Fat hen
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We are a 480ac farm with 5 or 6 crops. We have been using an old Opico for the last 20 yrs, which doesnt owe us anything but it is time and fuel hungry. I feel its time to enter the 21st Century!! We have a large concrete floor shed (50x40yds) which stores the grain pre and post drying.
To fill the shed with a drying floor doesnt make a lot of sense to me because of the number of crops and the relatively low farm size. We have a 120kw biomass boiler which I want to supply all/most of the heat.
The plan is to build in the shed a 60x30ft floor holding up to 200t at 6ft. Drying 0.5% per 24hrs. So having 1000-1200t of grain of different crops means the floor will need emptying 6-8 times annually. This is going to need a robust floor hence are about to go for a GFT concrete floor. The alternative is a Hardwood floor.
That apart we're going for concrete panel walling and the same to construct the tunnel.
Does anyone have experience of using either floor-type in a 'batch' fashion like this?
Do GFT hold OSR well?
Do the GFT floors chip? What can you do if the concrete floor chips?
To fill the shed with a drying floor doesnt make a lot of sense to me because of the number of crops and the relatively low farm size. We have a 120kw biomass boiler which I want to supply all/most of the heat.
The plan is to build in the shed a 60x30ft floor holding up to 200t at 6ft. Drying 0.5% per 24hrs. So having 1000-1200t of grain of different crops means the floor will need emptying 6-8 times annually. This is going to need a robust floor hence are about to go for a GFT concrete floor. The alternative is a Hardwood floor.
That apart we're going for concrete panel walling and the same to construct the tunnel.
Does anyone have experience of using either floor-type in a 'batch' fashion like this?
Do GFT hold OSR well?
Do the GFT floors chip? What can you do if the concrete floor chips?