Corny Tools of the Trade
A potpourri of tools, machines, and gadgets used with corn
Info About Corn as a Home Heating Fuel
Burning Shelled Corn as Fuel- Probably the most comprehensive source of information about this alternative heating fuel.
Corn-Based Home Heating Systems
- Alternative Heating Systems
- Gas, wood, corn, and pellet stoves and fireplaces.
- Amaizablaze Corn Stoves
- Cookeville, Tennessee
- Countryside Corn / Wood Pellet Stove
- American Energy Systems, Inc.
- Dansons Glowboy Corn Pellet Stoves
- Alberta, CANADA
- Dell-Point Stoves
- Canada
- Earth Sense Energy Systems
- Claims to be the Midwest's largest dealer of pellet and corn stoves and furnaces.
- Envirotec Corn Stoves
- London, Ontario, Canada
- Golden Grain Corn Stove
- Sterling, Colorado
- Grain Stoves Inc.
- Burn wheat, rye and corn grain.
- Harman Stove Company
- Halifax, Pennsylvania
- Maryland Corn Stoves
- Corn stoves from companies like Amaizablaze, Harman and Bixby.
- Rural Energy Products
- Located in Van Wert, OH, Rural Energy Products sells corn/biomass heating stoves, corn/biomass heating furnaces, and corn/biomass heating boilers.
Corn Roasters
- Belson Corn and Potato Roaster
- "Designed to roast corn, potatoes, chicken, roasts, fish and vegetables."
- Mobile Grills, Inc.
- "...mobile catering grills built in the USA."
- Texas Corn Roasters
- Claim to be able to "...cook up to 600 ears of corn per hour."
- The Original Corn Roast Machine
- Claims to be "the 'cadillac' of corn roasters."
Popcorn Machines
- Cretors Popcorn Machines
- A leading manufacturer of popcorn production and concession equipment for over 100 years.
- Weiner Popcorn Machines
- Manufacturers of commercial grade popcorn poppers.
Huskers & Shellers
- Bourgoin Stationary Corn Sheller
- Manufactured in France.
- Bourgoin Stationary Corn Husker
- Manufactured in France and promoted for use by seed corn producing companies.
- Bourgoin Bamba Tropical Sheller
- Manufactured in France and promoted for use in the tropics for shelling african millet, sorghum, maize, cow pea, bean, rice and wheat.
- Ear Corn Sheller
- Powered by electric motor or gas engine, distributed by Seedburo Equipment, manufactured by Almaco.
- Grinders and Shellers at Stromberg's
- Hand-operated or powered devices.
- Hand-Held Corn Shellers
- A brief essay from the American Artifacts Web site on early American corn shelling inventions, with links to photos and descriptions of the many varied versions of this venerable corn tool.
- Hand-Operated Corn Sheller
- From Gempler's
- Rocky Top Corn Mill and Sheller
- Hand-operated equipment.
- Tabletop-Mounted Corn Sheller
- From Routhiau Outillage, a French hardware retail store relying on 140 years expertise in manually forged tools.
Miscellaneous
- Lee's Corn Cutter
- "... cuts, shreds and scrapes grains of corn off ears..."
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