My maxim 250 is using bout 2 bushel a day to heat approx 4000 sq feet. How does this compare to everyone else. Its been really cold here(Indiana) the last few weeks.

hey Pip,

i have a cast iron Harman Accentra insert and am using around 100# in 24 Hrs. to heat almost 3000 sq ft. mixing corn and pellets 50/50 house stays around 68 to 73 degrees

that seems pretty good pipps, I think I'm around 3 1/2 to 4 bushels a day here in michigan. I'm heating 2800 sq/ft ranch and 800 sq ft garage........its been cold here also. its like january weather arrived in december

pippsfarm wrote:


That sounds good if the weather has been like n.w. Ohio.
Your house must be pretty tight.

I haven't kept track this year. Ill do some math when the first wagon is empty. If the weather stays the way it is is will use more than last year 275 bu.

Tim

I'm sure impressed with my little girl...since we started heating in Nov. and yeppers, it has been cold in northern Indiana...we've burned less than 25 bushels. Of course, I'm only heating half of the area most of you have. Even tho the house is 110 yrs old, we've rebuilt just about every inch of our 1 1/2 story Cape Cod. So she's insulated as well as she can be with fairly new windows. The most I've added to the Bixby in one day...45#. Little girl usually burns on level one...we've only gone to level 2 when the temps reach the teens. She keeps the house toasty, mid 70's mostly altho today she's not heating it quite as well. It's been a few weeks since the last cleaning so I just turned her off to cool. She'll be happy again and kicking out lots of heat in a few hours...

2 bushels / day seems really good to me. I'm burning pellets this year, and burning 120 lbs / day right now, sometimes 160 lbs when the wind is bad.

Three bushels a day till warmup, 2300 sq. ft.

I have a Maxim 175, heating approx 2200sq feet at 72deg anywhere from 60-80lbs of wood a day depending on the outside temp.

jdeere, your correct--wind is my enemy. When the wind blows I can always count on putting in an extra bucket of corn.

I have another question for everyone. I have never cleaned my corn. In fact I had my gravity wagon filled right out of the combine last fall. I figure if its carbon based its gonna burn. Its been 2 years now and never had a problem. The auger on the maxin is pretty big and I feel thats the reason I have not had a problem. Beeswing, fines, dust, small cobs, pieces of corn stalk it all seem to burn just fine. Do all you fellow corn burners clean your corn?