Grain drier maintenance is crucial it ensures safe and efficient drying. Failure to clean the drier during harvest will increase the likelihoodof faults, resulting in the loss of precious time.
Limiting dust around a recirculating grain drier is a difficult business. The Mecmar grain drier features many dust control measures, such as solid screens and bubble top auger and an optional aspirator. These do reduce dust emissions but around a grain drier will always create a dusty environment. Low level maintenance is essential to maximise efficiency and safety in these conditions.
With this in mind we have prepared a quick guide to some of the key areas to keep an eye on. Continue reading ‘Mecmar Grain Drier Maintenance – Dust Control’
I recently came across a book called Drying and Storing Combinable Crops by K. A. McLean, it was published in 1980. A small section (one and half pages in fact) is dedicated to mobile batch grain driers. It is a fantastic indicator of the changes in the UK market in the last 30 years. It also offers some very good advice that is still as true today as it was back then. I will briefly reflect on some of the more interesting points it raises.
Mecmar grain driers come with the option of a 
We have just returned from exhibiting at the Royal Highland Show and as always it was a fantastic event. I think it must be the leading agricultural show in the UK, fully encompassing all aspects of rural life. For the exhibitor, the Royal Highland Showground is an absolute luxury, especially after the mayhem of Cereals this year (why they insist on having such a significant event in a field while Stoneleigh sits empty is beyond me).
Mecmar, for the first time, attended the Royal Cornwall Show last week to support local agent A. G. Prowse of Truro. Allen has been the West Country agent since 2005. He supplies and services both new and second hand Mecmar mobile grain driers.
