- Location
- South West
Wondering what's general thoughts on DIY drying.
'If' someone were operating a 25 year old 12t/h continuous flow dryer for 900 acres, everything going through it. The intake is still from the 60s and microscopic and the handling and wet stora, is becoming unsustainable. The rape goes stright after drying but there can obviously be some 'delay' so it's piled wet in the cattle shed, dried then bucketed back by forklift to the original shed.
The intake and drier can't keep up with the volume of wheat coming in and ofte all available sheds (over 1000 sq m)are full to the doors with rape or barley waiting to go in one, and the rest full of wet wheat. There's not enough room in the actual dryer shed for all the dry stuff to fit in so again, the dry stuff is bucketed out back to the original shed, often into the same shed as wet stuff...needing to be 'kept seperate'...which is impossible.
There are seperate entities within the business pushing in differnet directions. one being get as much dried off the place as possible, leaving as soon as it's cut to never be seen again (and not handled 3 or 4 times) and then just dry the wheat to shed capacity. Other factions enjoy the palaver currently ongoing.
Tie in the fact that the 'wet' sheds are now earmarked for other use too.
Is a dryer of that age likely to be efficient (not modified at all, still as the day it went in)?
The extra handling and taking up of shed space must be outdated compared to shifting to the local commercial plant/storage?
The days of finding driving about shifting buckets of corn until yon time because it's 'fun' are surely long gone.
Any input or views much appreciated.
'If' someone were operating a 25 year old 12t/h continuous flow dryer for 900 acres, everything going through it. The intake is still from the 60s and microscopic and the handling and wet stora, is becoming unsustainable. The rape goes stright after drying but there can obviously be some 'delay' so it's piled wet in the cattle shed, dried then bucketed back by forklift to the original shed.
The intake and drier can't keep up with the volume of wheat coming in and ofte all available sheds (over 1000 sq m)are full to the doors with rape or barley waiting to go in one, and the rest full of wet wheat. There's not enough room in the actual dryer shed for all the dry stuff to fit in so again, the dry stuff is bucketed out back to the original shed, often into the same shed as wet stuff...needing to be 'kept seperate'...which is impossible.
There are seperate entities within the business pushing in differnet directions. one being get as much dried off the place as possible, leaving as soon as it's cut to never be seen again (and not handled 3 or 4 times) and then just dry the wheat to shed capacity. Other factions enjoy the palaver currently ongoing.
Tie in the fact that the 'wet' sheds are now earmarked for other use too.
Is a dryer of that age likely to be efficient (not modified at all, still as the day it went in)?
The extra handling and taking up of shed space must be outdated compared to shifting to the local commercial plant/storage?
The days of finding driving about shifting buckets of corn until yon time because it's 'fun' are surely long gone.
Any input or views much appreciated.
