GRAIN RECEIVING AND STORAGE FACILITY IN MIRAGE FLATS
Storage at Mirage Flats consists of a pair of 310,000-bushel Chief corrugated steel silos standing 80 feet in diameter and 64 feet tall at the eaves. The silos have flat concrete floors, outside stiffeners, 16-inch Springland sweep augers, and fully automated 14-cable OPI Integris grain temperature and moisture monitoring systems.
A set of four 50-hp Caldwell centrifugal fans provide 1/7 cfm per bushel of aeration.Incoming grain trucks are weighed on an 80-foot pitless truck scale from Sooner Scales and sampled with a probe from CR Mfg. located adjacent to the scale. from there, trucks are routed to one of two 100-bushel receiving pits. Both pits feed into a 20,000-bph Schlagel leg encased in a Warrior tower and equipped with a single row of Maxi-Lift 20×8 CC-MAX buckets mounted on a 21-inch belt.
The leg deposits grain into a Schlagel four-duct syncroset distributor. This can send grain out to storage via Schlagel overhead 20,000-bph drag conveyors or by gravity spout to a Lowry 3,000-bushel surge tank for loading trucks. The storage silos empty onto Schlagel 12,000-bph drags running through above-ground tunnels back to the receiving leg.