use a diesel fan, generates its own heat, have dried from 25% down to 14.5% in 3 weeks. only turned it off when the humidity was high or it was chucking it down and that was only after it got down to below 17%.
no the exhaust is piped out of the shed, and well in a normal year it uses around 1500 litres to dry 700 tonnes of wheat, this year its used around 2000 litres but it is 12 foot high, couldn't get the spear in for the first week. not sure how well this compares to electric.
Very cheap I'd say.no the exhaust is piped out of the shed, and well in a normal year it uses around 1500 litres to dry 700 tonnes of wheat, this year its used around 2000 litres but it is 12 foot high, couldn't get the spear in for the first week. not sure how well this compares to electric.
its a lister fan 4 cylinder, old but does the job. its a concrete floor with a type laterals, keep looking for some 2nd hand ones but the ones you see for sale are usually knackered and for some reason smaller than ours which date from 1985. they can be a pain to load in and out of but we have a wooden floor at the other farm which is easy to load in and out but for some reason it always takes longer to dry wheat and only about 300 tonne, never quite worked out why?
I have had 2 new timber floors installed for this harvest and the improvement in air flow over our existing ones is considerable. Stirrers cut drying time by at least 50% IMHO. Thinking of just buying 4 grain butlers rather than full fixed stirrer outlay[/QUOTE
What company have full knowlege about floor drying and with stirrators with heat added? Mayby with
diesel fan?