. The plants take carbon in from the air and release it when decomposed, whether by natural decay or being burnt.