Friday thank you notes

[furrowtickler]

Rent fir $2850.00/ week ?
You can buy a frost fighter heater for near that
I have not compared specs on the two heaters but I am quite sure you will burn more diesel with frost fighter. I used a frost fighter to add heat to aeration to dry hemp. It worked so well somebody stole it!!

Yes frost fighters work very well too .

[biglentil]

Rent fir $2850.00/ week ?
You can buy a frost fighter heater for near that
I have not compared specs on the two heaters but I am quite sure you will burn more diesel with frost fighter. I used a frost fighter to add heat to aeration to dry hemp. It worked so well somebody stole it!!

About 2.5usg/h for my 375000btu model.

[farming101]

yr.no

Who else can better predict the weather forecast in (place community name here), SK CANADA than a weather app from Norway?
They may be slightly off but no !ALERTS! at 4:30 am every day.
I don’t like the existing situation but good grief, give your balls a tug and look out the window, you will figure it out for yourself.
The reliance on technology for weather, machinery, agronomy, daily driving vehicles, domestic schedules/ marching orders is disgusting. Who is farming who?

Well, yr.no has us down for a fair bit of cloud and small showers for Oct 20-22. If that computer in Norway is right I'll send it a bitcoin. If it's wrong I'll send it a power surge

[poorboy]

Yes frost fighters work very well too .

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.

[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.