15% mst canola

[helmsdale]

Full floor would be ideal, in really wet wheat (by really wet, i mean full of snow and ice) i got channels above the cross ducts. and around the outside bottom edges.

Yes, water dripping from every seam, brown ooze as well.

I did it mostly in the really cold weather, that was a bad idea. moisture condenses under roof, and canola freezes to the walls. Can't auger chunks of ice when they fall off.

I used propane, so i used direct heat, by also routing the exhaust into the fan. Dont do this with diesel.

This year i bought some moisture cables to take the guess work out of it.

Sure wouldn't use direct fired diesel when dealing with canola, but did it with wheat and had good results with the exception of when it was very cold outside.

Had two 180,000 btu heaters stuffed into a 10hp centrifugal fan on 9000 bu bin but only filled to about 6500bu. Shoveled the roof peak flat since it's a door pull bin, but would have just pulled the cone off if I had a center pull. Dries more evenly if you can flatten the top out some. Took wheat anywhere from 19 to 23 down to high 13s. Bottom of the bin was like 7-8 and top ring still tough, but whole bin would average high 13s.

There was a slight odor of diesel exhaust but if you can blow natural above freezing air over it for a few days most of the odor disappears.

Issue I ran into during very cold outside temperatures under 0°f was moisture condensing in the grain on the outside 2" against the walls. I could keep the roof from condensing by stuffing an evacuation fan into the fill hole, but couldnt prevent the walls from condensing. I assumed the whole bin was VERY dry because I pushed the tough plug right out and the top was probing mid 10s, but didn't take into account the cold outer walls.

Even in very cold ambient temps so long as you still turn the bin, which i didnt,it'd likely all blend out.

[woodland]

Thanks for all the replies! Ritchie's Edmonton sale is this week and I see they have a bunch of these heaters there so we'll probably go shopping. We got two 21 bins with 10x10 foot aeration floors in them so we'll try them out. I'm sure I'll have more questions so thanks for everything so far. Tested the last load and it was 17%. More fun ahead here.

Almost finished baling for the year here. 50 acres of tough second cut that's been down a month should get rolled up today. One more thing crossed off the list.

[Crestliner]

Thanks for all the replies! Ritchie's Edmonton sale is this week and I see they have a bunch of these heaters there so we'll probably go shopping. We got two 21 bins with 10x10 foot aeration floors in them so we'll try them out. I'm sure I'll have more questions so thanks for everything so far. Tested the last load and it was 17%. More fun ahead here.

Almost finished baling for the year here. 50 acres of tough second cut that's been down a month should get rolled up today. One more thing crossed off the list.

I have a Dry Air System for sale that is fired by propane. All aeration fans and glycol lines and heater shed are available. The system is commected to 6 bins each 4000 Bushels. Excellent condition, selling because I went to a continuous flow dryer. Private message me is you are interested.