I dry outside of the bin and then dump warm corn into the bin. Corn has been cooled some in the drier. I have 3/4 to 1 horsepower motors running 12 inch fans cooling and aerating six bins totaling about 30,000 bushels. Works well, but it takes a while to cool the corn and blow the last moisture out. Bins are all 7 rings high. Originally I was short on electricity at the bin site and could only support the smaller fans. I have now upgraded to 100 amp service. Secondly, 12 inch fans and transitions cost less at the initial construction. I have even taken some 17 and 18% corn down to 15 with the smaller fans if I had good weather in the fall. The smaller fans have to run along time because it takes a lot of cfm to blow the moisture out. There are tables online that show the how TIME and CFM will dry certain percentage moisture corn. If I was to replace everything I would now run larger motors and fans. That way I could actually air dry relatively dry corn out of the field. Many guys around the neighborhood have maybe 5 or 7 horsepower fans on something like an 18 inch fan with no burner. Allows them the chance to air dry if the corn moisture and weather allows. Just depends on if you want the opportunity to air dry or eventually would want to add a burner.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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