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Am considering adding a drying facility and looking the difference options. Our operation would be smaller scale. Any comments or advice is appreciated.
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We’ve got a circulator ii in a 27’ bin. Before that, we had two 27’ bins with heaters and stirrators. One became the shivvers and the other became the cooling bin in the change. Dried 4,000bu/day but had to sweep a bin out every morning with the batch bins.
I’m very pleased with the shivvers. Once set, they’re pretty hands-off. Drying capacity can be whatever you have the budget for, and it’...
I purchased a shivvers system in 2004. it was the 650 bu/hr size had a good experience with it averaging about 250,00 bu/yr. Upgraded to a 950 bu/hr system in 2008. I have been very satisified with the dryer doing about 350,000 nu/yr. It is set and forget, I have had to rebuild the gearbox about every 3rd year, about $4,000 3 years ago. it is a problem when the dryer has a large amount of grain...
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Put up a shivvers system 3 yrs ago. Run around 70000 bu through a year. It is easy to maintain, set up, and run. It may be slower than other dryers, but for us it works good. Fill it by late afternoon, early evening. let it run and its empty in the morning. No one lives at our bin site and no need to babysit it.
The wetter the corn the less you can put in at a time, and the quicker we catch...
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Take a look at the Haber Technologies System.
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do you own one of these systems? I have been communicating with these people and it sounds interesting... what size of bin do you have it in? It appears like bigger the better as far as bin size.