He Uses Planter Unit To Burn Shelled Corn

1996 - Volume #20, Issue #1, Page #03

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"I call it my Kernel Kremator and it's just an easy and simple way to burn shelled corn in the oil burning stove I use to heat my shop," says Melvin Van Haneghan, Palmyra, N.Y.
"Last winter, while cleaning my shop, I found some old seed corn. Knowing that there are a number of stoves out now that burn shelled corn, I dumped a cupful of kernels into the burn pot in my oil stove. The immediate intense heat made me worry about a melt-down in the stove, but it also prompted me to get to work on a device that would automatically feed shelled corn into that burner.
"I now use a planter unit from an old IH planter to feed 4.7 lbs. of corn per hour into the stove, turning the driveshaft one revolution per 8 seconds by use of a 100:1 speed reducer, belt-driven by a small electric motor. The motor is wired to the terminals of the burner motor on the oil stove so I was able to take advantage of the thermostat on the oil burner to start and stop my corn feeder, making the entire unit automatic. I found that a .50 oil nozzle is more than adequate to incinerate the 4.7 lbs. of corn per hour.
"Feeding corn in gradually like this eliminates any clinkers in the stove - there's only a black dust residue. There are no harmful fumes. It burns totally clean. The planter unit is placed a few feet away from the stove and the corn gravity feeds down into it. Field corn right out of the combine runs just fine through the planter mechanism with the proper plate installed. I can vary the amount of corn feeding through by changing drive sprockets on the planter or motor shaft.
"At the $2.10 price for corn last year, I found that 19 cents worth of corn equalled 35 cents worth of oil. According to my calculations, with oil at around 70 cents a gal., corn is cheaper to burn up to a price of around $3.90 per bushel."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Melvin Van Haneghan, 3803 Armington Rd., Palmyra, N.Y. 14522 (ph 315 597-5904).

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He Uses Planter Unit To Burn Shelled Corn ENERGY Corn Burning Soves 20-1-3 "I call it my Kernel Kremator and it's just an easy and simple way to burn shelled corn in the oil burning stove I use to heat my shop," says Melvin Van Haneghan, Palmyra, N.Y. "Last winter, while cleaning my shop, I found some old seed corn. Knowing that there are a number of stoves out now that burn shelled corn, I dumped a cupful of kernels into the burn pot in my oil stove. The immediate intense heat made me worry about a melt-down in the stove, but it also prompted me to get to work on a device that would automatically feed shelled corn into that burner. "I now use a planter unit from an old IH planter to feed 4.7 lbs. of corn per hour into the stove, turning the driveshaft one revolution per 8 seconds by use of a 100:1 speed reducer, belt-driven by a small electric motor. The motor is wired to the terminals of the burner motor on the oil stove so I was able to take advantage of the thermostat on the oil burner to start and stop my corn feeder, making the entire unit automatic. I found that a .50 oil nozzle is more than adequate to incinerate the 4.7 lbs. of corn per hour. "Feeding corn in gradually like this eliminates any clinkers in the stove - there's only a black dust residue. There are no harmful fumes. It burns totally clean. The planter unit is placed a few feet away from the stove and the corn gravity feeds down into it. Field corn right out of the combine runs just fine through the planter mechanism with the proper plate installed. I can vary the amount of corn feeding through by changing drive sprockets on the planter or motor shaft. "At the $2.10 price for corn last year, I found that 19 cents worth of corn equalled 35 cents worth of oil. According to my calculations, with oil at around 70 cents a gal., corn is cheaper to burn up to a price of around $3.90 per bushel." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Melvin Van Haneghan, 3803 Armington Rd., Palmyra, N.Y. 14522 (ph 315 597-5904).

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