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With all the talk 'bout heating options...

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Can't even use

11-15-2004 19:57:45




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Ok, so now I have a few questions. We have two houses on the farm here. Both had indoor add on wood furnaces. Added to the current LP furnace duct work obviously. Both worked really well, could get the smaller house to 80 too easy! And the 100 some year old barely insulated farm house to 80 if ya wanted. Then we decided LP was too expensive to use to heat the milking parlor. So we get the mid-sized outdoor wood boiler. Heated water goes to "radiators" and so on. Installed it in the current ductwork of the farm house and put a squirrel cage fan behind another in the parlor. Now on the same amount of wood to heat farmhouse to 70 before we can heat house and parlor to 70+. And parlor is open for a few hours a day. Obviously a good efficient heat source. And less mess and splitting wood. Now the fella that sells these units has gotten a corn boiler to test here in Northern IN. Problem is the thing wont stay lit when no heat is needed. I guess they work well in really cold temps but here not so well. Claim after initial startup only 1 bushel of corn per day. So, who actually has a corn boiler and how well do they work? I am starting my house in a month or so and am going to use an outdoor boiler but not sure if wood or corn is the way to go? Sorry for the very long post.

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Paul in Ontario

11-16-2004 02:25:31




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 Re: With all the talk 'bout heating options... in reply to Can't even use my name, 11-15-2004 19:57:45  
The 1 bushel a day will probably be way low. Corn or wheat ( I burn either in old Dovetec Stoves and Envirotec) These grains contain about 7000 BTU's of energy per pound.

If a forced air furnace or boiler is rated for 100,000 BTU/hr you will be burning about 12/13 pounds per hour. This is contiuous output mind you and 100% efficency. If the system demanded full out put you would burn about 5 bushels /day.

The grain also has to be dry, this is 1 of the reasons that I use wheat. We straight cut it usually under 13%. With todays commidity prices grain burning looks pretty attractive. Until I learn how to grow propane, wheat and corn will be my fuel of choice.

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Can't even use my name

11-16-2004 16:33:04




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 Re: With all the talk 'bout heating options... in reply to Paul in Ontario, 11-16-2004 02:25:31  
You had the info I was really after, BTU's per pound. I did some lookin and found a ball park average BTU for wood is around 6000 per pound. A bit less. So if you burn say 3 face cords a year (seems to be a decent amount right???) you would be burning about 11,000 lbs of wood. That is 200 bushel of corn a year. Not too bad I guess. Here we heat for roughly 6 months so at $2 a bushel that is $400 a year or about $70 a month. However, for me it seems that since we have a large supply of good hardwood to burn it would be cheaper to use.

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Paul in Ont

11-17-2004 01:46:15




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 Re: With all the talk 'bout heating options... in reply to Can't even use my name, 11-16-2004 16:33:04  
Not much wood in my area about 8 trees on my farm in total. I did do wood for 1 season at a farm house I rented . I found that using wood to heat a home makes heat about 6 times.1 When ya cut it 2 move it to the truck 3 unload and stack. etc etc The combine does all the cutting and splitting for me now. 2- 5 gallon pails give me plenty of heat, with out the bugs bark etc.



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11-17-2004 09:39:01




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 Re: With all the talk 'bout heating options... in reply to Paul in Ont, 11-17-2004 01:46:15  
I like the exercise, young and dumb but no where near overweight! Plus with all the already down trees it cleans up our woods. I was just curious if corn could really heat as well as wood. Like I said, one of the local wood boiler dealers has a corn boiler for exp. but they are having problems with it in our temps. Northern IN, goes for needing your heater to defrost your winshield to needing your a/c and back to the heater all from 6 a.m. to noon to 6 p.m.

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