So today i kicked up to 180 then turned it off to do some more plumbing in the house now i have in floor and upstairs WOW what a day all i have to do is light er up again

this is not really on topic but who lives close to stetsonville wi or at least sorta close

I live close to there. my buddy has a shop in town. what do you need?

i need to show some one this machine it is driving me nuts that i want to share with someone but not a company yet

homemade wrote:


I run my boiler between 160 and 180 depending on the outside temp.. I have my min return temp set at 140. I circulate 8 gpm at best and sometimes the house requires some serious btus.

Do you know Paul Socwell?

For others to view? If you save the assembly as an ".easm" file, you can download a free viewer.

Or if you just want a backup file, make it an attachment in your next post. Either way, please do, I would love to see it.

Started the homemade boiler last Tuesday for the forth year. Last year it used 100 bushel corn and a pickup load of wood to heat the 40 by 45 shop. Had to replace the 6 in flue as it rotted out over summer, I use galv heating pipe as it does not get that hot, flue temps around 280, it rots from the moisture and acids. I have had very good luck with using heavy aluminized automotive type exhaust pipe inside the boiler, going on four years and it looks good yet. I have been collecting parts to bulid a bigger one somewhat like the Garn but with the price of corn and these newer heat pumps that work to 18 below zero have me thinking that solar storage with a dish concentrator maybe a more cost effective route.

Homemade, you look to have found that the hotter you keep the pot the better it burns, preheating the combustion air helps too, But the key is to not just to burn but to burn everything that is gassing off too. Then work to keep the heat from going up the stack and wasting that five dollar corn.
Sounds like you are using a stir type auger, keep in mind they are pron to heat damage and normally do not last too long. I use what I call a semi fluidized bed and it works very well, self cleaning , it has never been cleaned in four years. It has burned everything put in it but coal, it does not burn well in this design, It burns waste oil nicely too! Corn can burn very hot, in my first design I was able to melt spots in 3/8 inch steel, I did all my experimenting in the shop. Personally I would never put my homemade burner in my house or attached garage. Even thou I think it would be safe. Working in Eng I would be the first to admit that it has not been fully tested and there may have been something that I missed. I am not willing to bet my family or my life on it. Have fun and happy burning! Be carefull!

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now you got my attention, what is fluidized bed, seems like a good idea, my stirer i built is 1 in col roll steel haven't broke it now for going on three years

ok when i have a hopper keep fill on a timer, i need to remember to turn that switch on ran out last night fricking 58 degrees in here already have it back burning hmm, dangers of beer