Grain drying bins

[Honeybadger]

Can anyone give me an idea on the cost of a 5 - 6 hundred tonne grain drying bin, I’m thinking of approx 40 foot diameter with a 22 foot eave height with stirrers and large fan with heater. DM if you’d rather keep cost private.

Also anyone have opinions on gsi vs Sukup? or Mcarthur vs danagri

thanks in adv

 

[Doing it for the kids]

@grainboy

 

[grainboy]

Nothing that big,
I have 250 ton ones available, £3500 each
Equivalent

New price approximately £15k

 

[Honeybadger]

Do they have drying floors, sweep augers and stirrers?

 

[grainboy]

No Drying floors, drying floor is grids in the concrete, No stirrer, have one sweep but is sold with 3 bins, already sold,

 

[Kingcj]

Just put a sukup 700 ton drying bin up this week with stirrers, fan drying floor heater, sweep auger, outloading gear. The bins are are pretty cheap it's the rest of the gear that mounts up. Also the concrete base and electric work is pretty expensive but they are a proper bit of kit.
We delt with McArthur and the whole project was straightforward, unbelievably quick to put up, 4 guys put ours up in 5 days.

 

[Hill Ground]

Nothing that big,
I have 250 ton ones available, £3500 each
Equivalent View attachment 1147575New price approximately £15kView attachment 1147576

Amazing that I've been quoted the same figure for a second hand 8t feed bin that your selling a 250t bin for!!

 

[KennyO]

Nothing that big,
I have 250 ton ones available, £3500 each
Equivalent View attachment 1147575New price approximately £15kView attachment 1147576

How much do you recent it would cost to get one of these up and operational? It must take a bit of concrete and conveyors etc.

 

[Honeybadger]

Just put a sukup 700 ton drying bin up this week with stirrers, fan drying floor heater, sweep auger, outloading gear. The bins are are pretty cheap it's the rest of the gear that mounts up. Also the concrete base and electric work is pretty expensive but they are a proper bit of kit.
We delt with McArthur and the whole project was straightforward, unbelievably quick to put up, 4 guys put ours up in 5 days.

Thanks how big is that bin? Are you filling with a conveyor or an auger?

 

[Kingcj]

Auger to fill, 120 ton/h. Also needs factoring into the cost. Ours is 42feet diameter, 36feet high or 7 rings. I'm in North lincs if you want a look at it?

 

[Kingcj]

 

[quattro]

Auger to fill, 120 ton/h. Also needs factoring into the cost. Ours is 42feet diameter, 36feet high or 7 rings. I'm in North lincs if you want a look at it?

Not knocking your choice, what was your reasoning to go with a bin rather than a shed?

 

[grainboy]

How much do you recent it would cost to get one of these up and operational? It must take a bit of concrete and conveyors etc.

as you say concrete cost,
Plus new or secondhand elevator, conveyor,
Sorry wouldn’t have costs,

 

[Kingcj]

Not knocking your choice, what was your reasoning to go with a bin rather than a shed?

Fair question, a number of reasons. A stirring silo mixes it's contents top to bottom so every load in it is the same moisture, protein, hagberg ect.. so for marketing you know exactly what you have. The mixing also means you can combine earlier in a morning and later at night because a couple of loads at 17% will get mixed in with the 13% stuff. The whole thing is a dryer as well.
Loading lorry's is as easy as pushing a couple of buttons so drivers can load themselves if we are busy.
We have a flat store with wooden floors as well and while you can drive machinery in there we find the floors are quite easily damaged and it's full of grain over winter anyway so stuff is still outside during the worst weather. This silo will free up a concrete floor former potato store that is insulated for machinery storage in winter.
Silo also vermin proof.
Silo also vermin proof.

 

[quattro]

Fair question, a number of reasons. A stirring silo mixes it's contents top to bottom so every load in it is the same moisture, protein, hagberg ect.. so for marketing you know exactly what you have. The mixing also means you can combine earlier in a morning and later at night because a couple of loads at 17% will get mixed in with the 13% stuff. The whole thing is a dryer as well.
Loading lorry's is as easy as pushing a couple of buttons so drivers can load themselves if we are busy.
We have a flat store with wooden floors as well and while you can drive machinery in there we find the floors are quite easily damaged and it's full of grain over winter anyway so stuff is still outside during the worst weather. This silo will free up a concrete floor former potato store that is insulated for machinery storage in winter.
Silo also vermin proof.
Silo also vermin proof.

thanks,
so do you just put one crop in it or will you use it for a dryer or see what happens at the time

 

[Kingcj]

If its a wet harvest we will load it and empty it up to 4 times, we also grow grain maize so we are hoping it will take the pressure off the trailer dryer for that. Long term we hope to hook it up to a biomass boiler for heat.

 

[Woody j]

If its a wet harvest we will load it and empty it up to 4 times, we also grow grain maize so we are hoping it will take the pressure off the trailer dryer for that. Long term we hope to hook it up to a biomass boiler for heat.

How long would it take to dry 700t of wheat @17-18% ?

 

[Kingcj]

It takes about a week to fully mix the bin so it's all the same. Drying is usually half a percent/day so you would be about a week

 

[Honeybadger]

If its a wet harvest we will load it and empty it up to 4 times, we also grow grain maize so we are hoping it will take the pressure off the trailer dryer for that. Long term we hope to hook it up to a biomass boiler for heat.

How long does it take to fill an artic when unloading?

I’m assuming you have a shed to tip wet grain when the bin is full?

 

[Kingcj]

Outloader does 60 tons/HR so half an hour. We have an on floor drying floor and 10 square condor bins that were put up in the 70s and the concrete floor shed if we're desperate