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Pellet Stoves
Why don't you try a simple drying unit, force a small amount of the hot dry air coming off the stove up through a hopper of corn similar to the conventional setup we use in an Ag. operation.
If you're only using 60 lbs. a day, you would only need to dry a fairly small amount per day.
Besides during heating season you probably could stand a little extra humididty in the house anyway.
I used to have a corn stove in the shop, it was a Canadian built unit which had a dryer built in, the corn at the bottom of the hopper was dried before the auger could get it to the firebox.
The pellet stove is run on pure wood pelets, we get them a little cheaper than you guys south of us, at the price they are here it's not worth fussing with corn any more. Presently we are paying C$125/ton delivered, that is about US$92.50/ton.
Best of luck.
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There is a local company who produce pellets, they also supply shavings and sawdust in bulk or bagged form to the local horse and dairy operations, etc. for bedding material.
I'm told they have some deal with a big company in a major city whereby they take scrap wood (pallets, crates, etc.) out of the conventional waste stream and divert it to their own use. They grind the scrap wood, pass it under an electro-magnet to remove metal and then convert it to pellets, thereby passing the savings on. One man's waste is another man's heating source, . They package the pellets in old feed sacks, but could put it anything I suppose.
How is it you buy semi loads, do you buy as part of a co-operative or something?
I don't know about availability down there but up here we can gewt add-on units which stand next to a forced air furnace and dump their heat directly into the plenum for distribution as central heating, the oil or whatever else would then just be back-up or supplemental heat. One of these units would be ideal for a drying setup. If you have an outdoor feed bin almost any farm should be able to sell you dried corn for a good price.
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Talk to the nice people at your local feed mill, if they sell bulk corn it HAS to have been dried, they can't put anything too wet in the bins or it will go mouldy and be garbage as feed.
There is another type of stove called a side-draft style multi-fuel stove which will burn wood, pellets, chips, corn kernels or even cobs, or almost anything else flammable which will fit in it for that matter.
The trick to these units is that the fuel is gravity fed from a hopper above the firebox, the fire burns sideways because of the air feed. This means that once you have a fire burning you can put fresh cut green wood into it, the heat of the fire will have dried it BEFORE it gets to the fire, likewise, you can load it with corn straight from the field.
They make free-standing 'stoves' as well as 'furnaces', they even have a water heating jacket option I think, prices run from about US$750 to US$1850 depnding on model.
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