Zeb, an easy way to get into grain drying is to buy a portable PTO batch dryer. Electric is fine if you have a heavy enough service. I have two GT 500 bushel dryers I use (They use the name Tox-o-wick also). They still make them. New ones run well over $20,000. Popularity depended on the dealer network. I know one community where there are still 30 GT driers running according the dealer in the area. I have one at each farm of which both have inadequate electric service presently. I was moving the drier from farm to farm, but find it easier to just set them up in the fall before harvest. I run roughly a 60 horsepower tractor on it. I run a plenem temperature just under 200 degrees and typically bring the grain up to 100 degrees. Wetter grain might have to be dried 1 1/2 hours while drier grain might take 15 - 30 minutes. It really doesn't take much PTO power so some batches loading/heating/cooling/unloading takes less than 4 gallon of diesel. I haven't looked at my lp tank since I was done, otherwise I could give you a better idea of cost. My lp this summer was $1.25 a gallon. It is pretty efficient. This nice thing about drying outside of a bin is that you know what is in the bin because you put it in there in that condition. Dryer/tractor run when I am in the field getting next batch. Shuts the heat off automatically when it is dry. Loads in 15 minutes/unloads in 15 minutes. Nothing is automatic, but it is very very cost effective. Have put 20,000 + bushel through them in a year. I know a guy that was running 30,000 bushel a year using a PTO batch dryer. Another guy I knew had three of them running at the sametime - they might have had over 1000 acres of corn. If you would like to talk we could figure that out someway.
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