New drying shed/grain store design

[willio]

Looking into having a new drying shed/grain store put up to replace existing 60’s set up.
ive my own ideas on it but would like to have a design done and options looked at for future proofing it.

Any recommendations for actual shed designers that will actually design a set up instead of just agreeing and saying ‘yes we’ll make that’

Cheshire based site

cheers

 

[DrWazzock]

To future proof it just put up a simple standard agricultural storage shed with plain flat floor but walls and frame sized to hold a depth of grain. Dry with batch drier into shed and or condition with pedestals. That way you can use it for something else and sell off the drying kit if circumstances change. That’s what we are doing though maybe building two air ducts into the floor covered with mesh for conditioning/cooling onto which we can connect low flow high pressure blowers from the outside. I don’t think the job runs to dedicated bespoke setups any more.
All depends though.

 

[chaffcutter]

Stick to the flat floor IMO, can be used for anything then. We have a separate shed with intake, cleaner and continuous flow drier an conveyors to store, but a mobile drier could fit in fine with that or handling dry to store by bucket.

 

[B R C]

What are your tonnage and segregation needs first question?

 

[Gadget]

If I did it again I would try not to have valley gutters and go for one span.

 

[deleted user 837354]

As above, flat floor as far as practical. Intake/driver and intake pit (drive through so doors/entrance both ends of pit) in separate building at one end. Conveyor along the length to drop grain straight onto floor in heaps. Whole lot can then be sold if plans change and alternative uses needed. Condition grain with pedestals.

For specialist stuff in small volumes I may consider internal bins and a separate out loading bin trucks can drive over but you won't ever be able to use it for anything else.

 

[willio]

What are your tonnage and segregation needs first question?

Probably 1000 ton and if segregation was require we’ve already got concrete dividers

 

[willio]

We do as what most of you have mentioned already.
tipped on concrete floor with pedestal’s to condition.
we’ve an old continuous drier and flat bin set up from the 60’s that’s gone past even considering using now.

basis of what I’m looking at is a 120/60/30 shed attached to a existing 60/40/20 shed. Batchdrier to be set up in the front bay and intake set up in existing shed. Then possibly having a unloading belt set in the roof to take it down the shed.

had a couple people look at it already and they aren’t keen on stubbing off existing shed as they don’t think it’ll take the loading. Eves hight seems an issue as well, but we need the hight to get the drier in or we drop the floor high where the driers set up.

 

[grainboy]

Or go down the bin route,
Complete 870 ton storage facility for sale, all
with drying floors, fans, elevators and conveyors
Will be dismantled and available in the spring,

 

[tr250]

Best advice I can give today is put it on top of a hill 🌧

 

[Banana Bar]

Or go down the bin route,
Complete 870 ton storage facility for sale, all
with drying floors, fans, elevators and conveyors
Will be dismantled and available in the spring,

Guess that lot is for free? Loaded obviously!

 

[Hard Graft]

what sort of money is that lot

Or go down the bin route,
Complete 870 ton storage facility for sale, all
with drying floors, fans, elevators and conveyors
Will be dismantled and available in the spring,

 

[grainboy]

Guess that lot is for free? Loaded obviously!

Do love a dreamer, even at Xmas

 

[nickf]

This is what we have just finished.
Second hand Master batch drier, 12t electric with 15t hopper.
It can empty to the left into a 80 x 60 x 4m wall shed with pedestals or right into 40 x 20 bay.
Was the cheapest set up I could come up with.
Got another shed next door 100 x 50 x 4m wall with centre wall and pedestals for separating varieties and moistures.
All flat concrete floors, easily letable if needs be.
I have never had a dryer before, (only some old square flat bottomed ventilated bins which I am never setting foot in again), and bought it as a bit of an insurance policy against wetter harvests.
I have put 60t of 17% Tybalt through it so far and it has done cracking job of cleaning the sample along with getting moisture down so it can now go straight to the flour mill as full spec milling.

I

 

[Banana Bar]

This is what we have just finished.
Second hand Master batch drier, 12t electric with 15t hopper.
It can empty to the left into a 80 x 60 x 4m wall shed with pedestals or right into 40 x 20 bay.
Was the cheapest set up I could come up with.
Got another shed next door 100 x 50 x 4m wall with centre wall and pedestals for separating varieties and moistures.
All flat concrete floors, easily letable if needs be.
I have never had a dryer before, (only some old square flat bottomed ventilated bins which I am never setting foot in again), and bought it as a bit of an insurance policy against wetter harvests.
I have put 60t of 17% Tybalt through it so far and it has done cracking job of cleaning the sample along with getting moisture down so it can now go straight to the flour mill as full spec milling.

I

That is almost exactly the design I have come up with. Only difference being a 32 tonne Mecmar and an overhead conveyor taking dry grain away. Other difference is mine is still a design and yours is built!

BB

 

[Neddy flanders]

That is almost exactly the design I have come up with. Only difference being a 32 tonne Mecmar and an overhead conveyor taking dry grain away. Other difference is mine is still a design and yours is built!

BB

how high is the shed you need for a 32 tonner? looking at a masters here.

 

[willio]

This is what we have just finished.
Second hand Master batch drier, 12t electric with 15t hopper.
It can empty to the left into a 80 x 60 x 4m wall shed with pedestals or right into 40 x 20 bay.
Was the cheapest set up I could come up with.
Got another shed next door 100 x 50 x 4m wall with centre wall and pedestals for separating varieties and moistures.
All flat concrete floors, easily letable if needs be.
I have never had a dryer before, (only some old square flat bottomed ventilated bins which I am never setting foot in again), and bought it as a bit of an insurance policy against wetter harvests.
I have put 60t of 17% Tybalt through it so far and it has done cracking job of cleaning the sample along with getting moisture down so it can now go straight to the flour mill as full spec milling.

I

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Vaguely similar to what I’ve been doing. Got a electric 12ton master which unloads into a split shed for loading straight out on the right but anything else I have to trailer round the yard. Mines set up in a 75/30/32 shed which we want to make into a store for another crop and utilise the whole shed. Find having the drier where it is we are nearly loosing the use of the whole shed. FYI your is a lot cleaner than mine. I’ve been cleaning milling oats for mornflake

 

[willio]

how high is the shed you need for a 32 tonner? looking at a masters here.

8.2-8.5 mt (28ft) depending on model so the website says

 

[tombrandreth]

Or go down the bin route,
Complete 870 ton storage facility for sale, all
with drying floors, fans, elevators and conveyors
Will be dismantled and available in the spring,

PM you

 

[deleted user 837354]

That is almost exactly the design I have come up with. Only difference being a 32 tonne Mecmar and an overhead conveyor taking dry grain away. Other difference is mine is still a design and yours is built!

BB

Show us the pictures when she is done.