Corn/Pellet boiler furnace info, please

Jethro Lilley · Sep 9, 2014

Do any of you guys heat with a corn-fired boiler? I'm thinking seriously about getting one vs. a wood-fired one. I'm sure some of you Corn Belt guys have one and I would love to have some feed-back. At 62, I am at a point in my life where I don't want to be cutting and toting wood on a daily basis anymore and the cost savings of corn vs. my oil-fired burner would be substantial.
Thanks...

Wemedeeres · Sep 10, 2014

I have a St. Croix corn fired forced air furnace, it can be used as an add on to another system or stand alone in a garage or workshop. I quit using it a couple winters ago after we moved to a newer house with natural gas heat. Our old house had fuel oil for heat, I attached it as an add on furnace so the heat was blown through the existing duct work. I burned just a shade over 200 bushels a year, the other furnace would kick on if the corn burner ran out before I got home or if it was really cold and windy but those times were few and far between. When the price of corn is low its a great heat source in my opinion, three five gallon pails full or corn yielded about half a coffee can of ash, it's easy to maintain and use. Now that the price of corn is lower I'll probably advertise and sell it, just for the fact that with the natural gas we heat with now I don't feel it'd pay.

thdrduck · Sep 10, 2014

I just posted to this issue in the "tools" section. I'll be burning corn again this year in my furnace.

buickanddeere · Sep 10, 2014

Harmond is among the best manufactures of stoker style domestic hearing equipment. The PC-45 is noted for being able to burn grain, pellets and while not EPA rated for coal, . She will do just fine. Multi fuel is good.

casenut1 · Sep 11, 2014

Where are you located at?

Jethro Lilley · Sep 12, 2014

Southeast Virginia. Off I95.

thartiga · Sep 12, 2014

(quoted from post at 15:50:38 09/09/14) Do any of you guys heat with a corn-fired boiler? I'm thinking seriously about getting one vs. a wood-fired one. I'm sure some of you Corn Belt guys have one and I would love to have some feed-back. At 62, I am at a point in my life where I don't want to be cutting and toting wood on a daily basis anymore and the cost savings of corn vs. my oil-fired burner would be substantial.
Thanks...

I have a central boiler maxim. Burn pellets or corn. This year will be my 7th year. Happy with it and burn what's cheapest. This year it will be corn. Looking at putting the bulk feed system in.

The price of the unit has gone up dramatically not sure I could justify it now but it has way more than paid for itself. Last year it saved a ton of money when propain shot way up.

Tim

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