The DMC stirrator is a much better unit that the older Suckup ones. It is much easier to maintain. The $500 is cheap for a working one. They are about $5000 new. Plus your bin is already drilled for it. I have them in just about all of my smaller bins. They make storing grain for longer periods of time a much safer thing. You can get rid of wet spots that may heat. Also they are nice to level the bin while unloading. As for covering them up with grain. It is not a real good idea to cover them clear to the roof. in the center. You can easily pull the mounting frame out of the roof when you unload. It is not a good idea to over fill a bin like this anyway. You can NOT get any type of good air flow through grain piled clear to the roof. Do you really need the extra few hundred bushels of storage that you get piling clear to the roof????
What I like about the DMC stirators is they are simple. There is a Mercury switch that runs the gear motor that moves it around the bin. The up right augers will move forward and tilt the frame just a little as they stir the grain. When they tilt the frame so far the mercury switch turns the rotation motor on and it advances until the frame tilt is back to flat. Very simple system. The mercury switch has a thumb screw on it that you can adjust so you get the advance you want. In deep grain you want it to advance just small amounts so it will not break an auger and will stir the deeper grain better. In shallow grain you can make it advance faster as it does not have as tall of column of grain to stir. ONE caution!!! Never fill the bin completely and then turn the stirators on. You will tear them up doing that. Put two rings of grain in and turn them on and let them run the entire time your filling. They will level the grain and blend the corn so it is more uniform. This is really true if your dumping corn warm out of a batch dryer. If your cooling there can be damp spot form where ever there are any air obstructions caused by trash/fines/etc. in the corn.
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