how well does corn cobs burn?

[Deleted member 83629]

thought i would ask i know a guy up the road who has a bunch.

 

[turnkey4099]

thought i would ask i know a guy up the road who has a bunch.

Never tried them but I do know that that they were used in cookstoves. I suspect you would be kept busy feeding the fire.

Harry K

 

[Deleted member 83629]

Well i looked up there heat output dried corn cobs put out 8,000 BTU per lb they produce very little ash and burn hot.
I plan to use these in my tiny shed stove which won't be in a lot use compared to the stove in the house.

 

[Whitespider]

Back-in-the-day, 'round here, when corn was picked and then shelled in separate operations, there would be small mountains of corn cobs sitting in or around the farm yards after fall shelling. They had several uses... yes, they were used in the outhouse, usually a batch or two of corn cob jelly was made (if you had the sugar), sometimes they were used for livestock bedding. But the majority of 'em were used as fuel... burned in wood stoves, coal stoves, even shoveled into the coal furnace at times.

They make great fire starters... they're absorbent, soak 'em in kerosine or the like.
If ya' spend any fall time in the fields and woods you've likely gotten your cloths covered in burrs, stickers, and clinging seeds many times. Pickin' them off one at a time is... well... a PITA. So here's a handy little trick... a rough, dry corn cob will usually clean 'em right of with just a few swipes... Ma' Nature's cloths brush‼
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[allstihl]

I take any I can get .they burn well and I use some in the smoker .

 

[Homelite410]

They are fantastic! Hot, they make a great "wick" to start a fire with and we grind them in a burr mill for the chicken coop floor.

 

[rancher2]

They were mostly burned in cook stoves were I grew up. A lot of cobs were run threw grinders and blended in to cattle feed. Then milo and combines come to the area and people had a hard time finding cobs for there cook stoves. The old corn cribs started to disappear from the farm years.

 

[Deleted member 83629]

well i can get enough to get me through the better part of november and part of december.

 

[Deleted member 83629]

a older man raises corn for his hobby chicken farm and he shells the corn out by his shelling machine.
these are gaint cobs also big yellow dent corn.

 

[sam-tip]

Lots of bacon and ham is still smoked with corn cobs.

Great fire starter.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Burn well when dry and put out more heat than snowballs.