blowing in meal

fanadman1

Can anybody tell me how much space a tonne of meal takes when blown into a shed ?
Thinking on building a meal shed but wondering to myself but want to do my sums to see would it be more cost effective to put up a silo

newholland

fanadman1 wrote: »

Can anybody tell me how much space a tonne of meal takes when blown into a shed ?
Thinking on building a meal shed but wondering to myself but want to do my sums to see would it be more cost effective to put up a silo

A silo is a lot better option

TUBBY

newholland wrote: »

A silo is a lot better option

+1 and i have a meal shed i built. Only reason it has an advantage is if you are getting high molassis content meal or something like that.

fanadman1

the finnishing meal is quite high in molassis does this not work in a silo ??

keep going

fanadman1 wrote: »

Can anybody tell me how much space a tonne of meal takes when blown into a shed ?
Thinking on building a meal shed but wondering to myself but want to do my sums to see would it be more cost effective to put up a silo

Roughly 50 cubic ft per ton

joejobrien

allow for angle of flow when calculating

grazeaway

Meal shed is fine if your tipping in trailer loads. If blowing get a silo makes more sense in the long run and less issues with pests.

Also most bulk delivers are minimum of 3 ton these days.

If you only using small amounts an ibc bag is very handy.

fanadman1

keep going wrote: »

Roughly 50 cubic ft per ton

So would i be right in saying a 10x10x8ft room is 800 cublic feet and in a perfect worl would hold 16 tonne ?

Sam Kade

It's way easier to get meal out of bin instead of shovelling it out of a shed. How much would you pick up a good secondhand 6 tonne bin for?

fanadman1

Never ever see the bins seacond yand i know its easyer and keeps vermij away but aside from this what are the advantages

promises

If you are blowing a blend it has to be less than 4% molasses. Around my area operators have min 4 tonne delivered.

keep going

fanadman1 wrote: »

So would i be right in saying a 10x10x8ft room is 800 cublic feet and in a perfect worl would hold 16 tonne ?

Yes but I wouldnt order that much on the first load:-)

fanadman1

keep going wrote: »

Yes but I wouldnt order that much on the first load:-)

I understand that a real perfect world and it would never hold that much ha

joejobrien

fanadman1 wrote: »

So would i be right in saying a 10x10x8ft room is 800 cublic feet and in a perfect worl would hold 16 tonne ?

your forgetting the angle of repose:D
Its not going to stand straight up ???

fanadman1

Im talkin perfect world here ha in reility im never goin to need more than 8 or 9 tonne ha