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Grain receiving building, seeders, Mill, 3-22-26

Posted 3/22/2026 17:22 (#11593344)
Subject: Grain receiving building, seeders, Mill, 3-22-26

Latimer Iowa

Monthly pic update on the oat mill for those interested. Please feel free to ask any questions.

With the warmer weather we have been working on the footings of the grain receiving building. The building will be 50'x80' by 26' foot high and split lengthwise down the middle. The scale and probing area will be under the south side of the structure and oat unload under the north side. The scale and probe are 100% under the roof with samples being sucked to the office. There is a grading room in the main warehouse office and there is a room on the side of the receiving building that may come into play. Trucks will then loop around the mill and back into the unload facing the same direction. We have to run labs on the samples, so the time to loop around the mill is irrelevant and will allow us space and time to divert a truck if needed. I wanted to put in a trucker "lounge" bathroom in the receiving building but the cost of running sewer and water to a bathroom from the warehouse office area was prohibitive (120,000) with code requirements and heat. For now a portaloo is the solution. Cost and cleanup is likely why that is why porta potties are all that is offered at most facilities for truckers. Concrete pillar is for the probe. Scale company really pushed to install last fall before a price increase on the 1st of the year so working around that. I can pull more detailed building blueprints if someone wants them, it would make a great receiving building on a farm too.

I despise grain handling equipment below ground because of water protrusion and cleaning so there will be nothing below grade. The floor level of the truck dump area will be 6' above ground grade and will have two vfd screws pulling grain to a central conveyor. This will allow dumping both hoppers without moving a truck and will have the truck 100% inside while dumping for dust and weather. We can clean oats and unload at about 9500 bushels per hour so should be adequate for our needs. Will be unloading less then 20 trucks per day.

More pictures inside, We are blocking in the hammer mill to keep noise down. If it ever has to be replaced we can just knock out the concrete block.
MCC's have started to arrive. Knobelsdorff Electric from Goodhue MN is doing the install. Good to have a local firm able to handle it and do the automation.
Vibratory bottoms on the bins to prevent bridging of oat flakes. A picture of the hand crank gear reduction winches. They use these to set the equipment of the levels below. The floors have small holes that the cable is threaded through. A pic of the 28" auger that will feed the first stage cleaner. CEO's toilet on the roof*** The raised concrete on the roof is for the Air Makeup system to sit on. We spent extra money to fully enclose the air filter bag house to be nicer for service.

On the farm we are trying out a 40' Case P500 CCS seeder this year as well as our 50' Deere 1890 seeder. Hopefully it dries up enough to plant oats this week. I have no experience with a Case seeder but the row units look very well made and 1/3 the grease zerks of the the Deere. The dealer had it on the lot so we are trying it out to see how well it plants oats. Any calibration or tips or it would be appreciated.

Edit to add pics from phone.

Edited by Green Acres Guy 3/22/2026 18:08