OK, Here's my 2 cents worth. I have a small farm that was my grandparents, 70 acres, 65 tillable. I'm in NW Illinois. The first 2 years, I had 2 200 bu. gravity wagons and a auger. I had to sell to the only local elevator that would pick it up at the farm, 15 to 20 cents lower price than the other elevators. Fill the wagons and combine and when the semi showed up in the evening, I would unload wagons and combine till I got a semi load. Then I bought a used 500 bu. holding bin and set it up. Then I could fill the holding bin and the wagons and combine and have a semi load. Call them when I was ready and they would come and I would load them up and then fill everything again. Worked OK till it stormed and then I was 13' in the air on a ladder in the wind and rain trying to tarp it. I then bought a used 5000 bu. drying bin with a aeration floor, dryer and a Shivvers unit in it in Iowa. I hired a crew to move it about the time my job disappeared, so I helped them move it and then worked for them most of the summer. Cement costs the same whether for a new bin or a used bin. We disassembled the bin to move it. We left the roof in sections of 3 sheets, put it back up here at home. Then I could combine corn and dump it in the bin, but I didn't have electric to it yet, so I had to wait until the corn was pretty dry. After I got it wired up, I could run the fan and I would start when the corn was about 19% and run air on it to dry it. It worked so well that I bought a used Gov't bin(3000 bu.) and added 2 rings and homemade stiffeners to it. Then I added a used drying floor and a 12" fan. Now I can combine corn and beans and dump into the bins. I farm by myself after work and weekends. I would be lost without the bins. I can fill all 4 wagons and the combine after work and if I don't get them unloaded, I unload tomorrow afternoon when I get home and then combine some more. I have only used the heater 2 years out of about 10 years of use. I always sell in the spring before warm weather arrives. Look real hard at the FSA storage loans, it will pay you in the long run, prices are better after harvest 8 or 9 years out of 10. You will be able to combine when you want to instead of when they will take grain. Used bins set up are about 1/2 price of new unless you go with 3000 bu. or smaller bins. Around here, 18' bins get loaded on a trailer sideways and pulled down the road and set back up in a day. I sincerely doubt you will ever regret getting some kind of bin . Good luck with whatever you decide to do. Chris
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