Baytree Colony

The main component in the system is the 12” x 10,000 BPH Commercial Hutchinson Grain Pump loop drag chain conveyor. The key to this commercial Grain Pump Loop is that it is designed with double 81XHH chain which allows for a much longer Grain Pump system design than the standard 12” Hutchinson Grain Pump which only has one strand of 81XHH chain. The double chain allows the designer to put larger HP drives on, which means a longer line of bins and more bushel capacity under one line. This Loop drag chain conveyor is installed on a slant where the top run goes across the top of the Meridian 1620 loadout bin above the truck loading/unloading driveway, the 4 Sukup 2707 hoppers used for wet surge, the five Sukup Model 5409 flats and the three Sukup Model 4809 flats. The other two Sukup 2707 hopper tanks are positioned above the bottom run of the loop and all of the Springland U-Trough/sweep bin unloaders in the 5409’s and 4809’s unload directly into the bottom run of the loop. So if a truck comes in from harvest with wet grain that needs to be run through the dryer it will drive onto the driveway ramp over the bottom run of the Hutchinson Grain Pump Loop, unload into the truck receiving hopper, from there the Grain Pump elevates and conveys horizontally the grain at 10,000 BPH into one of the four Sukup 2707 wet surge hopper tanks. The wet surge hopper tanks are unloaded through the Sukup 16”x17” curved incline drag conveyor to the 12” Lambton Grain Cannon drag which takes it to the top of the Sukup 2414 Mixed flow dryer. The Mixed flow dryer has a 10’ extension on its unload drag conveyor so that it reaches out and drops dry grain directly into the boot hopper of the Sukup dry grain bucket elevator – this Sukup bucket elevator lifts the grain up and drops it into one of two Sukup 2707 hoppers (dry surge hoppers) – when these two Sukup 2707 Hoppers are full of dry grain they empty directly into the bottom run of the loop chain conveyor which allows the operator to move the dry grain at 10,000 BPH into any of the bins in the system. When a truck comes in from harvest with dry grain it also unloads into the truck receiving hopper and from there the grain is elevated and conveyed to any storage bin in the system. The 4 Sukup Model 3610 bins were positioned off to the side of the main line because the allowable HP was maxed out. An extra top discharge gate was installed on the Grain Pump in order to allow the operator to unload a truck through the Grain Pump up and along the top to this extra top discharge gate where it discharged into a 12” Lambton Grain Cannon drag conveyor over to the line of 4 Sukup 3610 flats off to the south side of the main line. Another 12” Lambton Cannon drag is used to distribute the grain to any one of the 4 Sukup 3610’s (at 10,000 BPH). • All of the storage can be filled from the one truck receiving point, • All of the bins can be filled with dry grain out of the dryer. • All of the storage bins except for the 4 x 3610 flat bottom bins are unloaded through the 12” Hutchinson Grain Pump back to the Meridan Model 1620 Hopper on an overstructure above the truck driveway. • Reclaim conveyors back to truck loading for the 4 Sukup 3610’s will be a part of future storage expansion. Skyway’s crews started construction at the beginning of June 2019 and the system was commissioned and in full operation by September 17, 2019.