On farm storage

[bigcoupee]

I would look into a generator and 3ph motors nearly double the final efficiency. Those hydraulic hoses will be fairly longggg. Though i dont quite follow the logic in those little augers. Never seen such a creature before must be for mixing?

[Ache4Acres]

Roof augers just to shorten your main auger me thinks...?!?

I second the vote on electric over hydraulic....much better than the hydraulic without the noise or mess or hassle of running a diesel hydraulic pack

[malleefarmer]

What are roof augers all about?Is there flat full floor aeration?

yes to aeration didn't want to buy a 100 ft auger to centre fill so got roof augers

[malleefarmer]

I would look into a generator and 3ph motors nearly double the final efficiency. Those hydraulic hoses will be fairly longggg. Though i dont quite follow the logic in those little augers. Never seen such a creature before must be for mixing?

Roof augers quite common in aust.

hoses are going to steel not hose intergrated in silo steps. with a valve bank at bottom connected to a remoted hydraulic pump powered by I think 18 hp motor now.. which will drive roof augers and unload auger.

power for fans is a 50 kva 3 phase or single phase diesel generator picked up for $6000 with a perkins motor will go for ever id think.

yeah I'm thinking I should have asked you guys a few questions.

plenty of farmer particularly in WA have 1500t brock silos. They have em lined up with one long roof auger with shutes

had a eneterprising grain buyer wander into silo site can be seen from main highway and asked hmmm you would be interested in in a share of a containerizing plant on this site. sorry bud wouldn't add up or would it?

[malleefarmer]

seems to me brock are ok silos? any opinions welcome also have a cyclone butler

a guy about 80 kms away had a chinese bulk set up apparently 600t silos 3 off hmmm last wind storm they headed east and he wasn't insured and had no comeback on silo manufacturers or erecters 2 years old uninsured. Could be bs

the site is on 25 acres on a separate title about 1 km from highway logic was or is build a few more even store grain for others down the track. If it goes pear shaped sell as a going concern

[malleefarmer]

we have two feed mills within 40 kms and they prefer to buy of farmers who have storage for say 200 a tonne for asw wheat delivered but if they have to buy from viterra out of elevator system the same $200 wheat would be 245 but grower who sold to viterra probably got 165/170 you guys know the at times corrupt system.

were we live we are in a hot dry low to medium rainfall area not far from main interstate 48 kms. so ideally situated, but main reason a lot of endusers are setting up out here is disease free status of pork and poultry and beef normally we don't have wet summers like this frosty and wet in winter.

on farm storage is popping up every were mostly bigger than mine but those pricks at vitterra/glencore who have been shutting down small elevators low and behold are now offering these elevators to these big users and off course we will source the grain for you you can have elevator very cheap rather than buy from farmers when quality may not be assured. pricks.

but some of smart guys realize there getting shafted with some of these loaded deals offered by vittera/glencore for example "we will source grain for you at a know price in your leased elevator" then they charge $12 bucks outload fee it to get it there feedlot lots of shit like that they've woken up to but its a 3 year deal scenario.

wish we had a easy non corrupt system like western Canada *sarcasm intended*