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| To just answer your question site 1 no question about it.
More in depth, I would not want to be miles from my bin site. Someone is there 24/7 when the dryer is running in the fall even if they're asleep. We have a mix of old and new handling equipment. Propane works fine just get setup to easily take a truckload at a time. Natural gas would be great, I would choose 3 phase before natural gas though. I'm not familiar with what 3 phase service charges are and maybe that would change my mind. It's not near us and we've always had to run off phase converters.
I'm happy we have a dryer and I believe it pays well. I don't have a quick way to put a pencil to it but air drying bushels and transferring between multiple bins as you described here and in the other thread sounds grossly inefficient from a cost and time perspective. I also despise wet corn in medium term storage more than most here it seems.
It's interesting seeing how you run your operation per this post and the earlier one about the auger. I have no idea how you're able to store 600k bushels in bags on top of waiting for it to field dry before harvest. It's commendable. You must be quite successful in this a you don't seem to be bothered by the dollar figures being thrown around regarding buying the site, running 3 phase for miles, etc. That said is it really worth doing these monstrous infrastructure upgrades if what you do works so good? Only you will know this, how much career you have left and where you want the operation to go.
A dryer and a couple bins paired with your bagging would get you a much more efficient setup than you have now for a fraction of the cost of this proposed project. A way to store and quickly dry grain out of the field as soon as its ready, dried grain can be transferred to bags or loaded out quickly to go to town, and you'd have the option to go from the bags back into the bin if you had a bag issue or needed to be prepared to haul a bunch out quickly.
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Bin site: Is drying with propane really that bad?
