Comments on: Corn Stoves

By: Adan Ondersma

Adan Ondersma — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:34:39 +0000

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By: GEORGE HENNESSEY

GEORGE HENNESSEY — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:55:32 +0000

I HAVE A OLD DOVE TEK CORN STOVE. I USE HERE IN LONDON ONTARIO WHEN IT GETS DOWN TO -30 IT WORKS GREAT THAT’S THE WEIRD THING ABOUT THEM THE COLDER IT GETS THE BETTER IT WORKS.MMMMMM MUST BE BECAUSE CORN GETS SO HOT.IT JUST BURNS BETTER ANYWAY I LOVE IT….THANKS TO WHO EVER INVENTED .YOURS TRULY GEORGE HENNESSEY LONDON ONTARIO CANADA ..

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:48:38 +0000

Well into corn stoves, great article, hopefully you’ll get lots of interest

By: joy

joy — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:25:58 +0000

hopefully this won’t cause any problems for us corn lovers…

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:38:34 +0000

Thank you Joe for sharing your experience with corn stoves. They sound like a lot of work, but well worth the effort.

By: joe brokaw

joe brokaw — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:56:30 +0000

I am about to start my 4th year on burning corn. I purchased my first corn stove and placed it on my main floor worked great only the basement was cold so the next year i got another one. i live in a small town in iowa and let tell you corn is everyware. yes it is clean renewable and does require a little work. i purchased a 100 bushel corn wagon for about 75 dollars at a farm auction. and with some help from my welder and sawlsall turned it into a 60 bushel with a toung to hook up to my pick-up. i built a 100 bushel corn crib in my basement under a window and now all i do is back up to the window and slide the corn in. thats not to hard. i can buy 60 bushel of 11% moisture corn for around 1.50 per bushel. so for 90.00$ i heat my house for about 2 mos. around here it costs the avrage home about 200 per month to heat. the hardest part of doing all of this is cleaning out the ashes. one of my stoves is real easy and i do this every day. my 9 year old son can do it. it leaves a hard ash called a clinker. about the size of a hocky puck .no big deal the other stove aditates the ash and it stays granular. this is harder i have to shut down the stove and let it cool and clean it with a shop vac. i do this stove every week. 90% of the ashes get grated down do a drawr. that i dump out every couple of days. other than that and a good pipe clean out once a month it is simple, clean, and cheap. you can dump your ashes on your garden and it wont hurt anything. as far as inital cost. Well the one upstairs is a self lighting unit on a thermostat. it cost aroun 2000 dollars and has paid for it self. the one down stairs requires more work you have to light it and control the air intake. it only cost 1200 bucks. but i am very happy with both of them. we keep the house at 76 degrees. with no worry of cost. A corn stove works by blowing air on the fire and burning the corn. so you cant just dump a pile of corn a fire it would only smolder and go out. it is a completely sealed unit (air tight) 95% efficient. they do make fire place inserts though. the nice thing about these is you need only 1 inch yes inch clearence form the wall. and needs only 12 inches of exaust sticking out past the house. in the winter time the kids come in from the cold and sit on it. it wont burn you at all. I don’t know why everybody dosent have one. .

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:34:05 +0000

Can you use corn in any ole’ stove? I’ve got a jotul stove that heats my house in which I use wood. Is there an apparatus/adapter that is needed? Method? I want to try corn but at this point, all I’d know to do is dump a pile of corn in my stove and throw a match on it…

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:52:23 +0000

Jen,
You should talk with Mike Tidwell over at CCAN & EarthBeat radio fame. He spearheaded the corn silo’s in Takoma Park and his home is a show place for the stoves and many other
‘green’ home inovations. Maybe if enough MOM’s customers installed corn stoves MOM’s could have small silo’s each location.