In July 2006 I purchased a US Stove 6039 Multi-fuel Corn/Pellet Stove to replace a Fireplace and to reduce my pro"pain" usage. My house is a sectional that is 10 years old. The house is 2000 square feet and other than the bedrooms is very open spaces.

Over the last 10 years i typically have contracted 1500 gallons of propane a year. A portion of the propane is used to heat my shop which is a seperate building but close to 1000 gallons is consumed for heating the main residence. My water heater, clothes dryer and cook range/oven is also propane.

I started running the stove in early october. The gravity wagon was delivered around October 15 with 170 bushels of corn. the 170 bushels was just a guess. I am hoping to not have any leftover but I also would like to not have to run the furnace either.

US Stove sent the modified burn pot and 5 finger agitator along with the version 34 program. The stove generates a little more large ash than I would like but with oyster shell the clinkers have been brought under control.

Once I get this site laid out closer to a more "final" layout. The bulk of updates will be to the cornuse page. I report weather data automatically to NOAA so hope to set up a data page that shows high/low temp for the day and how much corn was burnt. The burn amount wont be precise but I will be recording into a seperate database as I add corn to the hopper by approximate weight.

2007-2008... Corn was delivered on Sept 28, 176 bushels and I ended up having about 6 bushels left over from last years. I did a test burn early in September with about 7 pounds of corn to see if the old stuff was still good enough to burn. It seems to burn okay, it will be a bit challenging to clean as the critters hatched out over the summer and at one point I had a garage full of corn millers of some sort flying around. The top of the tubs of corn have a lot of spiderwebs and caterpillar silks stuck to them, but I am going to try and burn it as i just dont want to throw it away.

This year I have taken a brave step to committing to being full corn heat on the house. I have always contracted a budget amount on the propane for the winter. This year my supplier always does a summer fill, I had them top both tanks up for the house and the shop and do not intend on filling them if I can avoid it. I will probably be sparing on heating the garage and that tank should be able to make it through the winter, if it goes empty then I will just have to have a cold shop, I might have to move a few chemicals in to the house that I cant let freeze but most of the contents doesnt care out there.

The house I plan on setting the thermostat for the furnace on 55 so that it will take a flame out in the stove before it will kick on. Will see if I can make it all winter w/o burning propane for heat. I still have the dryer, water heater and cook stove but surely 400 gallons will get me through to next summer...

The real test is whether my propane supplier paid attention to me when I said I did not want any fills unless I call for them. I may want to send a followup to make sure.

2006-2007 Corn usage.

2007-2008 Corn usage.
This link is to a table that is updated daily showing my corn usage and high/low temps for each day. The script that updates this table runs hourly but at this time the hi/low temps are not available until midnight.

cleaning the corn cleaning the stove

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