About every 1/2 year I try to empty my silo and I only get ~ 4 silos per year (22 MT per fill). Flex auger conveyed about 75 feet to roskamp mill, then gravity drops into a bulk feed tank on scales. If the bulk feed tank post mill is empty and I weigh a bag of grain (56 pounds on the analog weigh scale near specialty malts) and put it on top of the bulk feed tank, the digital scale reading the weight of the bulk feed tank scale reads 56 pounds. This process can be repeated at higher weights. Example: flex convey bulk malt so that post mill scale reads 500 pounds, then add the bag of grain, the digital scale then reads 556 pounds. If I put four bag atop 1,000 pounds of milled grain, the digital scale read 1224 pounds. Point is, the digital scale post milling is quite accurate.
So why on earth is the bulk malt that I pay for per pound always, and I mean, always short?
Today when I emptied the silo prepping it for delivery next tuesday I was supposed to have 1434 pounds in it. But there was only 689, a difference of 740 pounds. Now, when you consider that there has been 145,000# of grain through it, the bulk malt carrier's scale is only off by 0.5%. however, in 14 silo fills over the last three years, its never been over, its never been right on, and its always under. Any one else have this problem? If I am buying 10 pounds of potatoes, I want 10 pounds of potatoes. If I am buying 46,000# of malt, I want 46,000# of malt....
So why on earth is the bulk malt that I pay for per pound always, and I mean, always short?
Today when I emptied the silo prepping it for delivery next tuesday I was supposed to have 1434 pounds in it. But there was only 689, a difference of 740 pounds. Now, when you consider that there has been 145,000# of grain through it, the bulk malt carrier's scale is only off by 0.5%. however, in 14 silo fills over the last three years, its never been over, its never been right on, and its always under. Any one else have this problem? If I am buying 10 pounds of potatoes, I want 10 pounds of potatoes. If I am buying 46,000# of malt, I want 46,000# of malt....
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