Heating with Pellet Stove???Wth?

[soulasphil]

Thanks for the interesting information. We also have the bricks, but they don't provide automatic feed of the furnace. We can have pellets delivered on pallets too, but then you have to take the bags or buckets to the boiler room, often across other rooms, and I'm sure my wife wouldn't like that. My ultimate hope is to be able to make my own pellets from the trees I have to cut off and burn ouside after the storms for the present. I don't think the necessary tools for home production can be bought here, but I have seen them advertised in the US, so they should be coming some time soon.

 

[Car Doc]

We supplement our house heat with a USSC multi-fuel it burns wood pellets and corn. We have had it 6-7 years maybe more we like a mix of corn 25% to 75% wood for the best heat.

Wood is low/medium output, corn is high output so the mix gives good but not overwhelming heat on not so cold days. Corn has been too high for so long we only burn wood anymore.

 

[jonyyuma]

We supplement our house heat with a USSC multi-fuel it burns wood pellets and corn. We have had it 6-7 years maybe more we like a mix of corn 25% to 75% wood for the best heat.

Wood is low/medium output, corn is high output so the mix gives good but not overwhelming heat on not so cold days. Corn has been too high for so long we only burn wood anymore.

I wonder if the Gov is going to keep pushing the Ethanol mfg. from Corn?? I thought by now They would be using something less tied to the food chain of this country?

 

[Car Doc]

I wonder if the Gov is going to keep pushing the Ethanol mfg. from Corn?? I thought by now They would be using something less tied to the food chain of this country?

You know its hard to pin it on things one way or the other? Ethanol was definitely one theory drought was another who knows what the truth is? Ethanol is no where near as big as it was a few years ago around here anyway its a non topic here now E85 isn't even sold at pumps in my little town any more fwtw.

I expect this year here in the Midwest anyway the way it is now with absolutely perfect growing weather so far it is going to be real good to excellent crops so maybe just maybe supply and demand will balance out? :thumbsup: