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| Do not run the stirators all the time...all you're doing is wearing out he augers shaking fines to the bottom and it'll take longer to dry that corn.
Grain dries from the bottom UP in that bin...so the "dry-line" moves up through the grain over time. If you keep stirring it up you move wet grain to the bottom and dry grain to the top...now as you push the moisture up from the bottom it will make the dry corn on top wet again(you'll keep recycling the same moisture). When you put 18% corn in a bin you run them to make it level...then turn it off. Flip in on once a day for a few seconds to keep the grain from packing around the augers(otherwise you'll be up in there with a big pipe wrench to get the going again) Monitor the moisture of the grain on the top of the bin, initially it will get wetter as all the moisture from the bottom moves up through it....the day it starts to fall....THEN you turn your stirators on for a day to mix the bin to create a uniform mixture.
Constantly disturbing that dryline by running the stirators extends drying time....and you should be running that fan 24/7, shutting that off can cause the dryline to stall and not keep moving up.
In a natural air drying situation the only use for the stirators is to mix the bin AFTER its dried...it won't help at all to actually get it dry. The only use is to have a bin that is all the same moisture when you haul it out...instead of 12% at the bottom and 17% on top. If your elevator will average loads(I don't know of one that will) then they are almost entirely useless. | |
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Do you need to run stir-ators all the time?
