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| While I have nothing to contribute, I just wanted to say thanks for asking this as it is really insightful hearing everyone's thoughts as I'm starting from scratch on designing a site that will last me 30+ years. Of the hours of reading various threads, this was one of the best with being real about the business decision of grain handling. Family has never had a grain facility, just hauls everything in off the field. I have an off-farm career I don't see myself leaving when my parents decide to demote themselves to steering wheel jockeys, so I need to gain some significant efficiencies to make this work in the fall. Trucks/elevator/cost of commercial drying I'm seeing as my biggest risk/liability. Farting around with augers just seems like a headache while I'm doing this outside of daylight hours or my 'help' being older. So far, my brainstorming keeps bringing me back to a double run from a pit to wet bin rather than a high capacity leg. Running the bin unloads into a common conveyor that gets to that double run and using a K valve to discharge into a truck for load out rather than into the wet bin is how I'm thinking of making decent time and not hating life while loading out in the winter. All the sketching does make me keep coming back to am I creating too much complexity just to avoid the expensive leg. For ****s and giggles, we did price a dream setup last fall and while it would be nice, that price was absurdly outside of doable. | |
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Justify a Grain Leg
