And how do you store and handle it.
 The first few years, I hauled my "grain cart" to the neighbors every couple weeks for a fill up and put the corn in the basement a bucket at a time to clean the fines thru a home made screen. Then I vacuumed it from one bucket, into another by way of this PVC thing I made, then dump it in the stove hopper.
 I got tired of handling everything 3 times, so I started playing around with my vac set up adding a plastic drum to catch the clean corn.
 I also added a cyclone in line with the vac, so I don't have to clean corn dust and red dog from the vac filter every week.
 This year, I got a bulk bin free, from a neighbor that quit the hog business and set it up outside, next to my old "coal shut" I made for back when I burned wood.
 The built a new bottom for the bin, adding a 3 inch floor flange. I hammer drilled a hole pattern in the concrete and broke it out with my air chisel and fitted 3 inch PVC into the basement from the bulk bin.
 I filled the bulk bin one day last fall and have clean corn in my basement without leaving the house.
 A video in the following pic album shows the Allis All Crop 60 bin I saved from a scrap pile behind my wife's grandpas barn over 40 years ago. It also shows the make shift screen sorter I added to get small cracked kernels out and the vac system filing my barrel. I take corn out of the barrel by way of a slide shut off  underneath.
 Everything I read about corn burners said to burn clean corn, or the fines and dust will build up in the stove auger and can lock it up, burning the motor out.
 Longest winded post I ever made, but BABY it's COLD outside and I ain't got much else to do for a few days.
 Link to picture album, if it works: https://photos.app.goo.gl/pYNgfRGCfyoaN3jk6

i have an old case combine hopper with auger that my neighbor used to fill his wheat drill.  about 12 bushel.  He wouldnt sell me one of his gravity wagons but gave this old tender to me.  The auger tube is rusted through at the elbow where it angles up at the back of the hopper.  I hung a screen from the inside of a burned air filter at an angle under this hole and crank the auger to fill a 5 gallon bucket.  the fines fall through and the corn travels into the bucket.  carry bucket to stove and dump.  i run mine as supplemental so only about a bucket a day.  if it was more,  i would do someting different.

Your photos link works fine, video even works. Very nice setup. Didn't include a picture of the burner tho.

Edited by chaskaduo - 22 Jan 2019 at 2:19pm

chaskaduo wrote: Your photos link works fine, video even works. Very nice setup. Didn't include a picture of the burner tho.

Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 22 Jan 2019 at 7:35pm

My corn doesn't cost me anything but some of my time. I chase the combine with a Green tractor and do some tillage work for my GOOD neighbor. I get corn for heat and some pork or beef whenever he butchers.
 The first 3 years, I had a lot more cleaning to do. He ran a JD 9500 with lots of hours on it, and the operator, most the time , was the original owner of the combine, trying to run it like he did when it was new. Lots of cob,and broken leaves and a good amount of cracked kernels.
 Last fall he sold that Green and bought a Massey from a local guy that retired. The new operator this year, was the original owner of the Massey, and he  put some nice clean corn in the wagons for us. He had me run it for a few hours and that might be my job next year. I just have to learn a bit more about the computer so I can input the right farm we are working in each day.

I have thought about it but that's as far as it got. I have a 2 acre patch at the farm that is too small and irregular for the tenant to farm and it just gets mowed. I have burned ear corn in the outdoor boiler just playen around. You dont want the smoke blowing toward the house when burning it on the ear as it sure enough don't smell too good

I can have a grapple load of logs brought in a stacked right beside the stove for less than $500. If I get tired of cutting down and hauling my own, that's probably the route I will take,about 8 cords. Cant spend much to go the corn route for that kind of money.

Dad burned corn for a while.  Not a very positive experience.

Dad had a ~5 ton hopper right out side a "window" with a plywood cover over it.  Take the cover off, slide a chute under the discharge, turn auger on.  Fill 5 ton hopper no more than 2 times a year.  We would smile and relax on how much easier it was than cutting wood!

jaybmiller wrote: curious,anyone know the true costs of growing your own corn for heating? seed, planting fuel, fert/weedkiller,harvest fuel,storage/cleaning... vs buying ? Jay

Edumcate  me.  What has to be different for pellets and corn burning. I would expect there are different amounts of heat per unit so the auger speed would change but I thought that was how you adjust the heat output.

Charlie,
I didn't even think about static problems! Wow. It would of surprised me!
Mike

desertjoe wrote:  I was at the hardware store last week and noticed the pellets were up to $6.49 for 40# bag,,,whew,,,,!!

 I go to Farm and Fleet and buy my whole year supply for $3.99. I use about 1 bag a year to light my stove.
Farm and Fleets current add:

Easy Heat Premium Grade Wood Fuel Pellets

As said, most corn stove are corn/pellet stoves. Pellet stove won't burn corn.

Allis dave wrote: As said, most corn stove are corn/pellet stoves. Pellet stove won't burn corn. The corn stove has an agitator in the burn pot to stir it. Without it the corn just burn in a big piles and overflows the pot. The corn makes a lot more ash. On pellets I can burn for 1-2 weeks without cleaning out ashes. Corn needs to be cleaned 1-2x's per day. My cleaning is easy. I have one of those little garden scoops for planting tomatoes. Put on a welding glove and take out a couple scoops. I never shut mine down unless it serious or I need to clean the chimney pipe.

 I don't have an agitator. I dump the clinker once a day, when I go down to fill the hopper. It will burn for  at least 48 hours without dumping the clicker, but it gets so thick and solid, I have a hard time knocking it down to the ash pan. It kinda grows into the small holes in the burn pot and gets stuck.
 I shut mine off for a couple minutes to let the fire burn down a bit. Then just pull the rod out, and the bottom of the fire pot slides away, dropping the clinker in the ash pan. I empty the ash pan about every 5 days. Starting it up only takes a minute, so it's no big deal.
 With the old wood stove, I cleaned the chimney at least once a month. This thing gets cleaned good before the first fire in the fall(should be the last fire in the spring) and maybe once during mid winter I do a quick chimney sweep.

I took the firebox out last year and polished it up as best I could. It didn't seem to help much. If I dump the clincker once every 24 hours or so, I just poke it with an old stove poker, and it falls out. If I let it go 36 to 40 hours, it comes out kinda hard most times.
 I have no problem spending 6 to 8 minutes a day, to go down and dump it, reload the stove,  re-light it and refill my clean corn barrel.
 I also have the slide in shelf thingy that is supposed to catch the corn and let you keep the fire going. I don't use it, because it takes longer to wait for enough build up on it to make it work, than it does to just drop what's in there and re-light it.     
 I relight with a single sheet of newspaper and a quarter cup of wood pellets. I spend less than $10 a season on wood pellets and hand sanitizer to relight the thing.