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Burning corn in a outside boiler

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Larry from Mich

01-20-2007 05:31:15




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I purchased a Heatmor outside boiler two years ago. It is a shelled corn/wood unit to heat my house. Last winter,we burned shelled corn in the unit because I had a total knee replacement and could not cut wood. This year, I converted the boiler to burn wood.(Very easy to convert) I started to burn wood and I had a farmer tell me about burning ear corn in this unit. He gave me a wagon load of moldy ear corn and it works great. It has cut my wood consumption down by 60% min. I put in 2 small mixing tubs of the corn on top of my wood and it burns into a fine ash. I got over 2 months out of the gravity box of corn. It smokes alot but if you are warm, Who cares!!!

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Brian in NY

01-22-2007 05:37:16




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 Re: Burning corn in a outside boiler in reply to Larry from Mich., 01-20-2007 05:31:15  
You"ll want to make sure your stove is approved for corn. Burning corn produces some kind of acid or something that is very corrosive to metal other than stainless steel.
Wish I knew what/why, but I had to use stainless chimney for my corn stove if it was going to last for more than a season.



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Butch(OH)

01-20-2007 18:17:11




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 Re: Burning corn in a outside boiler in reply to Larry from Mich., 01-20-2007 05:31:15  
Ya, dry ear corn makes good fuel in an outdoor boiler. I have a Woodmaster and I burned a few bushels of ear corn back in the fall as an experiment. Worked fine but the smoke smell would gag a maggot.



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Dan in Ohio

01-20-2007 08:05:02




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 Re: Burning corn in a outside boiler in reply to Larry from Mich., 01-20-2007 05:31:15  
Larry, Does your furnace have a forced air draft or is it natural draft? I have a Central boiler out door wood burner with forced air draft, only used it for one month so I'm still in the learning phase, but am having fun so far. Hope that corn burning works out for you. Will be interesting to see what happens with the price of corn going up recently.



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Larry from Mich.

01-20-2007 10:02:04




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 Re: Burning corn in a outside boiler in reply to Dan in Ohio, 01-20-2007 08:05:02  
Dan, My boiler does have a forced air draft unit on it. I don't know how it would work in a unit without the draft blower. Don't put too much corn in at one time because I did and it heated up over the high limit (200 degrees) and it shut the boiler down till it cooled. The farmer gave me enough moldy corn so I am set for next season too. Give it a try and let me know how it is working. Larry



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RustyFarmall

01-20-2007 05:51:17




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 Re: Burning corn in a outside boiler in reply to Larry from Mich., 01-20-2007 05:31:15  
Makes sense. It used to be that if you heated your house with a wood burning stove, you kept a supply of corn cobs, to be used for getting the fire started first thing in the morning, or if you needed to perk up a slow fire during the day. The cobs would burn up quickly, but they sure did make a nice, hot fire.



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