Grain Dryers

[mgh]

Does anyone have experience with either GSI or DryMor (Hummingbird, Bluebird, etc) grain dryers? We were thinking about purchasing a continuous, but someone said that the continuous batch types are even better yet. Please shed some light on this if you can!

[fvoth]

Does anyone have experience with either GSI or DryMor (Hummingbird, Bluebird, etc) grain dryers? We were thinking about purchasing a continuous, but someone said that the continuous batch types are even better yet. Please shed some light on this if you can!

Both the continous and continous batch dryer will dry grain. Depending on the dryer make and air flows one should be as fuel efficient as the other.

For large volumes of grain of one variety the continous flow may be the answer.

If the volume to be dried on a daily basis is such that a automatic continous or batch dryer has the capacity to get the job done it is the choice for most farm operators for advancing the harvest.

Take a senario of starting to combine earlier in the day. A producer may combine 3, 4, 5, 6, 7000 or more bushels and then the grain come from the field dry.

A continous flow dryer will take supervision and start-up. From starting to fill till the dryer is fully operational will take about 2 hours.

Every adjustment takes some time to take effect. An adjustment may take up to 1 hour before knowing whether the adjustment was correct.

A modern automatic continous batch type dryer (GSI, Farm Fans, and SuperB) takes minimum supervision of approx 15 - 20 min from srart to fill until it is operational.

Large volumes 20 - 50,000 plus bushels at a time can use continous flows.

Smaller volumes should will find the other dryers much much more convenient for daily use to advance the crop.