Drying video

jon f mn · Oct 11, 2020

Took this last night so it's dark but thought it was interesting.
Drying corn

jal-SD · Oct 11, 2020

Brother-in-law used to run a dryer like that with an H Farmall. It always seemed to run out of gas at the most inopportune time. He connected a line to a liquid LP outlet, connected a metering jet to a vacuum inlet above the carb. Loaded the dryer & got everything running right on gas, closed the gas shut-off while adjusting the metering valve so the engine didn't "stumble". Let her run by herself until batch is dry, unload, repeat. Dryer corn many years with it.

retired farmer · Oct 11, 2020

If I didn't have all these cats, a job, and wasn't sick, it would be fun to come back for a visit and see how you do things back there. Years ago I had one set of grandparents that lived in Monticello and an aunt or two that lived in Minneapolis.

Charlie M · Oct 11, 2020

When I worked at a feed mill in the early 70's we had a continuous drier. Started it about now and never stopped until around Christmas. It was slow drying on the early stuff but later stuff came in drier and went through our drier at a pretty good speed.

Bob Bancroft · Oct 11, 2020

It must have been in the 60's, when a little local mill upgraded dryers, and Dad got their old MC 400 continuous flow. The "big" tractor here at the time was a quite new JD 2510 gas. That thing sure roared, adding to the noise of the dryer. In hindsight, they got a lot out of that little 180 cu in engine. We ran the dryer one day with the WD45, but I think it was right on the governor the whole time, just barely making speed. Along came bigger diesels. The AC 185 was the first one where we could run it on 1000 RPM PTO and save fuel/noise. After a lot of that it seemed like whenever you were running that tractor at that speed where it spent so much time, the governor acted funny. All of that convinced me that I was going to dry in bin, with no tractors running! Now I don't even need one to run auger, since putting up the elevator!

Kow Farmer · Oct 11, 2020

I haven’t seen one of those dryers in action for over 40 years. Glad it is working for you sir. Tractor sound great too. Kow Farmer Kurt

super99 · Oct 11, 2020

You need some lights!!! I had an old tire and rim with a piece of pipe about 10'long welded in the center and had 2 outside lights on it, one pointing up and one pointing down to see to load and unload the dryer.

LarrySTN · Oct 12, 2020

That looks like a GT350 dryer. It's been 24 years since we sold the cows and quit using the dryer. I loved the smell of drying corn. We ran ours with an MF 135 Diesel, it was a good match.

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