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E.Central MN | Some batch dryers can be run continuous, but some especially the older ones cannot. Separate dryers require more augers, more motors. Several neighbors have bin dryers and seem to do great with them. Instead of harvesting 600 bushels and then monkeying around with the batch dryer for half a day they put a couple thousand in the bin and then start the bin dryer. While its running they harvest more corn and fill it to its drying maximum. At that point they stop harvesting and start doing tillage or other things for a day or two while the drying bin does its thing. At that point they empty the drying bin into storage bins and then start the process all over. Meanwhile with our batch dryer we harvest til we fill the holding bin and the trucks. Our batch dryer takes 10 minutes to load, takes about 20 minutes to dry, 15 minutes to cool, and 5 minutes to unload. Each batch is 160 bushels. Some years it works flawlessly, some years it acts up. Our dryer dries roughly 12-15k bushels/yr. A continuous flow dryer would be faster, but haven't seen any that were in our budget. Have seen quite a few drying bins that sold relatively cheap at auctions. Just seems like one of those would be a better solution, can always use the bin for storage later.
Edited by PeteMN 6/1/2015 00:05
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Educate me on small grain dryers.
