Yesterday was a beautiful and usually warm day here in Michigan. I decided to get a head start on getting some corn moved and cleaned and in the basement.
My Father-in-Law farms and I buy corn from him, it's great but his corn is.......well, lets just say it needs a bit of cleaning! The first year I was getting it out of a old gravity box backed into a old half fallen, mud and mice infested building that was sure to get you a guaranteed trip to an ER for stitches if you did not pay attention! I would get about 8 bushels at a time and keep it in the back of my Avalanche in storage totes, this would get me a weeks worth. It worked but wow, when the snow was deep.... , and I always needed more when I had just worked a 12+ hour day....
The second year, I bought me a gravity box and Dad filled it I though this would be great, I could have it at the end or the driveway! No more maze through a rendition of some kind of "SAW" movie to get corn each week! "Wrong"..... the wife didn't like the idea of this "ugly box" in the driveway. No problem, "I'll keep it down to the barn but not in the barn," this work out better, the corn was dry and easy to get at, I even had some help cleaning it from the freezing cold winter wind and I made a nice screen to aid in removing some of the stalks and cob.
Last year, Dad didn't fill my gravity box, don't know why for sure but It was back to the barn death trip thing again and by the middle of the winter I was going up and down a ladder to get it out of a semi truck!

So..... this year I recruited my only child left at home and her boyfriend and we hauled and cleaned about 50 bushel of corn! I had 1 nice plastic 55 gallon drum, and 2 of those big trash bins on wheels left behind by the last two trash service company's bought out by a bigger company.
We made 3 trips and cleaned it as we took it out of the truck. Now with burning a 50/50 mix of cherry pits and corn, I have close to 2 1/2 months of fuel depending of the weather.
I enjoy seeing other members transfer and storage methods on this site too.
Oh, by the way.... if you were wondering about the "death barn" this year? Yes, it's still there but I spent 2 hours making a safe and somewhat easier method of getting corn out of the truck this year AND dad had the corn cleaned so it is not as bad as it has been!

You mentioned your successful mixture of half corn and half cherry pits. Have you ever tried 100% cherry pits?
I plan to try my first cherry pits after I run out my corn (last season's). It's a Bixby 115; I realize it's not the same as yours, but I would appreciate your mix suggestions.

WNYcorn

Hi!
Yes, I did try 100% pits and I had to burn them solely until this week. They burn great and hot too, but I had to preform a full cleaning including a good exhaust brush and blow every night when I got home from work otherwise the stove would get too dirty and not burn good. I also had to spoon out a good share of ash out of the firebox every morning to allow a good combustion air flow. Otherwise it worked out until I got fresh corn. When I use the 50/50 mix the corn allows the air to flow through the firebox and allow a complete combustion and with little ash build up, I can't go a whole week without a full cleaning, it is about every 4 days or so. I like the pits due to the price of corn now! Try them out, you may have better success with you stove since mine is made for corn only.