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Corn-Buring Stove Heats Shop Floor
Doug Baum, Tallula, Ill., uses water heated by a corn burning stove to warm the shop floor in his 52 by 72-ft. building used as a car and truck body repair shop.
His "Amaiz-Ing Heat" furnace, manufactured by Big M Mfg. Co., Taylorville, Ill., is housed inside a small shed at one end of the building. Shelled corn in a bulk bin next to the shed is fed by a 2-in. dia. auger. Hot water from the corn-fired boiler is then forced through 4,500 ft. of polybutylene pipe that Baum laid under the concrete floor in runs spaced 1 ft. apart. The pipe is laid in "zones" that can be con-trolled individually by shut-off valves.
Baum fired up the furnace for the first time early last November. The ground al-ready had cooled a lot so it took a little longer than he had expected to heat the floor. Apparently some of the heat was absorbed by the ground even though the entire floor area has 1 in. of Styrofoam insulation under it. He says the corn burns cleanly with very little ash. Baum empties the stove's small ash tray just twice a week.
The furnace is rated at 100,000 btu's. It burns 45 to 50 bu. of corn per week in the coldest weather.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Doug Baum, Rt. 1, Box 110, Tallula, Ill. 62688 (ph 217 632-3385).


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1996 - Volume #20, Issue #3