Posted by nw_bearcat on January 18, 2010 at 06:50:02 from (164.144.252.26):
In Reply to: Outdoor Corn Boiler posted by MapleStone@home on January 17, 2010 at 15:45:41:
i have a Harmon in my living room, have heated so far in IA on 30bu of corn + ~15-20 bags of pellets. I burn a mix, it keeps the chunks in the fire pot a bit softer. The exhaust hasn't clogged up all winter so far. I don't have the best of corn this year, pretty dusty and many finds, but I've not had a problem burning it, I pour it back and forth a couple times to knock the dust off, but that's about it, no screening involved.
My dad has a LDJ, made in IA, forced air furnace, he burns a bit more, but doesn't have near the insulation in his house as I do. Of the indoor furnaces, I feel it's one of the best out there. They also make a boiler as an inside unit. One option would be to put that in a shed, or garage.
They're more work than a fuel oil or propane unit, as you are working with a solid fuel heat source, but I feel much less work than cutting wood all fall. Dad switched from a wood stove to burning corn. He was burning 1/4-1/2 a pickup load of wood a week, and hauling ?? buckets of ashes out of the basement from that wood. Now he's burning 1 bu corn/day and hauling a bucket of ashes out a week. Plus he's not stomping around with chainsaw for days on end cutting wood then handling it 3x (load pu, unload pu, carry to stove) He's acutally now not even touching his corn. He has a box on the back of an old pickup, he backs up to a basement window, hooks up a hose to the box, and can use a vacum to pull the corn inside the house and dump into the stove. In the process, it pulls off much of the dust.
check out the link if it posts, there are alot of guys doing this with a minimal amount of effort, some are doing it and working quite hard at it, but it seems to be as much of a hobby as anything.
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