What causes augers to stall

[grantnelson]

Is the fines, bees wings and other tiny substances or is it the stalks and pieces?

I don't have any problems but I also clean the corn several times when I'm using it instead of rye.
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[Corny]

Grantnelson, my stove has no auger (it uses a ferris wheel to deliver corn) but those people who comment on stalled or noisy augers usually find theirs hung up on a piece of stalk or cob or, heaven forbid, a screw or other piece of metal.
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[tallcorn]

I think the biggest problem with fines, dust, bees wings is in excess they settle along the bottom of the hopper and collect near the throat to the auger. Once there is enough of that material collected it may get dumped in the auger in a slug and when it hits the burn pot the dust won't sustain a burning mass and the fire will go out.
If you have a vertical slant auger the auger can't hold the fines and they eventually block the solid fuel from getting in the auger. Then what fines do get up the auger get dumped down the feed chute stick to the chute and cause erratic fuel feeding by blocking dropping fuel.
Even when you clean your fuel of fines it is a good idea to empty the hopper at intervals and vacuum out any dust and fines that escape removal by the fuel cleaning process.
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[SidecarFlip]

I've been employing the Corny method when getting corn from the tank.

I set my 5 gallon bucket in my wife's Rubbermaid cart (about 3 feet below the spout). Lift the spout and the corn flows into the bucket.

On the way down the prevailing north east wind blows the bees wings and chaff and some cracked corn into the rubbermaid cart around the bucket which I keep exchanging when full, for an empty.

When I get 15- 5 gallon buckets full and in the front loader, I take the rubbermaid cart and dump it in the horse pasture for the Percherons. They clean all the extra's up.

Then I go to the hay barn and get 5- 40 pound bags of pellets. Those too, go in the front loader and off to the deck I go. I lift the whoe shebang right up to deck-door level, no point in working too hard, let the loader do the work....

I mix a pail of corn to 1/3 bag of pellets in a 30 gallon trash can. 15 -5 gallon pails and 5 bags of pellets = 4 -30 gallon plastic garbage cans of mix = about one week of burning.

Got it down to a science.

Checked the east tank this afternoon. I have about 100 bushel left, give or take 10 and a skid and a half of pellets.
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[grantnelson]

thanks guys, good information.
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[sting]

Last week in my case it was an old rusty 4 inch long wood screw


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[slowpok]

I have had alot of cracked corn since I started blowing corn into the bin, and the corn vac is not getting it out when I vac it into the house. I let some get into the Quad and it settled at the bottom of the drop tube and started to burn creating a clinker at the bottom of the tube and thus blocking it up so it would not put any corn into the pot
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