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you still alive??

Still here. Another dreary day in NW Iowa. Gonna go fire up the dryer again. Lots of corn in the neighborhood coming out at 19%, I hear.

To date haven't found any under 23% myself. Most of mine is 26% - 28%, due to my own late planting caused by cold wet spring and working around my job schedule. Pretty sure that's not going to happen again as the bean stubble is already worked, and the planter is pretty much ready to run. This was my first and last year of any notill experimenting. Don't think I could stomach another 3 weeks of purple corn.

Here's some cell phone pics. Just too handy to use that instead of dragging a good camera along.

Cutting beans action.
First bin of 38% corn taking the ends off. Couldn't get the air through it.
Friend of mine hauling loads with the 4430
Dad hauling loads in the 4960.
Unloading on the go.
My helper for an afternoon.
Transferring corn out of the dryer.

What do you all do when you're drying corn and you get a 2 day rain and the humidity is 90+% for days on end? Let er buck, or shut it down and wait?


Nice looking shop Mark. Glad to see you getting to work inside for a change!

good pictures
i can related to the set up corn....35% stuff here
we are rolling corn everyday
only had 300 bushel go bad....cow feed
i think we have it dry enough to keep now
65 acres to combine....not in a rush to finish
glad to hear frankie is still kickin
you got a farmer in the making riding shotgun

about the dryer, "most" years when we are drying humidity levels are high, above 70% at least? just our normal wx late Aug, early Sep but we are warm also.......80s? dryer's here rarely shut down because of rain or humidity. i really have never seen much difference here in drying times with high or low humidity? now outside temperature changes i have seen a difference. seems like if nightfall brings a cool down of 10-20 degrees, the dryer slows down.

biggest thing i have learned over many years now of running a dryer is (i) am more apt to over dry than under dry and corn will loose more moisture cooling down than most say or believe. moving corn out of MY dryer hot @ 120 degrees 18-19%, will cool down to 15-16% in short order for me. same scenario except corn tests 16-17% hot and i end up with 12-14% every time. i have had numerous moisture testers, now have a new Canadian Labtronics Motomco 919 and a 8year old Dole. other moisture testers check hot corn wetter than it must be cause in the past with the newer type moisture machines, namely DJs they have caused to me over dry corn a lot.

i pulled a lil outa 4 bins the other day to sum up to 1084bu, first i have taken outa any of the bins since finishing, all these bins are very full. mill checked it 15.2% and i haven't run the fans but one night when it got down cool since finishing.

what is going on with your reel in that 1st pic, optical illusion? JD

I have no idea why that picture turned out that way, cuz it doesn't look that way "real time". Maybe the tilt of the phone, or taking a picture thru the glass?

Great pics Doug, my motorola rzr does the same with pics unless I turn it the other way. I have the exact same reel photos.