New Tractor Sales Are Declining

[5030]

Very fortunate in that I get my corn for free and I take full advantage of that fact.

 

[ultrarunner]

Very good observation.
Container costs on container vessels are up dramatically.
International shipping companies are not stupid. They know we are the biggest consumer and they also know everything we buy is now made in China and a lesser amount in Europe & Japan.
They are gouging us on international overseas shipping. Check out container costs.

Those ships burn millions of tons of diesel fuel bringing us all our stuff.

Yes but Amazon now offers free shipping to places like the Philippines with $49 min order and if under $200 it is duty free…

Maybe Amazon owns the ships?

 

[5030]

Yes but Amazon now offers free shipping to places like the Philippines with $49 min order and if under $300 it is duty free…

Maybe Amazon owns the ships?

I know they own their own containers. Easy to identify with the 'swoosh' on the sides.

 

[jyoutz]

Fixed it for you.

Actually, your statement is incorrect. You have to own a true multifuel stove to burn corn. Pellet stoves can only burn processed wood pellets not corn. True multi fuel stoves are equipped with controls and a burn chamber that can adjust the algorithm's to combust corn which requires a different air to fuel ratio than pellets do and...

Dried field corn produces substantially more btu's per volume than wood pellets do

I have 2. One in the house and one in the shop and both are capable of 85,000 btu input, 80K btu output. I can burn any biomass in mine, processed wood pellets, dried field corn, dried cherry pits, pelletized switch grass or just straight wood pellets or a mixture of all of them.

Far as consumption is concerned, it all depends on where the unit is set at to deliver the heat output you want. I can set mine in any of 9 heat ranges from idle to wide open and the heat range determines the fuel usage.

Been heating with biomass for over 30 years and biomass is 'carbon neutral' for those 'greenies' out there, not something I'm concerned about, I use biomass because it's cheap heat and I'm inherently cheap.

They don’t sell corn stoves where I live, but I was told our pellet stove can burn corn by the salesman. Wood is much cheaper here than corn.

 

[5030]

They don’t sell corn stoves where I live, but I was told our pellet stove can burn corn by the salesman. Wood is much cheaper here than corn.

What is the make and model. I can tell you for sure. Usually, a drummer don't know squat but you already know that. In reality there are a very select few that are corn or alternative bio mass fuel capable. Harman has a few and so Does US Stove. The others are only wood pellet capable. Most of the older ones like Amaze-a-Blaze are and so are the stand alone boilers.

I should start a thread about what and how people on here heat with (if they do heat that is).

 

[jyoutz]

What is the make and model. I can tell you for sure. Usually, a drummer don't know squat but you already know that. In reality there are a very select few that are corn or alternative bio mass fuel capable. Harman has a few and so Does US Stove. The others are only wood pellet capable. Most of the older ones like Amaze-a-Blaze are and so are the stand alone boilers.

I should start a thread about what and how people on here heat with (if they do heat that is).

It’s a Quadrafire Santa Fe. It’s of no consequence to me because wood pellets are cheap here, but corn is not. I can get wood pellets for $250-275/ton. Corn is double that price because it’s all sold for feed, while wood pellets are made from waste materials.

 

[5030]

Quads are not corn capable. You better buy them while you can because the price of pellets (like everything else) is going up.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

They most certainly go down.
When there are layoffs in a downturn, the new re-hires start at a lower salary when things pick up again.

This same thing happens in real estate. If us landlords fall too far behind on inflation/rent increases and the current tenant doesn't want to pay then we find new tenants that will pay.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

The dealer I bought from said he couldn't keep the model I bought stocked for more than a few days and I heard this from multiple dealers. Only about 3 months ago.

My dealer said the same thing and never moved one of them all year. So take what a dealer says with a grain of salt.

 

[Fixastuff]

How close an eye do you keep on this dealer maybe they were sold and replaced on the lot?