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| We have always dried and cooled before dumping corn. This year it looks like we need to dump hot. I have searched and read as many possible questions about this on this forum.
Ok hears the situation. We will be drying with MC continuos flow dryer dumping into a 9000 bushel bin. This bin has a concrete floor and the only fan is small with an air tube that runs across the floor. The bin also has a side discharge pipe that will dump about 5000-6000 bu at a time leaving everything below it in the bin. From the side discharge we run it up the leg and into a 50000 bu bin. This bin has two large cent. fans that move alot of air. Neither bin has a spreader. We will be removing some corn from the big bin and moving it to flat storage eventually, then refilling it with more corn.
My thought is that we could dry and cool for the first 9000 bushel then dump the small bin into the large so that both bins had dry cool corn on the bottom and the start filling the bins with hot corn.
Question is how would you do it. What temp and moisture should we dump the dryer at? Should we run the fans on both bins all the time? How much moisture can we take out of the corn after it is dumped? We will for sure eventually be bumping in sub freezing conditions. Will this work? do you see any problems with doing this? I know the small bin should have a full floor and big fan so we could just cool it in there, but that is a job we have not got done yet.
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Dumping hot corn? again
