corn/Pellet stove ?

[coobie]

I replaced my wood stove with a Vermont Castings "propane" unit.38,000BTU's ,uses no power and automatic with a mili-volt thermostat.Propane here is half the price of fuel oil.I have 20 acres of wood lot and chose propane for the convenience.
Another note on the pellet stoves;who is going to handle the hundreds of 40lb.bags and where do you store them?

Pellets are stored in my pole barn and unloaded with my tractor pallet forks.Life is good with pellets .Propane costs around here is why I choose wood pellets 10 years ago.I now use 3-4 tons of pellets to heat my house.The cost is about $179 per ton if you buy them in july so cost is $716 per year to heat our 1635 sq.foot house is pretty cheap.Beats the heck out propane costs all day long.I never enjoyed busting my back cutting wood all summer and fall to heat in the winter.Needless to say cleaning up all of the wood mess from the tree bark and bugs.PS don,t forget to store the wood a far ways from the house in case of termite infestation.Just my thoughts.

 

[wmonroe]

Can a pellet stove be connected to the house duct work to heat the whole house?

 

[westcliffe01]

There are pellet furnaces available to drop in as a regular furnace replacement, or connect in series (or T off) regular furnace ductwork.

 

[whistlepig]

Pellet stoves are nice. Wood pellet shelf life very good. I wouldn't go corn pellet. Corn draws moisture. If corn didn't draw moisture there are a whole lot of grain drying bins that the farmers use here that would be a waste of time.

 

[BHD]

Pellet stoves are nice. Wood pellet shelf life very good. I wouldn't go corn pellet. Corn draws moisture. If corn didn't draw moisture there are a whole lot of grain drying bins that the farmers use here that would be a waste of time.

corn is many times picked at a higher moisture than it is safe to store it at, as if you let it dry down to good storage moisture, there is cracking and loss in the combining process, thus it is picked a few points wetter than is safe to store it, at least that is the reason there is drying bins in my area, I have not seen grain pick up much moisture from the air, (not saying it cant happen), not that big of problem in our area, it may be a problem in yours, I would not think it would be any worst than wood absorbing water out of the air, as wood is a sponge for air moisture,

 

[oosik]

I have a pellet stove. Its a Pelletmaster by Wellenco. Supposedly it will burn just about anything. I've used wood pellets, of course, & winter wheat & pea pellets & olive pits(VERY expensive) & paper pellets but not corn. No source of dry corn in my area. It also will work using coal but I have these horrid visions of coal dust covering all the walls in the house, so I've never tried coal. It works on all the products I've mentioned here, but of course, it works best on wood pellets. We get a brand here, made in Northern Idaho that works the very best in my pellet stove - Lignetics. Very little fines, very little ash and puts out a LOT of heat. I only use the pellet stove if it gets really cold - its much cheaper and a whole lot less of a mess to just turn on the electric wall board heaters. BTW - one ton of Lignetics cost $200-$250 locally. My highest electric bill EVER was $176.

I made a serious mistake when I bought this pellet stove. The dealer recommended a small sized Pelletmaster. I looked and they came in sizes - small, medium and large. Well, what the heck!! - if I'm going to have a pellet stove its going to be the large one!!!! Y'all see what I'm sayin'??
So now when I fire up the pellet stove it will be -10F outside, it will be 84-88 degrees in the house and I will be sitting in the living room, in summer shorts and tank top with both of the doors to the house wide open - sweating like a pig!!! The pellet stove is at its lowest setting and still putting out way too much heat for the required situation. Really, its a case of not listening to good advice from someone who knew a lot more about a situation than I did!!
My house is extremely well insulated and looses very little heat in the winter - Pan Abode double wall cedar.

When all is said and done its OK that the pellet stove puts out so much heat. Even if I had the small pellet stove - its still a whole lot cheaper to use electric heat here.

 

[BHD]

I was doing a little looking over the week end, and found this pellet stove, (no power needed) not the easiest starting but not that hard either,

WiseWay Pellet Stoves - Stoves | Central Point, OR

the flue temps seem a little hot to me tho, watch the video and it is well explained,

This stove is the first and only EPA-certified and UL-listed Non Electric Pellet Stove on the market today. The WiseWay Pellet Stove accomplishes an overall efficiency rating of 75%. Impressive is its ability to heat from 800 to 2,000 square feet of living space. A 40-lb. bag of pellets will last up to 31 hours on low or 12 hours on high.

 

[fordmantpw]

I was doing a little looking over the week end, and found this pellet stove, (no power needed) not the easiest starting but not that hard either,

WiseWay Pellet Stoves - Stoves | Central Point, OR

the flue temps seem a little hot to me tho, watch the video and it is well explained,

I will supply electricity for an extra 10+% in efficiency on the pellets. Many pellet stoves run 85+% efficiency.

 

[DaveOmak]

I was doing a little looking over the week end, and found this pellet stove, (no power needed) not the easiest starting but not that hard either,

WiseWay Pellet Stoves - Stoves | Central Point, OR

the flue temps seem a little hot to me tho, watch the video and it is well explained,

That is one cool stove.... I like it.... You could plumb hot water to heat the floor of the green house or your own dwelling..