Project story · Colony · Manitoba
Barn heat and grain drying from one fuel floor
A colony in Manitoba heats its barns and dries its grain on wood chips. One walking floor feeds two 13 million BTU SCW units. Both jobs used to run on propane, and fuel cost is now about half.
- Location
- Manitoba
- Operation
- Colony: barns and grain
- System
- Two SCW units, 13 million BTU each (3,810 kW)
- Jobs
- Hot water for the barns, hot air for the grain dryer
- Fuel
- Wood chips
- Replaced
- Propane
- Fuel handling
- One walking floor feeds both units
- Installed
- 2024
- Fuel cost
- About 50% lower than propane
The job
The colony had two big propane loads: heating the barns all winter, and drying grain at harvest.
Instead of two separate systems with two fuel piles, both jobs now run off one fuel building and one walking floor.
What we built
- Two 13 million BTU units side by side, each with our chain grate stoker, which handles wet and mixed chips without jamming.
- A hot water boiler that heats the barns.
- A heat source that sends hot air down a duct to the colony's belt grain dryer.
- One walking floor and auger system that feeds both.
- Firebox, stokers and controls built in our shop in Headingley, Manitoba.
On site
The result
The barns and the grain dryer both run on wood chips from one pile. Fuel cost is about 50% lower than it was on propane.
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