Corn Stoves

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I have a bunch to do between rain storms this weekend, but I'll likely go pick one up this next week. Figure used is a better bet than spending a ton more for new.

move quick, first snow up here, so they might be selling soon

 

[Defecater]

I had one about 15 years ago. Went right to the place they were manufactured here in Iowa to get mine. I believe it was the Amaziblaze brand.
Was a mixed bag for me. Mine worked OK for the most part. Did have a problem with a couple of auger feed motors going out untill company found a supplier for a more robust version. Never really had anymore problems with furnace after that as I recall.
My biggest issue with it was the amount of attention it required. I had a small gravity wagon that I either hauled into town or took to the neighbor to buy corn. My sources had too much trash in the corn-pieces of cob, stalk residue, chaff, etc. This stuff will burn, obviously, but the problem was that it is soft enought to get jammed into the auger flighting and cause feeding issues. So to try to prevent this, I had to "sift" the corn coming out of my wagon through 1/2 animal cage wire.
SLOWLY.
inconvienient, but I was coming out ahead financially over propane heat until corn prices went up a few years later.
Was honestly glad to be done with the bullshit of dealing with it all. Not just the trying to clean the corn, but the having to go buy it, carry it to hopper in buckets, cleaning out the burn pot.
Went to a geothermal setup after that dissapointment

 

[Muckin_Slusher]

Will your insurance allow a solid fuel appliance in an unoccupied outbuilding?

I know a lot of them are clamping down on garage or shop stoves. Though a corn stove may count as an automatic furnace?

I know right?

Asked an insurance agent about that one, and he said: "well, in a garage you could just light a fire in the stove and then leave!"

because nobody ever lights a morning fire in their house, then goes off to work.

 

[cousineddie]

Farmers inventing the corn stove = "This year, the corn is cheaper than the pellets, what the hell are we buying pellets for?"

I had a pellet stove, worked great for inside the house, but they will chew through corn/pellets, so make sure you have a cheap or free supply.

Firewood on the other hand, bit of labor, and she's all warm.

 

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I know right?

Asked an insurance agent about that one, and he said: "well, in a garage you could just light a fire in the stove and then leave!"

because nobody ever lights a morning fire in their house, then goes off to work.

he'll be shocked to find out that furnaces light a fire inside them when nobody is even around
or that water heaters always have fire in them