Outdoor Corn-Fired Boiler
We use an outdoor corn-fired boiler to heat our home, our shed, our hot water, and our hot tub, our swimming pool. The boiler we use is manufactured by EZBurn Manufacturing, Inc. We own the company, MDH (My Dear Husband) is the manufacturer. We'd love for you to see the stoves, please visite EZBurn.com to see details.
We use an outdoor corn-fired boiler to heat our home, our shed, our hot water, and our hot tub, our swimming pool. The boiler we use is manufactured by EZBurn Manufacturing, Inc. We own the company, MDH (My Dear Husband) is the manufacturer. We'd love for you to see the stoves, please visite EZBurn.com to see details.
Our outdoor corn stove is located in a shed that we built specifically to house the stove and the corn storage bin. (There's a picture of the corn stove shed top left of this screen) Inside the shed is a corn storage bin which holds 200 bushels. That's the top of the grain bin sticking out the roof, I painted the galvanized steel to blend it with the shed.
MDH fills the bin using an auger and gravity feed trailer that our corn provider loans us whenever we purchase the corn. We buy our corn from a farmer who lives about 10 miles away.
This text is a description of a unit MDH built which he will use to keep the corn stove full all the time. Before we had this device, MDH would fill the hopper of the corn stove using his electric auger. The auger extended from the bottom of the grain bin over the hopper of the corn stove. And periodically MDH would have to check to see if the hopper was getting low on corn and turn on his auger to fill the hopper. Making sure to stand by so that the corn didn't overflow.
Now, with this device, the hopper will have corn in it to a specific level as long as there is corn in the bin. (There's always a gotcha......) The unit operates like so: if the corn is out of the tube, and the thermostat in the house calls for heat then it will start filling because the switch turns on.
When the level of the corn gets up to the level of the tube, the tube is filled and then the switch shuts off the auger. Here is a picture of the stove storage bin with the tube that fills it.
Here is a picture of the auger coming off the storage bin
Here is a picture of the motor and everything hooked up to that tube.
The switch that controls if the auger is on or off, is in the white box with red label.
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