Using a mobile drier outdoors

[Oilseed]

I am thinking of buying a mobile drier but it will need to be used outdoors in multiple locations. Being as it will only be used in wet summers how much does rain effect their use?
Is it possible to build a roof onto the machine?

 

[Steevo]

shed over mobile grain dryer

anybody any photos of there grain drying setups?? looking at putting up a building over mecmar mobile grain dryer

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The lid might be handy in your circumstances.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Mine is outdoors but the fill Hopper is in the shed and all it does is rain here

 

[Against_the_grain]

Mine is outdoors as is the hopper. Needs a lot of rain to make much of a difference imo. It will just mean the dryer is running for longer.
A roof or better still a shed would be ideal but its not something we are considering atm.

 

[strawturner]

Ours has always been in a fairly well ventilated shed but sometimes when drying really wet material I've felt that having it outside would of been a benefit as all the humid air (steam) lingers around and condensates on the roof - sometimes badly enough to drip from the roof wetting the floor. I would have no problems using the drier outside.

 

[Kildare]

Outside is best. Re moving to several sites it's a pain.

 

[HAM135]

Nothing worse than having a drier sitting outside in the pissing rain burning kero/elec and hardly drying,ours sat out the first season but never done since,now we can happily dry 24hrs a day.

 

[Chae1]

Ours sits outside all the time at harvest. Not many days you can't dry. Ran one inside once and wouldn't do it again.

We are north east Scotland about 7 miles from sea.

 

[Flat 10]

Anyone used one for drying grain maize?

 

[B R C]

Hating having mine outside, everything gets soaked, can’t leave full up or you can jam the augers of grain swells, much better under cover

 

[Andrew K]

Best to get a farrell trailer drier,then you can back it under cover when the heavens open?

 

[yellow belly]

mine is out side all the time rain makes little difference

leaves it full if it is going to rain over night saves cleaning out the bottom
lift the filling hopper
what makes the biggest difference is the cooling time when the air temp is lower it is easier on a hot day it is hard to cool it

 

[Against_the_grain]

Anyone used one for drying grain maize?

Yes what do you want to know?

 

[7610 super q]

Older 10 toners used to fit indoors, now the bigger 12 tonners won't. Hate doing it outside. Panicked this year when I saw a large black cloud looming, dumped the load before it had cooled, then reloaded later in the day just to cool it........
Just a simple lean-to would be the answer to keep the worst of the rain off the top, and the intake auger too. Nothing worse than scraping out soggy grain and chaff. Maybe I'm too fussy.....

 

[Chae1]

Need it under a lean to as above. Just setting it up in a grainstore is a no go in my experience. They need airflow to operate properly. I think.

 

[MrNoo]

Mines outside unfortunately, makes little difference, as said above leave a dried full load in overnight if rain due, a ballache to clean it all out if empty and it rains for days on end.
I have to build a wet tip pit and put a roof over the drier but need to put a new store up for this as due to some fanciful cockup with my father I dont own the site the current sheds are on.
But coming from a Blanch continuos flow drier with about 20 elevators and a penchant for self combusting while doing 4t/h I wouldnt go back, great bit of kit, just turn it on and forget about it, ideal in my situation.
They do produce a bit of dust mind, I have the dust extractor and that pulls a lot out of the sample, so ideally need somewhere to collect that (I use an old trailer)

 

[Flat 10]

Yes what do you want to know?

How much have you successfully got out please?

 

[Against_the_grain]

What do you mean?

 

[Flat 10]

What do you mean?

Sorry. How many percent moisture have you taken out please?

 

[Against_the_grain]

Been able to take it from about 28% down to 14% if needed but have been stopping at 20% and putting it on neighbors drying floor. From 28% down to 20% takes about 4-5hours. Tbh once the heat gets into it and you get it to 20% its not that much longer before its at 14%. Getting the heat into it is the slow bit.