How much can Pedestal fans reduce moisture?

[principal skinner]

In my wisdom yesterday I put 300t of 16-16.5% wheat into store with towers in hoping to take a percent out with them.

It's a five mile trip to the dryer, surely I'm going to be better off taking the claims on the chin rather than loading, 5 mile road trip and drying before out loading again. How much is the knock going to be for 1.5% ???

Will get the fans on during the day when it's drys up

 

[Flat 10]

@Clive flogs them doesn’t he? Surely he has experience/recommendations?

 

[fermec860]

Central tunnel, hard wood floors, gas modulator and a fan that has the air volume needed to dry grain.
The problem as I said with pedestals is that unless you have low RH and a decent ambient temperature they will only dry a small amount around the tower.
I was mislead and learnt an expensive but valuable lesson. If you want to dry airflow is style on floor systems with a

Central tunnel, hard wood floors, gas modulator and a fan that has the air volume needed to dry grain.
The problem as I said with pedestals is that unless you have low RH and a decent ambient temperature they will only dry a small amount around the tower.
I was mislead and learnt an expensive but valuable lesson. If you want to dry airflow is king.

We've old style A style ducts in 2 stores and pedastalls in 2 new sheds old ducts are a pain to set up but work well as said in the thread pedastalls good for cooling anything else is a bonus

 

[jimcooke770]

Is there any advantage of plastic pedestals over metal ? We've had trouble with condensation and grain sticking to tin .

 

[Brisel]

Not really. The plastic ones get condensation too & they are more resilient to knocks with the loader. The top pipes do bend with the heavy 3 phase motors we have if there's much pipe sticking out of the heap.

 

[Clive]

Is there any advantage of plastic pedestals over metal ? We've had trouble with condensation and grain sticking to tin .

only really that the plastic ones are a lot harder to damage - the idea they flow less air sometimes banded about is a complete myth, both steel and plastic do the job, plastic just likely to last longer but costs bit ore in the first place

I have mostly metal but if buying today I would buy Polycool

Polycool here - https://www.marketplace.farm/grain-...tandard-polycool-pedestals-3.5m-height-71140/

Meta cool here - https://www.marketplace.farm/grain-...andard-metalcool-pedestals-3.5m-height-71131/



so just over £20 more for the plastic

 

[Laggard]

To dry with pedestals you need lots of them, big fans, low relative humidity and plenty of time. When the wind comes from the east it can be incredibly dry low RH and we have taken 3.5% moisture out of wheat. Took until April though.

 

[nick...]

My dad used to dry in bins quite successfully.fill the kongsklde bin and put the blower fan on it and stand a 3 bar heater in front of the fan so the heat was sucked in.air was blown up the centre of the bin and it could be felt coming out of the louvres.this was probably 35 years ago.
Nick...

 

[nick...]

My dad used to dry in bins quite successfully.fill the kongsklde bin and put the blower fan on it and stand a 3 bar heater in front of the fan so the heat was sucked in.air was blown up the centre of the bin and it could be felt coming out of the louvres.this was probably 35 years ago.
Nick...

 

[Al R]

only really that the plastic ones are a lot harder to damage - the idea they flow less air sometimes banded about is a complete myth, both steel and plastic do the job, plastic just likely to last longer but costs bit ore in the first place

I have mostly metal but if buying today I would buy Polycool

Polycool here - https://www.marketplace.farm/grain-...tandard-polycool-pedestals-3.5m-height-71140/

Meta cool here - https://www.marketplace.farm/grain-...andard-metalcool-pedestals-3.5m-height-71131/



so just over £20 more for the plastic

Do you do any screw in hot spot types? PM if you want.

 

[Clive]

Do you do any screw in hot spot types? PM if you want.

Yes we have a selection on TFF Farm Marketplace

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[Al R]

Thanks Clive ??

 

[jg123]

Not sure about drying as do not test coming out of store but it allows us to store grain over winter from about 17.5 down. All for our own use, drying down to 14 for us is a lot of hassle and expense if we don't need to and creates more dust when rolling with the tractors on the way out of store