|
SE MN | Have had one since 1994 and they are a very trouble free simple dryer. You get better test weight because you are drying at a lower heat. Need to have a wet bin to increase your daily capacity. All in all a very good system. With that being said I am adding a continuous flow dryer to our system for next year. Going use the top dry and new dryer. The one problem with the top dry is when you out grow it. Not as easy to expand as a contiuous flow. The top dry can be made to be continuous flow and that would cut down on the amount of labor. Ours is too old to switch to it and is in the wrong place now so ours is a very labor intensive system.
One thing I forgot is that when the corn is above 25% they don't work as good. Takes a lot longer to do a batch and I need to refill mine after it runs for a while because as the corn drys and shrinks away from the center the air just goes up through the center with no corn there. Seems like 25% is kind of the point where they work much better.
Edited by gbfarmer 12/31/2009 11:24
| |
|
Top Dry grain dryers
