Wheat refusing to dry

[Neddy flanders]

Does spring wheat grain take more drying than Winter wheat????

normally by this time of year no need to have fans on.

so in a 3.2m deep store with a wooden floor and 50hp fan with gas burner and humidity sensor which has been on since early september, the change in moisture appears to have been negligible in the top 1/3 of the heap. despite three passses with a 1.8m stirrer. agreed it was pretty wet when it went in (19%). the bottom is 15%, the middle 17 and the top not much less than 19%.

absolute wits end. might drag the lot out and bury it, that sick of looking at it.
may well be £200+ but no-one wants 17% wheat even in a famine.
do Tey Farm Services still sell Trailer driers? @Andrew K

 

[Flat 10]

Does spring wheat grain take more drying than Winter wheat????

normally by this time of year no need to have fans on.

so in a 3.2m deep store with a wooden floor and 50hp fan with gas burner and humidity sensor which has been on since early september, the change in moisture appears to have been negligible in the top 1/3 of the heap. despite three passses with a 1.8m stirrer. agreed it was pretty wet when it went in (19%). the bottom is 15%, the middle 17 and the top not much less than 19%.

absolute wits end. might drag the lot out and bury it, that sick of looking at it.

do Tey Farm Services still sell Trailer driers? @Andrew K

Is something wrong with the drier controls?

 

[Neddy flanders]

Is something wrong with the drier controls?

no, the fan is on when its low humidity and off when not. simples

 

[bobk]

no, the fan is on when its low humidity and off when not. simples

Have you got stirrers ?

 

[Flat 10]

no, the fan is on when its low humidity and off when not. simples

I was just asking if you had checked that was working correctly that's all. Only trying to help

 

[Flat 10]

Have you got stirrers ?

He said it had been stirred 3x

 

[bobk]

He said it had been stirred 3x

Oh .

 

[Farmer Fin]

What temp is the wheat at? 19% to 15% takes quite a lot of energy.

 

[Devon Gurfallo]

Is there any company's which hire moble dryers near you.

 

[principal skinner]

Enough air flow??

 

[solo]

There was a lot of humid air in September and October here in Worcestershire as my dryer would run for only an hour or two in the late afternoons. I was trying to cool mine more than drying it though. Frosts last week sorted that out now.
I would check the humidity sensor is calibrated, but it was probably just marginal drying weather.

 

[B R C]

When you say stirrer, is that a grain butler? And only to 56% of heap depth? A grain butler would have to be going for days to actually stir properly?

 

[Neddy flanders]

When you say stirrer, is that a grain butler? And only to 56% of heap depth? A grain butler would have to be going for days to actually stir properly?

yes similar the Lundig version. not a true full depth version. seems to be plenty of air flow. enough to blow chaff out of the end of a grain spear when inserted into the heap.

 

[Jolly]

Drying Spring Wheat in the opico today does seem to be taking a while only 16.5 going in no idea why though did think it could be the atmosphere lots of steam!!

 

[czechmate]

Does spring wheat grain take more drying than Winter wheat????

normally by this time of year no need to have fans on.

so in a 3.2m deep store with a wooden floor and 50hp fan with gas burner and humidity sensor which has been on since early september, the change in moisture appears to have been negligible in the top 1/3 of the heap. despite three passses with a 1.8m stirrer. agreed it was pretty wet when it went in (19%). the bottom is 15%, the middle 17 and the top not much less than 19%.

absolute wits end. might drag the lot out and bury it, that sick of looking at it.
may well be £200+ but no-one wants 17% wheat even in a famine.
do Tey Farm Services still sell Trailer driers? @Andrew K

You’d be better off buying a batch drier than dumping the grain. I may know of a good one not that far from you

 

[Jo28]

We managed to dry ours from 23%, slightly different because we use a diesel fan. No stirrers, just ran it 24 hours a day for around 3 weeks. I was always told if wheat was above 17% forget about humidity and just run the fan continually until below 17%.

 

[oil barron]

no, the fan is on when its low humidity and off when not. simples

If you are running it with a gas burner as well why do you switch of with humidity? They grain will only dry when the heat gets into it.

 

[Oilseed]

I have some spring wheat that reads 18% on a Marconi meter.
It bites hard I would guess nearer 16% and I have recently moved some out of a bin and it definitely didn't flow like 18% grain.
Is it possible moisture meters can give an inaccurate result with some grain?
Does the OP wheat bite hard?

Edit it was cut with quite a lot of greens in it.

 

[Fuzzy]

Lifted from teyfarmservices website

Also these available with upto 4M augers

I would suggest starting with a longer auger than you currently have, and turn off humidity control for daytime drying until you get down to around 16%.

 

[principal skinner]

Drop a few samples into a merchant for moisture tests to be sure?

Could a neighbour run it through a drier for you?