New drying shed/grain store design

MrNoo

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Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
8.2-8.5 mt (28ft) depending on model so the website says
Mine's 28ft allowing clearance for the dust extraction hood.
Am in exactly the same position as you, was going to convert existing shed but since my father died I no longer own it (well the ground its on anyway) so starting afresh.
Going 120x60 but only 21 to eves for main store and then another shed at 90 off the end which will be 150ft long, this will house machinery and where the two sheds meet will house the 27t Master drier, I will have a 10m trench conveyor to feed it and then it'll discharge via conveyor straight into the main storage shed (which can be partitioned) it will be flat floor, concrete panel sides, simple and if it all goes tits up, could be rented out.
Planning due in shortly.
I plan to make it mostly myself, as the savings will pay for the concrete, the kit frames look good but if you actually price all the components up theres a saving to be had of 20k on a 1500t store. Sure, it'll take longer but it can also be tailored to exactly how you want it.
I had thought re ducting and external fans to condition grain but will see how it goes.
It sounds elaborate and maybe overkill but am a one man band so ease of use is very important.
In my case it would also open up other possibilities further down the line for expansion.
 

willio

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Mine's 28ft allowing clearance for the dust extraction hood.
Am in exactly the same position as you, was going to convert existing shed but since my father died I no longer own it (well the ground its on anyway) so starting afresh.
Going 120x60 but only 21 to eves for main store and then another shed at 90 off the end which will be 150ft long, this will house machinery and where the two sheds meet will house the 27t Master drier, I will have a 10m trench conveyor to feed it and then it'll discharge via conveyor straight into the main storage shed (which can be partitioned) it will be flat floor, concrete panel sides, simple and if it all goes tits up, could be rented out.
Planning due in shortly.
I plan to make it mostly myself, as the savings will pay for the concrete, the kit frames look good but if you actually price all the components up theres a saving to be had of 20k on a 1500t store. Sure, it'll take longer but it can also be tailored to exactly how you want it.
I had thought re ducting and external fans to condition grain but will see how it goes.
It sounds elaborate and maybe overkill but am a one man band so ease of use is very important.
In my case it would also open up other possibilities further down the line for expansion.
Exactly the same here 1 man band,with an eye on the future. Don’t want to hamstring my self with a shed I can make use of in the future 🤦🏼‍♀️
 

quattro

Member
Location
scotland
Mine's 28ft allowing clearance for the dust extraction hood.
Am in exactly the same position as you, was going to convert existing shed but since my father died I no longer own it (well the ground its on anyway) so starting afresh.
Going 120x60 but only 21 to eves for main store and then another shed at 90 off the end which will be 150ft long, this will house machinery and where the two sheds meet will house the 27t Master drier, I will have a 10m trench conveyor to feed it and then it'll discharge via conveyor straight into the main storage shed (which can be partitioned) it will be flat floor, concrete panel sides, simple and if it all goes tits up, could be rented out.
Planning due in shortly.
I plan to make it mostly myself, as the savings will pay for the concrete, the kit frames look good but if you actually price all the components up theres a saving to be had of 20k on a 1500t store. Sure, it'll take longer but it can also be tailored to exactly how you want it.
I had thought re ducting and external fans to condition grain but will see how it goes.
It sounds elaborate and maybe overkill but am a one man band so ease of use is very important.
In my case it would also open up other possibilities further down the line for expansion.
have you thought about putting a hole through the rear wall to allow for cooling of grain, easier to do when building from scratch
I use 400mm twin wall pipe for keeping grain cool Upto 25ft deep , cheap and can take knock compared to floor ducts, just a thought
 

willio

Member
have you thought about putting a hole through the rear wall to allow for cooling of grain, easier to do when building from scratch
I use 400mm twin wall pipe for keeping grain cool Upto 25ft deep , cheap and can take knock compared to floor ducts, just a thought
I’m using pedestal’s, thats another reason for the hight of 28/30ft and probably have a extractor fan in the side somewhere as well
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
have you thought about putting a hole through the rear wall to allow for cooling of grain, easier to do when building from scratch
I use 400mm twin wall pipe for keeping grain cool Upto 25ft deep , cheap and can take knock compared to floor ducts, just a thought
Sounds a good idea, I remember when young we used to have a wire frame like an inverted U section, they'd go together and then we'd put hessian sacks over them, every 10ft connected to an air chamber with a ruddy great fan at the end. Used to use a sweep auger to feed a main auger, used to be a right ball ache when you got down to the Hessian sacks!!! lol The good old days (not so sure!)
 

quattro

Member
Location
scotland
I’ve a about 18in single phase far which fastens by ratchet strap to a plate on outside wall
then twin wall pushed in hole on inside of shed
two runs of pipe down a 50or60 ft wide shed works well considering depth I store at
 

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JD6920s

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Shropshire
That is almost exactly the design I have come up with. Only difference being a 32 tonne Mecmar and an overhead conveyor taking dry grain away. Other difference is mine is still a design and yours is built!

BB
Have you built this yet?
if so any chance of seeing some pics please?
 
Intake pit, elevators, self emptying wet bins, drier and weigher (possibly a cleaner/dresser) in the smaller building - you might need to add a small penthouse for the tops of the elevators.

in the big shed, double line of air sweep bins down the middle with a conveyor. Put a small pit after the bins so that grain from floor storage can be sent back to elevators etc. This gives the option for storing rape, peas, beans etc as well specialist cereals like malting barley as well as the option of drying crops where the m/c is a bit high and you only want to take 1 or 2% out. This leaves two floor storage areas either side for feed wheat and feed barley. Put some buried ducts in from the side of the building to run low volume conditioning fans - this will leave a flat floor for unloading with a bucket.
An overhead conveyor will take grain to floor or bins.

I‘d go for 2 twin leg elevators to give plenty of options for moving grain around. With an outlet from one of the elevators over the tipping pit you then have the option when selling grain of pre-loading the wet pits with a weighed amount of grain and with say 40 tph elevators it’s 30 mins to load a 20 t bulker.

Put a wall between wet pit and rest of building to cut dust - can be hardboard on a stud frame.
 

Willie adie

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Location
Aberdeenshire
How about roofs, floors and walls that are porous,?
Doorways that have only 2ft clearance with an untipped cart,?
A roof that doesn't allow full tip of cart?
Steel uprights in the tipping area,?
Gutters that leak.
Poor lighting in the shed, .
Just a few of suggestions
 

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