Jump at it! Even if it needs a blower or two it's still a good deal! I paid close to 900$ for mine 4 years ago. The good thing about them is the simplicity of the components in these stoves. Good Luck and keep us informed.

That is VERY NICE! Good Job!

Hey Firepotpete,
I burn a mix of about 60% corn / 40% pits and it works great in a clinker pot. I have a cornflame 3000 and using the mix I get a nice clinker, it's softer than the corn clinker but it holds together nice enough to pull out with tongs. I do find myself cleaning a bit more often due to more ash produced but its worth it to me. I also stir the bottom of the clinker pot good after removing the clinker. I tried to burn 100% Pits and did for a few weeks until I got some corn but it was a cleaning every night..... try them in a mix, you will like them!
Jeff

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.

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!

Shoe, welcome!!!
Thanks for writing this, I was laughing and really enjoyed the read even without the pictures!

Hello Xabub,

I am in Michigan too, near Alma. 240/ton is not horrible as long as it is not real "cobby" and crap. If you need a easy to build cleaner that works great with a shop vac, check out my profile and look for my cleaner. I just cleaned about 50 bushel this afternoon in a couple hours and it is CLEAN!
Also, I have the same stove as you but built under "CornFlame" brand name and I burn 50% cherry pits with great success in my stove. Keeps the corn a bit more reasonable and you can get cherry pits at Family Farm & Home for 4.19 per 40lb bag. The pits burn HOT too!

Hey allenelson,

Hello, I have a corn flame 3000 too and I have bought some parts from the guy listed below. I bought a new potientiometer for the fuel control and a spare timer as well. He don't take credit cards so you have to send him a check and when it clears he will send the parts but he is the only one I have found so far that carry's some of the controls parts and he is a friendly guy too. I have found the room air blower and the purge/combustion blower on Ebay but I have not found the auger motor yet so if you find that spare part, please let me know.
By the way, with corn prices the way they are, I have found great success burning a 50/50 mix of corn and cherry pits in this stove, I have been getting a 40lb bag of pits at Farm & Family Home for $4.19/bag. I have to clean just a bit more often but that is it. I can burn 100% pits but this requires a full cleaning every day including a good brush and air blow on the exhaust and my exhaust is only 20" long so if you have a longer pipe I would not recommend you try 100% pits. Keep in touch if you have any further needs.
Jeff

Almetto G & B Products
106 N. Hampton St.
Kershaw, SC 29067
(803) 475- 8766

Stained glass and don't want to use chemical cleaner?
I was that way and then happened to think of trying a magic eraser with water.... Wallah... a few minutes later it was gone! Brand New Looking!

Are they good pellets? The price seems good!

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Well Nogas you are right about that ash thing....
First night burning all cherry pits was a good trial. To sum it up a few words... They burn good and hot although I didn't have my stove fuel setting any higher than 2. I left it burning all day today at that setting and it burned up almost all of the 33lbs that it took to fill the hopper 24 hours ago, but the ash is 4X that of what I get burning corn. I mixed corn and pits for
tonight and I am going to continue to burn all night on a fuel setting of 3 and see how much more ash develops overnight.
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The picture shows the ash buildup on the door ledge, I have never seen that!




One thing is for sure, the pits burn and leave no clinker, just ash!!!
I am happy with the heat output though!

It's officially the start of the heating season for me now too. A cold damp rainy day forced me to light it up! I'm on pit's and burning good!

My best friend and I seen this on UTUBE so I will not take the credit for it, who ever did come up with it was quite smart. I did improve on a few things though. One thing I could not find was a 3"X 1 1/2 "Y" so I used a 3X3. Worked out fine but I have a 6.0 vacuum otherwise I might be loosing too much vacuum out the top. I used old arrow shafts to act as the tumbling aids instead of buying wooden dowels, "I'm cheap!"
The vacuum breaker on the top is just a cap that I drilled through the cap and the short PVC extension. I just turn this to expose more or less holes, when you stop feeling corn getting sucked up the hose, your there!!!
Enjoy the picture and steal the idea folks, it works great!

I hear you all...
It's getting close here in Michigan too, nights are starting to dip into the mid 40's, we have had one good frost.
The frost helped knock the mosquitoes down a bit! It won't be long now before I light mine up if nothing more than to take the chill & dampness out of the house. We have been lucky lately, the sun pops out for a couple hours each day to assist in keeping the house warm!

I am been doing alot of research and I plan on trying a couple bags of cherry pits, they are 220/ton and I figure I can heat for around $800.00 this season. I,m all ready for some cold night to see how they preform against corn..... I have 3 years of data to compare against cherry pit performance, Ill let you know what I think of them,