corn burning stove ????

[crowspond]

any opions discussions or whatever on only corn not pellet burning stove brands pros cons good or bad thanks crowspond

 

[Clarence Slydell]

(quoted from post at 18:21:39 10/21/19) any opions discussions or whatever on only corn not pellet burning stove brands pros cons good or bad thanks crowspond

No, but I've got an opinion on punctuation, etc. Want to hear it?

 

[Gambles]

I really don't know what you want to discuss. A corn stove burns corn.
That being said, my brother picked up a Harmon PC45 last year for free. It's actually a pellet OR corn stove. You can burn both. It looked new, but it didn't work, so I did a little troubleshooting and it turned out that the circuit board was bad. A couple of drivers had failed on it and after some replacement semiconductors and a little soldering, it works great. One must remember to use dry corn, probably the drier, the better. He takes a bucket of corn and puts it on top of another wood-burning stove for a few days before he uses it in the corn stove to further dry it out. Corn stoves have to have the "clinkers" removed every day to keep them burning more efficient. A wood burning stove needs to be cleaned also. It's also ironic that corn stoves fall out of favor when the corn prices go high. We had a local dealer here have several stoves in inventory for years because he couldn't sell them. Suddenly, when the corn prices dropped, he couldn't sell enough of them. I'd never buy a new corn stove myself, especially now that propane is so cheap, but that's just me.

 

[Lazy WP]

Had one in 2007. I wouldn?t wanna try to heat the house with it. Have to have CLEAN DRY corn. Haul the clinkers out twice a day. Stinky and if the power goes out so does the stove. Hard to light them also.
I hated it.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Clarence, I'd bet you probably appreciate "prolly" as much as I do. gm ;-)

 

[crowspond]

Wanting to use it in my farm shop I have corn to use in it just thinking out loud thanks again crowspond

 

[Super H Mike]

I have had a Countyside in my shop for 20 years and love it. Insurance calls it a "heating appliance " so no problems or surcharges there, like with wood. I burn dry corn mixed with wood pellets about 50/50 and get no clinkers. If you try to burn wet corn or even straight dry corn then you get the clinkers. Don't use oyster shell, it cleans up clinkers but the abrasiveness wears out the stir arm and firepot. Mine doesn't care if the corn is very clean , but it should be 12% moisture or less. As far as lighting it, all I do is throw a hand full of wood pellets in the firepot and hold my propane torch on them about a minute to get them burning, close the door and walk away. Don't buy a cheap off brand stove, get one with the stir agitator in the firepot. In the summer unplug it from the outlet, I lost a circuit board in mine to lightning one summer. I clean it once every 2 weeks or so and actually like the roasted corn smell.