Shop Vac Used To Fill Cornstove Bin

Shop Vac Used To Fill Cornstove Bin ENERGY Corn Burning Soves 34-5-19 Kevin Heinz likes his cornstove, but his knees didn't like the abuse they endured climbing up and down stairs with 5-gal. buckets to dump 18 bushels of corn into his basement bin. So the Minburn, Iowa, resident built a system that cleans and sucks corn into the bin within half an hour ù without any stair climbing. The setup starts outside ù 35 ft. away from the bin in the basement. Heinz made a sifter with a hardware screen floor to take out fines and other trash. A blower at the end blows chaff away. The good corn flows into a 2-in. electrical pvc pipe that runs through the basement wall and into the plywood bin inside. Heinz made the bin out of 3/4-in. plywood and 2 by 2-in. studs on the corners. Everything is caulked and screwed. The lid has 3/4-in. closed cell foam around the edge to make it fairly airtight. He hooks up his 5 hp shop vacuum to a pvc fitting on the lid. "I just turn on my shop vac and it sucks, and the corn rattles on through and fills the bin up," Heinz says. "Make sure you put a Gore-Tex« filter on the shop vac like you use for sheetrock so you don't blow dust around. They are expensive, but they last forever." The 18-bushel bin lasts 20 to 30 days depending on the temperature. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Kevin Heinz, Box 61, Minburn, Iowa 50167.

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