My maxim 175 burns it straight out of the combine. Two years and no problems!!!!!

pippsfarm wrote:


i don't clean mine either except when it gets right to the bottom of the bin and it looks like 50% dust and 50% corn thats just to much dust and it wants to put the fire out. otherwise its beewings, fines dust, smallcobs etc.....burns just fine

I don't clean a bit of corn going into my Maxim 175. In fact we took some corn straight off of a test plot this year that was run off by a reasearch combine. The corn was full of stalks, some reaching upwards of 8 inches in length, and didn't have a single problem.

My Bixby stove now that is a different story. I have to be very selective on what on burn in there, the cleaner the better.

Sure wish I had another Maxim to heat my house!!

I never have cleaned corn. Straight from combine to wagon to boiler if the moisture is good. Last year it had to be dried.

No pluggage. I have had accorns bridge the Hopper intake when I ran a few bushel through this fall.

Tim

I also have never cleaned my corn granted its my first year but havent had a problem yet and there is a lot of cob peices and small peices of stalk in my corn. well i take that back the other day the auger quit it popped the little hairpin out of the motor drive shaft cleened out the hopper and found a pabst blue ribbon cap guess thats what i get for drinking while filling my stove with corn:) .

Have had the maxim 4 years now
Never had to clean the corn
That is what is so nice about them
running 20-25 t per year through it
Had the combustion fan pack it in on us just before christmas this year
But after running 24/7 for 4 years I have no complaints

I have never cleaned my corn. I have had a piece of cob get sort of wedged into the auger a couple of times, making it get a little loud and complain when the auger turned. My Maxim sits about 6 feet from my bedroom window so I hear stuff like that in the middle of the night. Anyway it complained a bit but I was too lazy to do anything about it and within 15 minutes the cob was ejected into the burn pot and everything was back to normal.

Sort of like when I eat too much cheese......

Well the old Maxim is pumping out the heat tonight
Feed all on max except high 3 from top
-29 c -20.2 f tonight
Burned 1 hopper of corn 11 hours
Gotto watch when you open the door the fire comes right out at ya

ayrporte wrote:


Wow. The most I've burned is 5bu in any 24 hr time
It has happened a few times when the weather gets nasty.

How much air at normal and hi?

Stay warm

Tim

Air is at green on all settings
- 32 this morning -27 F