Nice.
Here’s some old pics of a couple structures I built out of chain link top rail for greenhouses, but could also be covered in lightproof fabric for use as a barn. The low one has hoops I bent by hand. The tall one uses emt conduit elbows as connectors.
We have around 400 wet tonnes to harvest and freeze, so the challenge is huge… !
Oh boy…. Didn’t have a drying solution and planted potentially a couple hundred acres?
How are you harvesting? By hand? Chopper head? Stripper head?
That’s a lot of biomass and if you’re in a short window your harvest will be limited severely by harvesting speed.
Give me some details and I’ll help if I can.
We will ensile the material with a kemper harvesting spout, coarse grind it in a big bin with direct incorporation of dry ice, then store it in a -20°C reefer!
it is so nice getting material that is properly prepared/cured compared to a sack of dirt, sticks & pointless weight. The overall end product and work required to produce a high quality product is noticeable imo.
That’s a yikes from me, dog. How much does that freezer storage cost?
Have you done any extraction?
Have you found anyone locally willing to take on frozen input? (Where IS “locally”?)
Have you discussed your milling strategy?
Your proposed milling might work, or it might just make extraction more difficult.
Target is in extra cellular space. Opening cells just means more post extraction cleanup, not more target.
I have turned 40K lb loads away because they were milled incorrectly…and thus not worth my time.
Freezing essentially rules out ethanol as an extraction method. Which in many markets will take out the majority of your potential extraction partners. It will make using water a mess as well.
Essentially leaving hydrocarbons (C3 through C7) and CO2 as options…and at your scale CO2 is probably not an option.
I get you didn’t grow this, in order to salvage the harvest it needs to be extracted. If you make it into something that no extractor will touch, you have failed to help the farmer.
So is this 400 acres? What state / country? What is current potency?
Hey !
We will cryo-sieve the frozen biomass in order to reduce the volume by >80%.
We will guide the follow-up with conventional hydrocarbon extraction
We are based in Europe, 8-10% active on dry equivalent, for more info write to me in DM!
I need to print this out and hand it to anyone that provides me FF because I swear to god most people just don’t get why it needs to get to a freezer ASAP
That sounds like a hell of an endeavor…not impossible if you’ve got access to the pieces.
Good luck!
Nothing is impossible with good partners, brainstorming minds, and some technical means !
use a forage harvester like we did in 2019 - will be 6% once dried and cleaned of wood, but you will have biomass.
