If you build another bin consider a Shivvers drying system. Those stirators will become a pain in the but. I have seen where the auger will get crooked enough and drill a hole in the side of the bin.
Advice... if you're building a 30000 bu bin go for 40 or 50. You can never have enough space and you will always use. We had a 20, 40 and 50000 and we were going to build another 50. the salesman talked us into a 100000 bu. Best decision we ever made.
You're lucky you didn't break the gear box. I have a DMC drying system in my drying bin, 2 tapered augers rotate on the floor. To start them up, after grain has been sitting on top of them for any length of time, they have a break bar you use on the belt pulley to loosen them up. It is a far better dry system than using those stir augers. You side walls will be soaking wet when you get done drying. If you leave the corn in the bin for any length on time, it's spoiled, & your bin sheets will rust. So the last bin full of corn that i put in the drying bin is nearly dry corn, like 16%. As a dry system, the DMC or Sukup brand, your bin is a continuous full drying set up. Hot corn goes out to your other storage bins.
would you consider a grain leg for bins makes it nice and but we use trucks to haul crops pull in with grain truck or semi and grain trailer or dump trailer turn on put it on which bin you want to fill and away you go and can load trucks from it. on one they have at sons place has a little bin on top fill it pull truck under and way you go . he has 1wet bin has same set up gsi dryer then rest of bins use big dryer from gsi intbetween bins of the 5 at his dads he uses GSI for grain bins well just ideas as you look to future ...oh a good thing with grain leg you can set truck or wagon to unload slow to not overflow and go do chores for a couple min while truck unloads Travis i like your videos .
That is one clean bin! Did your mom and Brittany shop vac every kernal off the floor?? I`ve swept out alot of bins in my days, and I am thurough, and I never had a floor that clean when I was done cleaning out a bin....
Report published by U of Mich (2015) indicates grain bins of 30-40 K and smaller capacity are almost the same cost per bushel due to infrastructure. Bins greater than 50 K indicate substantial cost reduction per bushel. All depends upon the budget allocated for one's needs.
Would a "leg" ever be in your foreseeable future to help distribute your grains between bins from a single unloading station? You have the elevator now, true. As you approach your target acreage total, will a 30k bin be enough to handle all your corn along with the current bins, especially if your yields happen to pick up?
Matthew Hoag when we built our 100000 bu bin we looked at a leg but went with a pneumatic system that moves the corn between the bins, dryer and from the trucks. it works great. Loading the trucks out we either use the side dump or the vertical auger.
Electric or propane burner? Is the reason to keep the corn on the farm to be able to sell it when you want to for influx of capital for the farming operation and also to sell at the best price? Thanks! Also hope Brittany's arm is finally healing up!
Thanks Jeff. I thought it would be gas of some sort. Years ago my Uncle a peanut farmer partially dried his peanuts before taking them to market. It was basically the same principle with one difference. The peanuts were loaded in the wagons with a screen floor in the field and pulled to the dryer in a shed.
One more advantage of that unloader, electricity is cheaper than diesel.
Thanks...I remember when it was put in...good refresher and a little finer detail on how it works. Thanks Travis
As if talking to yourself with a camera isn't bad enough, then you find out it didn't record or you forgot to push record.... LOL
Appreciate all the videos you take time to craft. A wealth of insight is imparted. Again, THANKS !!
Great video Travis! Thanks for the second take!!!
If you build another bin consider a Shivvers drying system. Those stirators will become a pain in the but. I have seen where the auger will get crooked enough and drill a hole in the side of the bin.
gttarus1 or they snap off.
Nice Bin! And thanks for the retake we appreciate it!
That's neat. The farm I work on has a typical corn dryer and one of the neighbours had one of these always wanted to check it out.
We could use 2 of those!!
Advice... if you're building a 30000 bu bin go for 40 or 50. You can never have enough space and you will always use. We had a 20, 40 and 50000 and we were going to build another 50. the salesman talked us into a 100000 bu. Best decision we ever made.
You're lucky you didn't break the gear box. I have a DMC drying system in my drying bin, 2 tapered augers rotate on the floor. To start them up, after grain has been sitting on top of them for any length of time, they have a break bar you use on the belt pulley to loosen them up. It is a far better dry system than using those stir augers. You side walls will be soaking wet when you get done drying. If you leave the corn in the bin for any length on time, it's spoiled, & your bin sheets will rust. So the last bin full of corn that i put in the drying bin is nearly dry corn, like 16%. As a dry system, the DMC or Sukup brand, your bin is a continuous full drying set up. Hot corn goes out to your other storage bins.
would you consider a grain leg for bins makes it nice and but we use trucks to haul crops pull in with grain truck or semi and grain trailer or dump trailer turn on put it on which bin you want to fill and away you go and can load trucks from it. on one they have at sons place has a little bin on top fill it pull truck under and way you go . he has 1wet bin has same set up gsi dryer then rest of bins use big dryer from gsi intbetween bins of the 5 at his dads he uses GSI for grain bins well just ideas as you look to future ...oh a good thing with grain leg you can set truck or wagon to unload slow to not overflow and go do chores for a couple min while truck unloads Travis i like your videos .
That is one clean bin! Did your mom and Brittany shop vac every kernal off the floor?? I`ve swept out alot of bins in my days, and I am thurough, and I never had a floor that clean when I was done cleaning out a bin....
Report published by U of Mich (2015) indicates grain bins of 30-40 K and smaller capacity are almost the same cost per bushel due to infrastructure. Bins greater than 50 K indicate substantial cost reduction per bushel. All depends upon the budget allocated for one's needs.
Love that introduction. lol
Can you convert one of the harvestor silo into a bin?
Good Day.
Hi Travis
Great video i agree with your 30000 bushel bin idea
Do you fill all them full???
Travis would you ever get a leg if your operation got that big?
Would a "leg" ever be in your foreseeable future to help distribute your grains between bins from a single unloading station? You have the elevator now, true. As you approach your target acreage total, will a 30k bin be enough to handle all your corn along with the current bins, especially if your yields happen to pick up?
Matthew Hoag when we built our 100000 bu bin we looked at a leg but went with a pneumatic system that moves the corn between the bins, dryer and from the trucks. it works great. Loading the trucks out we either use the side dump or the vertical auger.
I will admit, I've never seen one of those in action. Care to post a video of it?
Electric or propane burner? Is the reason to keep the corn on the farm to be able to sell it when you want to for influx of capital for the farming operation and also to sell at the best price? Thanks! Also hope Brittany's arm is finally healing up!
jbmbanter dryers are almost all propane or natural gas.
Thanks Jeff. I thought it would be gas of some sort. Years ago my Uncle a peanut farmer partially dried his peanuts before taking them to market. It was basically the same principle with one difference. The peanuts were loaded in the wagons with a screen floor in the field and pulled to the dryer in a shed.
Now days the peanuts at whatever moisture content are taken straight from the field to the market with no drying.
knock out the concrete silo and the wood shed and put in the new bin
Are your grain bins interconnected to each other or are they independent to each other?
Thank you!
what laws do you have to follow for selling cow corn ?
I don't know how they accomplished it but there is a farm about 30 miles from me that converted their cement and harvestor silos to grain storage.
Your stir augers are high off the floor
Hey Travis! I bought a John Deere 4940 sprayer. Penny for Your thoughts?
Blue Fox1 good for you
give it a few years when u get some wear on the stirrators.. almost guarantee you will be cussing them...i forsee a stand alone dryer in the future