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Thumb of Michigan | We set up a wet bin via a close 20K bin. Dumped dry into till half full, pulled the center out, and ended up with around 15K of wet storage. Dumped wet on top of the cone, usually during the day.
During the day, I either dumped into the dryer, or into the wet bin. Whatever gets the truck back to the field quicker. I usually was the one watching the dryer at night as well. I'd get the trucks dumped (slowly, tried to maintain under 4 static pressure) so they were empty in the morning. Then I'd work off the wet bin. When I'd be pulling out of the wet bin, we could run quite slow if needed. Really smoothed things out. I generally could get the cross augers (6") to run continuously for quite a while. A day or 2 w/o shutting off wasn't uncommon if we watched the static pressure and had similar moisture corn coming in all the time.
Used the same auger to dump trucks as I did take corn out of wet bin. Had a swing hopper on a short auger, worked pretty well. I'll try to find pictures later.
Edited by pat-michigan 10/18/2021 12:32
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Anyone added a wet bin ahead of a Shivvers and regretted it?
