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What would you expect a new grain store with grain drier to cost. £./ton.?
The question was partly to see if there are economies of scale. So say 500 tonnes and 15000 tonnes.
What would you expect a new grain store with grain drier to cost. £./ton.?
The figure of £100 per ton has been around for years. Warksfarmers shed has a capacity of 2000cbm or 1500 ton level fill so that works out at about £45 per ton for the store without dryer fan, drying floor or laterals etc. I'd guess that fitting the drying kit plus electrics etc would take it up to £75 - £80 per ton, which sounds a pretty keen price.
@warksfarmer what are the dimensions of your shed? Is it 12ft concrete walls?
This is interesting, I'm looking at a basic 500t store for 2016 harvest not had any quotes yet though. Anyone had any smaller stores priced lately?
Last year we built a 2000 cbm capacity shed (thats level fill not heap) and the total finished price for the shed is £70k. We made use of some old roof bars but other than that it was completely new materials used. The price includes the concrete floors, wall panels, cladding, elec, doors, guttering etc. I have split it into 2 giving me 2 x 1000cbm bays although in reality with a single crop it can fit 2000t of wheat in it with a heap and it was built to withstand 5000t surcharge. There is no drier or air flow in it at the moment as I am using upright lishman things.
I've built it to take our existing stirrer so long term I probably will build an air tunnel down either side of the shed and then cut in air flow tunnels across the floor so I can condition more effectively and make use of the stirrer better.
The figure of £100 per ton has been around for years. Warksfarmers shed has a capacity of 2000cbm or 1500 ton level fill so that works out at about £45 per ton for the store without dryer fan, drying floor or laterals etc. I'd guess that fitting the drying kit plus electrics etc would take it up to £75 - £80 per ton, which sounds a pretty keen price.
I have 37 by 17 by 4m high walls. I surcharge fill with a conveyor in ridge and get 2500 tonnes in. Doorway blocked up with timbers and lift out one by one when starting to empty.
Floor has proper laterals every 15 foot with fan points down one side of shed. We dry to 15% then just cool over winter
Just one big space.
Cost under £100k including conveyor from existing drier setup. £40/t.
You can't beat having your own storage. Combined barley today, knocked off 8pm dryer stopped 9pm, corn in shed
Just planning a new grain store based on permitted development size ~ 465m2. Essentially an 18m x 24m x 4m store, considering going 8m to eaves to enable ridge conveyor filling in the future. Concrete walls designed to be surcharged from the central conveyor. Obviously the shed's relatively short length doesn't make it the most efficient space at the outset (would possibly aim to double up latterly) but cost looks set to be around £70/t. This is a well spec'd shed - galvanized, all metal purlins etc. Amazed to see how @warksfarmer & @l'ordinary bonville have achieved it for £40 - £45; have prices changed a lot in 2-3 years or do I need to get some more quotes? From what I can gather the kind of kits we see promoted in the farming press amount to ~ 40% of the whole build cost by the time the delivery / ground works / foundations / erection / concreters / electrician etc have finished. Any comments - thanks!