How old is youre dryer

rob h · Aug 18, 2019

Just thinking today how old our grain dryer is .it's a alvan blanch cascade 45 1963.first used 64.dad bought it brand new and it's still going well.every year about now we look at it and say we'll have to get something bigger but it never seems to happen.are there many outhers using dryers of a simaler age or are they long gone

Michael3112 · Aug 18, 2019

rob h said:
Just thinking today how old our grain dryer is .it's a alvan blanch cascade 45 1963.first used 64.dad bought it brand new and it's still going well.every year about now we look at it and say we'll have to get something bigger but it never seems to happen.are there many outhers using dryers of a simaler age or are they long goneView attachment 828290

Used to have similar aged one where i am until last year when it went up in flames which was no bad thing

7610 super q · Aug 18, 2019

We've got a cascade 126 ( 126 cwt / hour ? ) same era, I think. Never used it, looks too complicated ( control panel looks like something from Cape Canaveral ) , and had an international reputation for catching fire. I just hire a mobile, as and when I need it.

Still Farming · Aug 18, 2019

Think ours is billions of years old?
The Sun !

DrWazzock · Aug 18, 2019

Our old Almet. Just dried 40 tons of wheat with it this weekend. 50 plus years old. Still working well.

rob h · Aug 19, 2019

7610 super q said:
We've got a cascade 126 ( 126 cwt / hour ? ) same era, I think. Never used it, looks too complicated ( control panel looks like something from Cape Canaveral ) , and had an international reputation for catching fire. I just hire a mobile, as and when I need it.

Wow that’s. Almost 3 times more than our 45 cwt /hour

rob h · Aug 19, 2019

DrWazzock said:
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Our old Almet. Just dried 40 tons of wheat with it this weekend. 50 plus years old. Still working well.

Good to see a old almet still working they were a lot of them around hear .but most of them went in the scrap years ago

DrWazzock · Aug 19, 2019

rob h said:
Good to see a old almet still working they were a lot of them around hear .but most of them went in the scrap years ago

We rescued it out of a local grain merchants premises in 1985. It was free for anybody who would remove it. It does 3 TPH which is adequate for us. Can get it down 6% in one pass. I use two 10 ton simplex radial blown bins (our old dryer) for cooling. Takes 1.5 hours to cool 20 tons to ambient then off it goes into our longer term store, so all in all I can do 20 tons per day.

radar · Aug 19, 2019

20 tons a day is probably enough this year in view of the hours you can combine in a day!

Happy · Aug 19, 2019

If you fancy an upgrade to something a bit more modern this beauty is currently for sale on Facebook for £1000

chaffcutter · Aug 19, 2019

They’ve had their money’s worth out of that poor machine

Must have dragged it out of the nettles to be in that state.

rob h · Aug 19, 2019

I’ve seen that I didn’t know scrap prices were that good.

7610 super q · Aug 19, 2019

Here's what's left of it. Looking at serial No. made in 1965 ? Quite like to get it running again....but where to start... State of the art when first installed. Probably got grants to fund it too.

Space shuttle launch control panel...

grainboy · Aug 19, 2019

This is going in the bin today, anyone want any bits,

Cropper · Aug 19, 2019

grainboy said:
This is going in the bin today, anyone want any bits,

Can I put my name on the thermostat?

Cropper · Aug 19, 2019

rob h · Aug 19, 2019

Well after seeing pictures of serial no plates I cleaned ours off and it's actually newer than I thought it's a 1965.

DrWazzock · Aug 19, 2019

rob h said:
Well after seeing pictures of serial no plates I cleaned ours off and it's actually newer than I thought it's a 1965.

Just nicely run in.

The oldest piece of kit in our system, which is still used occasionally is a dresser from around about the 1850's. It has a motor on it now instead of a handle. It still has stamps on it from the time when it won a prize for innovation at some agricultural show.

DrWazzock · Aug 19, 2019

7610 super q said:
Here's what's left of it. Looking at serial No. made in 1965 ? Quite like to get it running again....but where to start... State of the art when first installed. Probably got grants to fund it too.

Space shuttle launch control panel...

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Looks a bit like ours.
That control panel is almost pornographic to a one time control systems engineer such as myself. My favourite bit of farming.
Forget to switch one on and you can soon smell and hear a slipping belt and usually end up hoovering half a ton of grain out from somewhere to get it going again.
Put them all on in quick succession and you can see the lights dimming down in the village.

Exfarmer · Aug 20, 2019

DrWazzock said:
Just nicely run in.

The oldest piece of kit in our system, which is still used occasionally is a dresser from around about the 1850's. It has a motor on it now instead of a handle. It still has stamps on it from the time when it won a prize for innovation at some agricultural show.

Boby, was it?

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