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southern MN | I only know 3% more than you about driers, and very little about wheat.
But.
Assuming a continuous flow drier, you heat them up to a certain temp and then adjust the speed the grain flows through them to get the end results you want - grain moves faster if it is drier, and much slower if it is wetter out of the combine.
When you run out of grain, the process stops, as you would just be blowing hot air through the empty screens. Emptying the drier becomes inefficient to start and stop the heater, you want a smooth flow of grain over hours of time.
So, you want some sort of a buffer to feed the grain into the drier at a slow but available pace.
You can feed right out of the truck, but you can see how that messes up your entire process, and you would need 2 trucks at least to keep a buffer of grain to feed in.
Even a batch drier, it is a lot nicer to have some sort of a bin to hold grain ready to feed in, instead of relying upon your main trucks to store the wet grain waiting to go in the drier.
Back in the day with a small drier even a gravity wagon would make a good wet storage bin… then the 500-1200 bu portable bins came along and were very popular. Now in corn country with the 12 row combines eating 3000+ bu an hour a big dedicated bin is used as a wet bin.
You can figure where you fit in on the wet bin size for a wheat operation, but I’m guessing being able to at least hold a full truck full at a time would be desirable.
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