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Pittsburg, Kansas | My son has bins very near to his house. When using the fans, he says it is very noisy. We have axial fans on all these particular bins.
A couple of things will help a lot. Make the fans centrifugal instead of axial. Our other bin site had mostly centrifugal and they were a lot quieter. They will push higher pressures for deeper grain but actually till the grain gets a certain depth the axials will create more flow per horsepower. Depends on your needs.
The other thing is if any fan points directly or near directly at the house. First of all, put it on the opposite side if possible. If not build a noise suppression wall between the bin fan and the house. Points a lot of the noise upward, although certainly not all.
If you are drying and running the fans 24-7 for weeks, it is going to get old for the neighbors. If you only use the fans once in a while to cool the grain out and filling the bins is mostly during harvest they might be able to live with it without complaining too much.
Make a grain elevator that handles hundreds of thousands of bushels for quite a few months out of the year, your name will probably be a household name and not in a good way.
Edited by John Burns 12/20/2024 05:52
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Building Bin Next To Someone Elses House?
