What Size Grain Drier?

[westwood]

Looking to install a new grain drier.
Ideally want it inside a shed with wet storage.

Cropping is wheat, spring barley and some winter barley.
Total cropping area is 1000 acres.

Run a Claas 750.

What capacity drier do you think would suit this acreage and output of combine?

Some automation would be nice to future proof it.

Thanks

 

[D14]

Looking to install a new grain drier.
Ideally want it inside a shed with wet storage.

Cropping is wheat, spring barley and some winter barley.
Total cropping area is 1000 acres.

Run a Claas 750.

What capacity drier do you think would suit this acreage and output of combine?

Some automation would be nice to future proof it.

Thanks

Always thought a decent used 30t Opico/Mecmar fed by a underfloor auger would be a good setup. As long as it could discharge as much as it can dry overnight I would think that running 24/7 would dry 250-300t every 24 hours.

 

[woodylane]

The biggest you can afford and a large wet tip area feeding the dryer with a trench conveyor.

 

[bankrupt]

Total cropping area is 1000 acres.

Tonnage is more relevant here than acreage.

There's a world of difference between harvesting 2000 odd on a really difficult bit of ground and 4000+ on something very much better.

 

[Salopian_Will]

Looking to install a new grain drier.
Ideally want it inside a shed with wet storage.

Cropping is wheat, spring barley and some winter barley.
Total cropping area is 1000 acres.

Run a Claas 750.

What capacity drier do you think would suit this acreage and output of combine?

Some automation would be nice to future proof it.

Thanks

Were just putting in a 24t automated Mecmar with underground trench loading conveyor and overhead conveyors into an existing and new store. New store will have a wet grain partition. This is to serve a similar set up/combine to yours. We were advised that the next size of Mecmars up need a lot more electricity to drive. There was a 28t advertised on here a couple of days ago by McArthurs for £70k. That might not be an issue for you but we have a high base load already.

I was once given some good advice that it is futile to try and match driers to combine output, as the latter will always win. Just try and minimise the number of times of handling and have plenty of space for tipping wet.

 

[yellow belly]

Spend 70000 extra on the combine
in a dry area south or east
north or west bigger dryer

 

[KENNY GRAINTEK]

Looking to install a new grain drier.
Ideally want it inside a shed with wet storage.

Cropping is wheat, spring barley and some winter barley.
Total cropping area is 1000 acres.

Run a Claas 750.

What capacity drier do you think would suit this acreage and output of combine?

Some automation would be nice to future proof it.

Thanks

Hi my name is Kenny Addison of GrainTek and we manufacture grain driers of all sizes and install complete packages. Our driers are dual mode being batch or continuous giving you best of both worlds
especially if only removing 1 or 2 percent and we are automation specialists as well. I would only be to pleased to discuss further what we can offer .You can call me on 07831 451273 at any time phone is always on.