[AT] 50% OT: Corn furnaces

[Rob Gray]

I use a Jotul woodstove on the second floor of the house just about all 
winter. It allows me to keep the heat in the house at 55 during the day 
when no one is home and then I just stoke up the stove at night. Works 
well..... The tractor tie in? Well, I use the old bugger to pull the 
felled trees from the woods for processing...

Rob
NE PA USA


Bill Brueck wrote:

>I can't speak directly to the corn furnace project, but I do have a wood
>burning boiler that pumps hot water to the forced air plenum in the house
>and it has been most satisfactory.  It just started leaking this last season
>after nearly 20 years, the furnace is at a local welding shop now getting
>repaired.  If the repair doesn't hold up I'll almost certainly buy another
>new unit.  Prices run about what you mention.
>
>As part of your equation, make sure you don't hose yourself on insurance for
>the unconventional furnace.  Or keep real quiet about what you've done, if
>you want to stay under the radar.  A good slice of my savings went toward
>increased insurance as I placed the furnace in an unheated but attached
>garage.   Unattached or outside they would have put up with, but I like the
>waste heat providing a warmer garage for me and also I don't have to go
>outside to fuel the thing up.
>
>Corn burners have been out for some time now, I expect the technology is
>pretty good.  A lot handier than wrestling the wood, but that's about the
>only exercise I get these days, LOL.
>
>B²
>Bill Brueck (brick)
>Chatfield, Minnesota USA
>  
>



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