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Morris, IL | I guess i'd say the dealers all say blower is way to go, blower system wasn't that costly compared to augers in my opinion. Way i figure is with an auger you have to keep bin shorter or have really long auger, or two augers. With blower system we have ben pricing a 36'x36'+ bin. That is probably going to take 2 augers to hit bin. I guess i just figured another 10-15k is worth it in the long run if we add another bin or something like that. It's that $100 to go from an In bin stir-ator system to a CF of any kind that is hard to justify.
About your Farm Fans vacuum cool. Is yours a per GSI/FarmFans deal or after? I know the literature GSI gave us had your dryer model (GSI version) in it but dealer say he didn't sell many and didn't think they were still making them. I see the new literature doesn't have them listed. 10-15%, i was expecting more difference. Way i'm looking at it i need .5 cents to pay in life of dryer or 1 cent in life of loan. I guess your figures aren't that farm from that.
I guess doing some figuring, doing full heat and an auger for now, that is getting to sound a lot better and better all the time compared to 42' drying bin. One thing with a CF dryer system is you can change things in the future a lot cheaper then a in bin system.
Aaron, would you mind emailing me sometime when you figure out total cost with electricity i would really appreciate it. Does your electric cost go up when you vacuum cool or does the fact that you don't need a bin cooling fan running offset that? | |
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