Friday thank you notes

[fjlip]

other than the local JD for free coffee on their overpriced parts.... Pattison can afford FREE coffee, if gouging elsewhere!

Oh yes, meteorologist, only occupation where you get PAID even if 100% wrong! What a plumb job!

Absolutely agree if not for wife and sons, I would be far away from 93% done, wheat all dried, 90 acres canola to go....
Thank you for almost no snow, but our turn, we got F'd one spring, 18" when almost none of you saw snow.

[jazz]

[I][U]
Oh yes, meteorologist, only occupation where you get PAID even if 100% wrong! What a plumb job!

You forgot climate change researcher.

[fjlip]

You forgot climate change researcher.

Hell ya THEY are paid to spew totally FALSE, misleading, fear mongering, scary information, made up statistics, total BULLSHIT claiming to know the temperature of the WHOLE EARTH to the hundredth of a degree for millions of years previous and a hundred years into the future!!!!!!!!!!!!

[furrowtickler]

A change is on our doorstep after one last kick in the nuts 🥜 , thanks Mother Nature.
Thanks for finally getting my hot water working after 7 days of cold showers
Thanks to RUH for getting my Mom back in shape and safely home yesterday.
Thanks for leaving one field of wheat standing from relentless snow the past month that we actually finished last night .
Thanks for finally getting enough grain off to fill our Sept contracts .
Thanks to Arctic Therm heaters for doing there job drying 2 , 5000 bus hoppers at a time each , kept us moving in the field when possible...... without burning any propane ,gas or diesel. Those flameless heaters do as advertised 👍
Even though it snowed again hard Sunday , it was a better week. Let’s hope we all get at least two weeks of better weather now that the jet stream is moving 👍👍. .... after 6 weeks

Nice not to have to worry about gas , diesel or propane burners at all with these ...

[Tucker]

Nice not to have to worry about gas , diesel or propane burners at all with these ...

They run on liberal promises? In this country we obey the laws of thermodynamics. Where does the energy come from?

[Crazyharrows]

Hey furrow,what is the specs on that one,did you rent it.

[Oliver88]

Nice not to have to worry about gas , diesel or propane burners at all with these ...

What does it run on?

[saskshafe]

So the heat doesn’t magically appear. Do you have any idea what it is costing to dry your grain. Looks like a neat safe system.
Our propane is costing around $0.09/bus. Removing 4.5-5 %. No idea on the power bill.

[furrowtickler]

The Diesel engine runs a friction plate .
Google them for more info .
All I know is that they work very well . Absolutely dry heat .
Just increase engine rpm to increase oil pressure and thus the heat generated.
We are running them around 160 to 180 deg F . Just pull a tandem load out after two days and let er go anouther day or two . Drying about 1 to 1.5 points per day.

They are used all over the oil patch in Alberta .
We fill the fuel tank about every 3-4 days.

[furrowtickler]

Hey furrow,what is the specs on that one,did you rent it.

600,000 btu . Yes we rented two of them . Set up on four 5000 bus bins .
There are larger ones at 1.2 mil btu

[Tucker]

So the heat doesn’t magically appear. Do you have any idea what it is costing to dry your grain. Looks like a neat safe system.
Our propane is costing around $0.09/bus. Removing 4.5-5 %. No idea on the power bill.

"Friction disk" technology is all they'll admit to. Yeah that whole bottom black part is a diesel tank. In this country thermodynamic rules still apply apparently. Sure hope they at least duct the radiator heat into the outlet too. Lose a hell of a lot of btu's up the exhaust making it 'clean' heat. It cost me about $0.30/bu propane only to dry several thousand bushels of feed wheat from 23% to 13.5% at -3c air temp with a Farm Fans dryer. **** that. Wheat can stay in the field and I'll dry the canola.

[furrowtickler]

"Friction disk" technology is all they'll admit to. Yeah that whole bottom black part is a diesel tank. In this country thermodynamic rules still apply apparently. Sure hope they at least duct the radiator heat into the outlet too. Lose a hell of a lot of btu's up the exhaust making it 'clean' heat. It cost me about $0.30/bu propane only to dry several thousand bushels of feed wheat from 23% to 13.5% at -3c air temp with a Farm Fans dryer. **** that. Wheat can stay in the field and I'll dry the canola.

We did some canola from 16.5 to 12 ish in 4 days then hauled er out to elevator
Got some wheat from 19.5 down to dry in about 4 days .
Did not do a lot at those moisture levels but just wanted to see what they were capable of.
Doing wheat now in at 16.5 to 17 . Will haul out Monday .
We just rented to give us some leeway in combine time until Grain was drier in field ... but looks like we will be using a bit more lol