Mobile grain driers

[sputnik]

Hi.
Looking for info about mobile grain driers like Mecmar In terms of purchase price, fuel consumption, maintence cost etc. Really few here In Denmark but they seems to be more common In the UK so tell me the good and bad points. Tia

 

[Renaultman]

Hi.
Looking for info about mobile grain driers like Mecmar In terms of purchase price, fuel consumption, maintence cost etc. Really few here In Denmark but they seems to be more common In the UK so tell me the good and bad points. Tia

I have a Masters, similar to Mecmar, very good at cleaning grain samples up, easy to operate, easy to see how everything works. If I was on a larger I would look at a fixed drier but it fits my current set up well. It doesn't like peas or beans much but nothing does.

 

[Chae1]

Try and get a 3 phase dryer if you have 3 phase available, that way you can run automatic and half size of drier by adding a big hopper to fill it.

Ours is pto and don't like having a tractor rumbling on powering it all the time.

 

[David.]

It is a labour intensive way to dry a lot of corn, but with smallish parcels of mixed cropping the versatility is very useful.
Then there is the polishing and cleaning effect, which is always worth 4kg/hl.
But it is not much of a way to treat your best tractor, wants an old spare tractor with 1000 pto really.

 

[Renaultman]

Try and get a 3 phase dryer if you have 3 phase available, that way you can run automatic and half size of drier by adding a big hopper to fill it.

Ours is pto and don't like having a tractor rumbling on powering it all the time.

Have you ever thought of a donkey engine? Agree on 3 phase, some of the next generation mobile driers are fantastic.

 

[quattro]

Buy a master or mecmar both will cope with wet grain
electric is best as chae says, but even if you don’t have 3 phase buy a generator
buy as big a one as you can afford, as you will spend less time drying

 

[Chae1]

Have you ever thought of a donkey engine? Agree on 3 phase, some of the next generation mobile driers are fantastic.

Considered a generator when we bought it to run a 3 phase automatic drier. We have a spare tractor to go on it, nobody likes driving deutz so it goes on drier. Just a worry if a fan belt was to break and it overheat when nobody around.

 

[Renaultman]

Considered a generator when we bought it to run a 3 phase automatic drier. We have a spare tractor to go on it, nobody likes driving deutz so it goes on drier. Just a worry if a fan belt was to break and it overheat when nobody around.

Deutz are good on the driers. I have an old 3cylinder Iveco engine in a knackered generator that I keep thinking of converting to a donkey engine with the added bonus of it having the temperature and oil pressure cut offs.

 

[Shropshire Farmer]

Run a 12 ton fully automatic master here. Just put a hopper to load it. Run it with a generator which I hired last year. May buy one this year.

 

[Chae1]

How much are generators to hire? I thought I would need a 100kva one. Was looking at over 10k for a used one. Bought a tractor for not a lot more and it runs feeder wagon all winter.

 

[Shropshire Farmer]

I hired 100 kva last year which was £350 a week. Quote for a 60 kva for this time is £250 based on 60 hours a week. Wired direct to buzz bar will give 90 amps per phase.

 

[quattro]

How much are generators to hire? I thought I would need a 100kva one. Was looking at over 10k for a used one. Bought a tractor for not a lot more and it runs feeder wagon all winter.

Paid that for 165kva 5 years ago (new)

 

[DRC]

@Campbell is your man

 

[Chae1]

Paid that for 165kva 5 years ago (new)

Got a bargain then.

https://www.adeltd.co.uk/diesel-generators/perkins/165-kva.php

 

[2wheels]

Buy a master or mecmar both will cope with wet grain
electric is best as chae says, but even if you don’t have 3 phase buy a generator
buy as big a one as you can afford, as you will spend less time drying

depends what you mean by wet. when you get 30% wheat to dry and have to fill the dryer with 1 bucket wet and 1 bucket dry it's not easy and folk wonder why the bill is big.

 

[DieselRob]

Got a bargain then.

https://www.adeltd.co.uk/diesel-generators/perkins/165-kva.php

I'd say he got a bargain unless it was a bare unit with no sound proof canopy, 4 years ago I paid a little over 10k for a 100kva 4cyl perkins genny from Enrogen near York. Prior to that I had been hiring a 120kva at IIRC £250/wk for 10 to 12 weeks, being let down by hire company last minute changed my mind on hiring!

As to the OP, I have a 12t Opico fully auto here (seem to be in the minority) great drier IMO. Best way to gain output is to have a bigger wet bin or trench conveyor to feed it, i have my genny wired up to shut down when the switch signal from the centre auger stops

 

[goodevans]

Tidy 12 ton Master for sale here(PTO /DIESEL) stored undercover PM if interested for more details

 

[fredf]

My son bought a 25 ton Mecmar for last harvest Elec and auto also bought a S/H geny and it runs well. Renaultman will say how big it is.

Tom

 

[Renaultman]

My son bought a 25 ton Mecmar for last harvest Elec and auto also bought a S/H geny and it runs well. Renaultman will say how big it is.

Tom

It's a beauty I have massive drier envy.

 

[Farmer Fin]

There must be a fair few on the continent. Mecmar and Master (pedrotti) are both made in the same region of North Italy.