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SW Illinois | We parted with our Shivvers a couple years ago, but probably the last three years that we had it, we were drying 30-40,000 bushels of beans per year in it.
I believe we ran 100 max plenum temp and that worked well. It’s easy to get air through beans and they dried fast. I should mention that we had a wet bin feeding our Shivvers, along with a Level-Dry. Our grain depth was a constant and table-top flat 4’, which is where we got high airflow and high capacity.
The grain quality was good, except for the bottom of the bin. There was a fair amount of bean meal when sweeping the bin out.
Don’t plan on taking much moisture out in by cooling. They dry so fast and easy that the grain temp never gets that high. If the grain isn’t very hot, you can’t take much out by cooling. I think I set the transfer moisture about .5% higher than the final target.
We never had any issues with making a mess of the floor, but you won’t believe how fast beans will wear out your tapered sweeps. I always thought that drying 200,000 bushels of corn did less wear than that 30-40,000 of beans did. We were drying double-crop beans in November, when they wouldn’t dry in the field.
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Drying Soybeans
