Dry fertilizer storage

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Anyone ever put these 3k flat bottom bins on a hopper bottom, then lined them with epoxy paint or rubber roof coating and used them for dry fertilizer storage? We’ve got a few of these that we don’t use anymore and trying to brainstorm ideas for them.

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Great question. But i wondered the other day about an old cement silo. . maybe pour new floor and auger. . wont sweat like steel.

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True. Pretty dry out here. Some sweating would still happen but not like up in your neck of the woods.

Really looking hard at switching over to a dry fertilizer program but if I do then I’m gonna need storage other than a grain trailer. Figure if I could repurpose these bins I’d be money ahead vs a Meridan tank.

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Flat storage ? Special products for building. But the you can repurpose if unused. I started looking into a meridan bin. But sure. Now we dump and cover potash and some map.

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Use to work at a Co.op with meridians. They sucked. You will wear out a rubber mallet. Guy in town out bins like that up on cones for grain and wished he had just bought new meridians. I vote flat storage.

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I've used flat bottom bins for urea. Painted the bottom 6-12" of the galvanized sheets. Works ok for winter filling and use during seeding.  A fertilizer spreader for clean-up afterwards is nice.

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I've tried it, small bins only though id say. 
It works but next time I'd try putting 4 mill plastic up the side wall about 8'.  The downside is any moisture that gets in will be bad...

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A few years ago I found new smooth walls bins were similar if not cheaper than a cone bottom.  You can get a steeper sloped cone for fert with smooth wall bins.

I have been told to always put a bag of floor dry at the bottom of a hopper bin before putting in fert for storage.  It does help.

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