Friday thank you notes

[ajl]

Buddy of mine used one of those rigs to dry canola in an 8000 bu flat floor bin tow years ago. Worked fairly well. Air temp from the discharge was around 160F and once it was mixed by the 10hp bin fan the plenum temp was 30-34C going into bin. This resulted in over drying off course so when they hauled it in some loads were above 10% moisture and then some was as low as 7% so they paper blended it at elevator. All canola went in to elevator and none was lost.

[furrowtickler]

Furrow do you have temp cables in your bins? If so, how warm does the grain get as it is close to dry? I was assuming that you had 160-180F air going into the bin, but perhaps the temp is measured internal on the heater and the temp going into the grain is much less.

No temp cables
Grain hauled in was 20-25 deg if not cooled
We rain some for three days then just shut heater done let air fan cool it hauled it out next day , that stuff down to 5 deg

[poorboy]

No temp cables
Grain hauled in was 20-25 deg if not cooled
We rain some for three days then just shut heater done let air fan cool it hauled it out next day , that stuff down to 5 deg

I originally thought you were putting 60 degree C air into the plenum. Just couldn’t understand how canola that hot would be safe. Now that I find out it more like 30-35C that makes more sense.

Thought maybe you were onto something new with 60 degree canola.

[furrowtickler]

I originally thought you were putting 60 degree C air into the plenum. Just couldn’t understand how canola that hot would be safe. Now that I find out it more like 30-35C that makes more sense.

Thought maybe you were onto something new with 60 degree canola.

Yup about 100 deg F going into fan on bin at 160 deg F setting on unit
There is a bit of cool outside air that gets into fan on bin .

[Guest]

a real genuine thank you to sask energy for keeping gas coming to our dryer and not playing the federated coop game and creating a shortage and jacking prices
the whole system must be working to capacity with all the cold nights (-17 here one night , no shit) and all the grain drying going on

[furrowtickler]

a real genuine thank you to sask energy for keeping gas coming to our dryer and not playing the federated coop game and creating a shortage and jacking prices
the whole system must be working to capacity with all the cold nights (-17 here one night , no shit) and all the grain drying going on

That’s a huge advantage of a gas dryer if possible 👍👍

[GDR]

Buddy of mine used one of those rigs to dry canola in an 8000 bu flat floor bin tow years ago. Worked fairly well. Air temp from the discharge was around 160F and once it was mixed by the 10hp bin fan the plenum temp was 30-34C going into bin. This resulted in over drying off course so when they hauled it in some loads were above 10% moisture and then some was as low as 7% so they paper blended it at elevator. All canola went in to elevator and none was lost.

I guess that's why I'm a small potatoes kind of farmer but it would scare me to fill an 8000bu bin with tough canola, If it didn't work out well that would be a pricey wreck. Glad it did.

[Oliver88]

a real genuine thank you to sask energy for keeping gas coming to our dryer and not playing the federated coop game and creating a shortage and jacking prices
the whole system must be working to capacity with all the cold nights (-17 here one night , no shit) and all the grain drying going on

Propane had another 3 cent price increase from Federated Coop this weekend.

It would be nice to see the country/provinces push to expand natural gas infrastructure instead of gouging for new hookups.

[sumdumguy]

Hey you guys, this week is going to be awesome! Looking at Regina weather, its shirt sleeve weather. Just spending night in Minot on way home from Indiana. What a trip, only two snow storms to slow us down and very poor cel and gps coverage anywhere around that part of US. You would not believe the millions of acres of corn and soybeans still out. Its wet-really wet in fields. While we were filling with gas, a farmer came over, said he was looking for Gleaners cause they were lighter than his Case in the soggy fields. Walls of unharvested corn and soybeans all the way and only saw one combined wheat field near Bismarck. We were comparing farming there and here and I told him, we are land-locked and suffer from railway and grain buyer squeeze. He said they had some of that too until 4 ethanol plants and three feedlots opened near them. Lucky ducks. When you see how much crop is still out in US, makes us feel pretty fortunate. The tables have turned, we used to get custom combiners coming up from US in late Sept. cause their harvest was done before ours, but now the opposite is true - maybe we can go there and fill our pockets with those heavy yankee bucks.

If I can figure out how to post pictures on here, I’ll get some in the next couple of days.

[Ache4Acres]

Dumguy

I wonder if customs would tear apart your gleaner when you cross the border...looking for a few stray “weed” seeds

But those yankee bucks do sound nice