Wood Pellet Stove

[dirtysquared]

Does anyone else here Own a Wood pellet Stove? I've had mine for 4 years now and love it.
My question to anyone who has one is do you burn corn or pellets in it? I burn pellets, but aquired some free corn. I've read that you should mix them at about a 60%pellet 40% corn ratio with chicken scratch mixed in to burn them. Just wondering if anyone has done this with good results.

Fred

 

[kevinsranger]

Does anyone else here Own a Wood pellet Stove? I've had mine for 4 years now and love it.
My question to anyone who has one is do you burn corn or pellets in it? I burn pellets, but aquired some free corn. I've read that you should mix them at about a 60%pellet 40% corn ratio with chicken scratch mixed in to burn them. Just wondering if anyone has done this with good results.

Fred

i have a harman p68, it says it can burn 50% corn, but the exhaust piping has to be spec'd to burn corn, and its alot dirtier and you have to be extra careful of the moisture content and dirt/extras in the corn. to me corn is too expensive, plus too much of stress considering worrying about the dirt/moisture plus you have to adjust your stove for the different fuel. unless you got a ton or more i would say dont even bother.


but my stove heats my 3k square ft house very very nicely, just got done adding another bag of pellets before posting. good ole somersets they burn soooo hot and i got them at lowes cheap as can be

 

[dirtysquared]

Thanks Kevin, I got about 3 Bushels of shelled screened corn for free yesterday. I read you need the corn at about 14% moisture content too, so I'd have to get some sort of hydrometer gauge?? This corn might end up feeding the deer instead of heating my house!!! I have a US Stove Multi fuel stove thats rated to burn any bio mass fuel. I've only burned pellets to date. I burn the Team Greene pellets. The factory is only 20 Miles from my house so they are pretty cheap around here, and they burn hot, hardly any fines and low ash.
My house is about 2000sq/ft, and its always about 75 degrees in here on the low setting. Thanks for your response!
Fred

 

[kevinsranger]

Thanks Kevin, I got about 3 Bushels of shelled screened corn for free yesterday. I read you need the corn at about 14% moisture content too, so I'd have to get some sort of hydrometer gauge?? This corn might end up feeding the deer instead of heating my house!!! I have a US Stove Multi fuel stove thats rated to burn any bio mass fuel. I've only burned pellets to date. I burn the Team Greene pellets. The factory is only 20 Miles from my house so they are pretty cheap around here, and they burn hot, hardly any fines and low ash.
My house is about 2000sq/ft, and its always about 75 degrees in here on the low setting. Thanks for your response!
Fred

no problem, believe me, i checked into corn too, but after all the research i decided it was too much work and stress just to heat my house the same as the pellets. i LOVE my pellet stove tho, not calling the oil guy all the time is worth every penny

 

[Awk08]

not calling the oil guy all the time is worth every penny

yeah, F that oil guy, and oil furnaces in general, own one and become an oil furnace techician in one winter, PItA's X(
glad i have city supplied gas again now.
never had a pellet stove, but sure miss that alaska wood stove i had before (hope that x-biotch gets burnt on it)

 

[dirtysquared]

I have not bought oil since January 2011. I have about 1/2 tank left, but I'm doing me best to not support OPEC. If I could ever get gas I would switch over, but Untill then, wood pellets it is.

 

[gizzy2014]

we have a outdoor corn burner, we bought it when corn was cheap. but then it got expensive so we burnt wood pellets for 2 yrs and then a mouse chewed a wire and we haven't fixed it. and now are using a wood stove in the basement

when we did use the burner for corn we ran just straight corn for the most part i think.

 

[harley1-5]

I want a wood or pellet stove wife scared kids will touch it

 

[dirtysquared]

I've seen the outdoor wood stoves Gizzy, Didn't know that they made corn ones.

Harley, They really are safe, My daughter is 5 and knows its off limits,

 

[harley1-5]

when we move im gonna convince her I can heat with wood cut it my self and save thousands every year

 

[kevinsranger]

when we move im gonna convince her I can heat with wood cut it my self and save thousands every year

just get the gates for fireplaces, its just a fancy railing sort of thing that goes around the stove so kids cant reach to touch the stove

 

[kevinsranger]

yeah, F that oil guy, and oil furnaces in general, own one and become an oil furnace techician in one winter, PItA's X(
glad i have city supplied gas again now.
never had a pellet stove, but sure miss that alaska wood stove i had before (hope that x-biotch gets burnt on it)

i moved from jersey to trevorton last year, never heard of a pellet stove before lol, well when i bought my house the furnace was bad, oil fired of course and we dont have gas piped to the houses, so i had to drop 5k on a new oil furnace, now its just a big expensive water heater

 

[gizzy2014]

I've seen the outdoor wood stoves Gizzy, Didn't know that they made corn ones.

oh yes.... look exactly the same on the outside except for a hopper hanging off the side or a big grain bin thing standing next to it

the inside has 2 long augers that slowly move the corn forward as it burns and a third auger up higher brings new corn in

can also be used on straight wood pellets, or probably sun-flower or whatever else u can get to go thru the augers I:I i wouldn't recommend these things....