How to dry wet beans?

[Brisel]

Well, we have circa 300 tonnes of spring beans still to cut and our whizzy continuous flow drier setup hates anything over 25%. Even clean samples just don't want to go through the pre cleaner & up the elevators, plus it's at least 3 trips around the drier if we don't want to split what has so far been a good quality sample. I can't see us cutting much under 30% moisture this week and then the weather turns wet again afterwards. What are my options?

Mobile batch drier?
Rent a drive on floor with gas burners?
Trailer drier??

 

[Spencer]

Batch drier here and dried them from “high” on the moisture meter in one go before. Farm fans type so used to drying wet corn from mid 30’s..

 

[SilliamWhale]

Batch dry two or three times. Personally I keep two burners on to get the heat up and into them and then it switches off at about 37 degrees grain temp. Cool for a bit and take out and put next batch in. Then do all again a few days later.

 

[Chalky]

Few years ago put beans in a ventilated (old) 70T drying bin set up. lots of wind then RH burners & dried in no time. They were mid 20's. Stirrers are best-someone put a trayler drier ad on here a bit back-ideal I would have thought & there for seed lots etc in the future.

 

[oil barron]

Well, we have circa 300 tonnes of spring beans still to cut and our whizzy continuous flow drier setup hates anything over 25%. Even clean samples just don't want to go through the pre cleaner & up the elevators, plus it's at least 3 trips around the drier if we don't want to split what has so far been a good quality sample. I can't see us cutting much under 30% moisture this week and then the weather turns wet again afterwards. What are my options?

Mobile batch drier?
Rent a drive on floor with gas burners?
Trailer drier??

Get 50 tonne dried, then blend that back in and run the whole lot through the continuous flow.

 

[RAF]

Can u crimp them and sell them perfect at 25%

 

[Brisel]

Get 50 tonne dried, then blend that back in and run the whole lot through the continuous flow.

Does that not risk cracking the drier beans?

 

[goodevans]

Does that not risk cracking the drier beans?

It shouldn't if you let them equalize for a while

 

[oil barron]

Does that not risk cracking the drier beans?

^^like he said. Let it sit for a day first. You are using the dry beans to dry the wet beans.

 

[Renaultman]

Well, we have circa 300 tonnes of spring beans still to cut and our whizzy continuous flow drier setup hates anything over 25%. Even clean samples just don't want to go through the pre cleaner & up the elevators, plus it's at least 3 trips around the drier if we don't want to split what has so far been a good quality sample. I can't see us cutting much under 30% moisture this week and then the weather turns wet again afterwards. What are my options?

Mobile batch drier?
Rent a drive on floor with gas burners?
Trailer drier??

I've been told you can take a fair bit out with pedastals. Don't you fancy standing them for a week or two and try and pull the moisture back into the teens?

 

[Rob Holmes]

These:

Polycool Plastic Grain Cooling Lateral Pedestals Underfloor Crop Cooling

Polycool laterals - the option for floor based grain store ventilation systems

www.evansandpearce.com

With a free standing fan and a space heater blowing into fan
It’s what our man does to dry them, not the quickest but doesn’t damage grain, even if it gets them down to 20% so you can run through your dryer

 

[czechmate]

Well, we have circa 300 tonnes of spring beans still to cut and our whizzy continuous flow drier setup hates anything over 25%. Even clean samples just don't want to go through the pre cleaner & up the elevators, plus it's at least 3 trips around the drier if we don't want to split what has so far been a good quality sample. I can't see us cutting much under 30% moisture this week and then the weather turns wet again afterwards. What are my options?

Mobile batch drier?
Rent a drive on floor with gas burners?
Trailer drier??

I have a lovely mecmar drier, if you took that off my hands it would stop me wasting time thinking about how to move it here

 

[Badshot]

I've got 150 tonnes in a heap, only between 15 and 16 percent though, I've 6 of my perforated pipe pedestals in them with 6 little fans controlled by an el cheapo humidity controller, it's drying them very slowly, but not sure I'd want to risk 30 percent beans as they've only dropped the top 3 to 4 feet down to 14.5 so far in a month or so.

 

[britt]

Pedestals do a good job in beans because the air flow through them is good. You will struggle with the relative humidity being high now, but should get them down to where your drier should cope, and it will keep them cool and stable. Plenty of "fan power" is the important factor.

 

[yellow belly]

If you can get them to flow through your dryer system dry them slowly with low heat
cracking is from using to much heat and drying the outside before the middles have dried

if you use a mobile Opico mecmar type of dryer you will loose the white colour any way
elevators and continuos flow dryer is the gentlest way unless you can put them on a flat floor 3 feet deep
but this will take a long time

at 30% they go off very quickly and rot from the middle
but most moisture meter are not very accurate above 20%

get them combined and then keep them cool they will be worth less in the field
shut the slides on the combine grain tank or you may have to empty the hard way

 

[Cowcorn]

Well, we have circa 300 tonnes of spring beans still to cut and our whizzy continuous flow drier setup hates anything over 25%. Even clean samples just don't want to go through the pre cleaner & up the elevators, plus it's at least 3 trips around the drier if we don't want to split what has so far been a good quality sample. I can't see us cutting much under 30% moisture this week and then the weather turns wet again afterwards. What are my options?

Mobile batch drier?
Rent a drive on floor with gas burners?
Trailer drier??

Acid trreat them Brisel and look for a buyer who wi take them for rolling .
Impossible to dry when moisture is that high . Take forever on a drying floor and the go black and mouldy pretty quick .

 

[puma power]

Find someone with a drying floor no labour, no hassle slow and steady!!

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

Find someone with a drying floor no labour, no hassle slow and steady!!

Preferably someone within a £5 haul...

 

[cia72]

Have hired a trailor dryer to get around this problem in the past. 2-3 hours in the trailor then cool for 30 mins firms them up enough to tip into the intake and finish in the existing system.

 

[farmerm]

I have a lovely mecmar drier, if you took that off my hands it would stop me wasting time thinking about how to move it here

to save you thinking about it any further just let me know where it is and I will arrange to move it here