Frankenbrew Mash Tun Clean Out?

[honkey]

For those of you that are using flat top dairy tanks as mash tuns, how much of a pain is it to clean those out? Are you just using a shovel and climbing in once you've gotten what you can reach from the outside?

[Scott M]

The only one I've worked at was waist high at the sides and we were able to use a flat blade shovel to lift out the spent grains into blue plastic drums on a pallet, 4 drums to a pallet. The rest, what little there was; went into the floor drain.

[SMiller]

We wheel in one of our 2 yard dumpsters to the side of the mash tun and start shoveling from the top.

[ModernLover]

Mine is about 5 1/2 feet in the air and I shovel it out in under 20 minutes. It's a bit of work but I like to think I'm preventing brewer's droop.

[bwalden234]

Clean out

Our mash tun is a dairy tank and its top rim sits a little higher than stomach height. We clean it out with a shovel into trash barrels that we dolly outside for the farmer to pick up. Its a lot of work, but it only take 20 - 30 minutes to clean it out.

[Doublebird]

Mash tun

I have a 7bbl system and use a 275 gal dairy tank (got for a great price) and use unionjacktools.com one piece shovel under their brewery section. It works great, I shovel it into 1/2 cut barrels on a dolly and then rinse it out at the end into the grant with a nylon bag so very little goes down the drain.
Mike