Old Grain Bins

Navajo350 · Sep 5, 2018

I have 2 old grain bins on a property I just bought. I heard of interesting iseas with gazebos and such, but does anyone know if I could use these for drying and storing corn still? One is 5 rings and the other is 6 rings, about 14' diameter and at least 13' high. Only thing left on both are the walls and roof.

Bob

casecollectorsc · Sep 6, 2018

They need a drying floor and a plenum to hook the dryer to the floor space in order to get dry air to move thru the grain in the bin.

Leroy · Sep 6, 2018

Do they have good floors? That is important for use. As is good for soybeans or other crops that are harvested dry. If you have a stand alone corn drier to dry the corn before putting in the bins it will worl but the corn has to be dried to 15% or less moisture. I am assuming the sidewalls are sollid steel sheets and not perferated steel as early cribs for ear corn were and no good for small grains or shelled corn.

paul · Sep 6, 2018

If holes aren?t rusted in they can store grain. Looks like one at least is built on an old corn crib foundation.

Drying is a little different, to dry in a bin you need lots of air, usually some heat, and usually some way to stir the grain, and a slotted floor to
push the warm air through. If you skip the ?usually? bits other i$$ues come up instead. Anyhow the drying part is the costly bits, and often
cheaper to start with a new bin that fits in with the whole drying system, rather then retrofitting something that old.

Can be done, but if you need drying look at the dollars vs the headaches with bins that well worn.

Paul

Farmallb · Sep 6, 2018

I used an old oil tank for a grain bin. It sat on a concrete foundation. I cut a door in it, and burnt out the BS. It had a leak in the roof I was never able to find, and water would trickle down the side into the feed or grain. That would spoil it, but IF I fed it quickly to hogs, it worked. Finally the acid ate away the base of the metal, and mice started to get in. That was the end of that.

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