Cheap heat for your Archery shop or home
11-25-2006, 07:08 AM
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RE: Cheap heat for your Archery shop or home
I wouldn't have to clean it out daily but we have just let it burn out on its' own and we clean it before we fire it back up. My ash pan in the bottom has approx 2 cups of ash in it and most of it looks like oyster shell. We use a shop vac on the inside of the stove with what doesn't drop to the ash pan. Buddy, this stove is great!!!! Our house has never been so warm. I am off to the coop to get more corn. I have run 3 1/2 bushels through it in the last 2 1/2 days. We'll see how she does next week with the cold weather moving in.
11-26-2006, 06:20 AM
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RE: Cheap heat for your Archery shop or home
We have a two story house, and we put a cornstove in our basement before last winter, it is great, running on #2 of the 5 settings, our house is 71 degrees when it is 30 outside. It burns less than a bushel a day. We clean out our pot every three days, but we don't put the fire out, we just knock it loose and tip it so the burning corn falls back in the pot, no heat loss and struggling to start the corn. And as far as the earlier menchoned "waste" of good corn, how is that a waste, it is $$ in the pockets of the farmers, and that is key. I would love to have one in my hunting shack, but I would be "well done" in a short time. Keep Burning that gold!
11-26-2006, 07:32 AM
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RE: Cheap heat for your Archery shop or home
ORIGINAL: Grandviewer
Question how long does 60# of corn/wood last you before you have to fill the hopper up? Or how long does 100# of corn last you now in mild weather?
Question how long does 60# of corn/wood last you before you have to fill the hopper up? Or how long does 100# of corn last you now in mild weather?
11-26-2006, 07:56 AM
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RE: Cheap heat for your Archery shop or home
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I was wondering the same thing.
ORIGINAL: Grandviewer
Question how long does 60# of corn/wood last you before you have to fill the hopper up? Or how long does 100# of corn last you now in mild weather?
Question how long does 60# of corn/wood last you before you have to fill the hopper up? Or how long does 100# of corn last you now in mild weather?
11-26-2006, 08:01 AM
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RE: Cheap heat for your Archery shop or home
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We have a two story house, and we put a cornstove in our basement before last winter, it is great, running on #2 of the 5 settings, our house is 71 degrees when it is 30 outside. It burns less than a bushel a day. We clean out our pot every three days, but we don't put the fire out, we just knock it loose and tip it so the burning corn falls back in the pot, no heat loss and struggling to start the corn. And as far as the earlier menchoned "waste" of good corn, how is that a waste, it is $$ in the pockets of the farmers, and that is key. I would love to have one in my hunting shack, but I would be "well done" in a short time. Keep Burning that gold!
We have a two story house, and we put a cornstove in our basement before last winter, it is great, running on #2 of the 5 settings, our house is 71 degrees when it is 30 outside. It burns less than a bushel a day. We clean out our pot every three days, but we don't put the fire out, we just knock it loose and tip it so the burning corn falls back in the pot, no heat loss and struggling to start the corn. And as far as the earlier menchoned "waste" of good corn, how is that a waste, it is $$ in the pockets of the farmers, and that is key. I would love to have one in my hunting shack, but I would be "well done" in a short time. Keep Burning that gold!
11-26-2006, 08:04 AM
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RE: Cheap heat for your Archery shop or home
BTW; this antique wash basin is sweet for storing the grain, pellets, and mixing the two. This is so easy. I am glad I didn't go with a wood burner. I plan on buying a small grain wagon and putting this in my barn. These can be had very cheap as farmers use semi's now and huge grain wagons and these little ones are obsolete to them.
11-26-2006, 10:03 AM
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RE: Cheap heat for your Archery shop or home
HCH, is your house old, real big, or poorly insulated, or is the price of natural gas that dang high?
I am shocked at your stated "$600-$800"/month heating bill. I'm on propane, and will be having $400 worth put in next week, and that will last me through the winter(will get my tank upto about 55% of full. I use a wood burner in my basement, and will burn about 1.5 cord of hardwood in a winter.
I am just shocked that it is costing anyone 600-800 a month to heat thier house!!
Too bad the price of corn is higher this fall, for you that is. Farmers are liking it though!
How much corn do you get when you get it from the co-op and how do you store it, or do you buy it in bags?
I am shocked at your stated "$600-$800"/month heating bill. I'm on propane, and will be having $400 worth put in next week, and that will last me through the winter(will get my tank upto about 55% of full. I use a wood burner in my basement, and will burn about 1.5 cord of hardwood in a winter.
I am just shocked that it is costing anyone 600-800 a month to heat thier house!!
Too bad the price of corn is higher this fall, for you that is. Farmers are liking it though!
How much corn do you get when you get it from the co-op and how do you store it, or do you buy it in bags?
11-26-2006, 10:11 AM
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RE: Cheap heat for your Archery shop or home
Well thanks. I haven't seen a deer in yearsDo you use a screening device of some sort to clean your corn, or does it come pretty clean from where you get it? We have a little box we pour ours through, it has different size chicken wire in it that gets all the fines out, makes a difference, alot cleaner without the bee wings in there. We have an old deep freeze we store our corn in, works great, keeps it nice and dry.
Do you use a screening device of some sort to clean your corn, or does it come pretty clean from where you get it? We have a little box we pour ours through, it has different size chicken wire in it that gets all the fines out, makes a difference, alot cleaner without the bee wings in there. We have an old deep freeze we store our corn in, works great, keeps it nice and dry.