How to choose a grain dryer: Electric or PTO drive? - PEDROTTI GRAIN DRYERS Tutorials 01

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01 - ELECTRIC AND PTO DRIVE: How to choose a grain dryer
In this video, Fabio Pedrotti shows and explains which are the differences between an electric grain dryer and a grain dryer driven by the shaft of a tractor (PTO drive).
Each model has indeed PROs and CONs and looking at this video, it will be possible to achieve a better understanding of the different characteristics of the two kinds of grain dryers, to make the best choice for your case.

Hello, my name is Fabio Pedrotti, and I'm here to introduce you in the world of our mobile grain dryers. Our factory produces only batch recirculation grain dryers, and this kind of machines are usually known as mobile grain dryers. But what does mobile mean if our dryers can reach up to 12 mt in height and a 4.5 mt diameter?
First of all, every mobile grain dryer is fitted with industrial tire wheels to move the dryer inside the farm area.
Furthermore, this term is used to differentiate our kind of models from the fixed tower dryers that are substantially buildings to perform massive drying.
Speaking of mobile grain dryers we have to make a further distinction, very important if you intend to choose a grain dryer. You have to choose between PTO machines and electric machines. The first thing to understand when choosing a model of mobile grain dryer is indeed if you need to move it often or if the dryer will remain more or less in the same place during the drying season. So if you are a contractor and you need to move often your machine between many farms, or if you need to dry directly in your fields, you will need a PTO grain dryer like this one.
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PTO machine means in fact that the shaft of a tractor drives the machine so that the dryer can work in any place. The fuel tank is on board, and a generator provides electricity to the Machine producing it from the movement of the shaft. These models are completely independent grain dryers, being always ready to work wherever needed. Often completed by road lights, double lines of tires and hydraulic brakes, they are the perfect machines to work outside from your farm.
Now let's see the other option, the most sold one: the electric grain dryer.
An Electric grain dryer is a machine that mounts on board only electric motors, so it's functioning depends on the electricity supply line. Even if your farm is in a location where electricity is not always stable, it is possible to use electric dryers fitted with the optional power pack generator to use in emergency cases. When the machine has not to move so often as for contractors, we always advise to choose an electric dryer. The reason is that less mechanics is implied in the functioning and furthermore it can run on its own, without the constant presence of the operator. A PTO machine instead needs always a working tractor along with the operator during all the loading, drying, and cooling phases.
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It is also a considerable advantage that electric machines can be automatic or even host 4.0 protocols, with remote assistance and remote viewing from all your tablets smartphones and electronic devices. They can be matched to silo plants and rule multiple elevators, transporters, silo fans and timings of all the stocking line, becoming the real arms and brains of the farms. They can also provide you with real-time emails or SMS on the functioning of your Pedrotti, with consumptions records and data of all the drying season, producing when needed a file on USB drive, ready to be used in Excel or the calculation software used inside your farm.  It also can be updated with the last releases from our website.

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