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First load of corn is dry

jon f mn

jon f mn

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One of my sons came up today and I spent some time this morning working on his trailer. After that he helped me bury the electric wire from the well to the barn that has been laying on the ground since last fall when I fixed the well. After that I went and baled the rest of the hay that's been laying for three weeks. That was depressing, not much value in it anymore. But at least it's all done.

After that I finally got started on corn and got the first batch done.


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Was evening when I started and didn't get enough to dry til 8 and after dark.



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The old dryer seems to work real good. Had her cooking.


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Saw this when I turned off the lights.



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The camera really makes it look hot, but the muffler was just glowing. But I open the fuel screw a bit and adjusted the timing to cool that off. The dc handles the dryer real nice it I think I'll put the 830 or 1030 on it to run diesel. The 1030 has thousand pto so it would just idle along and save fuel.
 
It’s great that you can buy equipment that was once so common, but few want or use anymore. Take it home and make whatever necessary repairs yourself, and use the equipment like it was intended. I remember dozens of those on farm dryers around, most have been sitting unused for 20 years and more. Many new elevators have been built around with huge dryers that can dry corn cheaper than a farmer can at home. And large crop farmers also have built their own grain elevators with a main leg, many bins and large dryers..
That hay will look a lot different come January than it does today. Cattle like a change now and then, and it is surprising what they will clean up. Just don’t try to feed it every day, just once and a while.
 
Looks great. I like the pic with the combine filling the wagon and then the dryer. You need to pick up a cheap auger instead of the elevator. I bought a 8x50 with perfect flighting for $200 a few years ago. Thanks for taking the time to post. Tom
 
That elevator will work perfectly, We used an elevator for 35 years in our dryer setup dried millions of bushels of corn. Only needed a 3 horse motor when we switched to a n auger after the elevator wore out the auger needed a 7.5 to do the same job.
 
Nice pictures, it sure brings back memories of days past. Although your still one step ahead of me. I'm still picking my corn and putting it in the crib to dry.
 
Curious as to why you are loading it with the elevator, doesn't it have a hopper on the back side to fill the dryer?
 
The previous owner modified the loading auger to unload into an auger or something so it needs to be repaired to load again. I have the hopper section, just need to redo the part under the dryer.
 
Plus 1 on finding the loading hopper for the dryer. Need one less tractor
to do the job. 1030 can handle the job easily.
 
That is what most do if they have a 1000 RPM capable tractor. Back in the day when those dryers were wide spread a lot of farms only had a 540 only tractor to run grain dryer hence my comment in the other thread about old truck transmissions as a step up in speed. I recall Ford Super Majors, Farmall 450 diesel, AC D15, and Oliver Super 88's on the grain dryer.
 
(quoted from post at 11:07:53 10/11/20) That is what most do if they have a 1000 RPM capable tractor. Back in the day when those dryers were wide spread a lot of farms only had a 540 only tractor to run grain dryer hence my comment in the other thread about old truck transmissions as a step up in speed. I recall Ford Super Majors, Farmall 450 diesel, AC D15, and Oliver Super 88's on the grain dryer.
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ice pictures Jon! How/where does grain leave dryer?
 
Corn is in the low twenties for moisture so it should take a bit less than 4 hours to run a 350 bu batch. I'm hoping I get 4,000 bu this year.
 
If you look at the top rear of the dryer you can see a spout,
turn that to the side and it catches the recirculating corn and
directs it over the side.
 
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