Build your own grain store 1 year later, loading lorry’s and Q&A on the build

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Question and answers for the grain store build and loading out grain

[@ipanzerschrecku4732]

Tom Lamb - not just a pretty face and Furze digger driver but also a qualified engineer.

[@PalNevets-rx9wp]

Stunning series. You reckon you don't know all the answers but we all know you do. Absolute Star fella. I'm literally watching your videos all day. Cheers.

[@multipower617]

14,000,000 bowls of porridge there Great to see the store in action having seen it built

[@Konzea]

Love these videos. Often times with the type of videos you usually make where they are pretty short and digestible you can't show how much thought goes into every little detail but this really shows how knowledgeable you are and how much goes into decisions.

[@Tomlamb980]

I have a short attention span

[@OriginalWillowbark]

Townie here. Finding it interesting, thank you! Keep the farming stuff simple and the architectural stuff clever with a great big dollop of heavy machinery and I'm in. Also, Colin sent me :D

[@SeanPalmer62]

Well done Tom that was an interesting roundup of the store, great job 👍

[@paulchurchuk]

Well done and well said 👍❤️

[@chrisgosling6083]

tom you for got the 2 most important thing made from oats #1 hob nob biscuits and #2 flap jacks!!! glad the grain store is serving you well 🚜

[@Kris_T_]

I did my garage floor in 2 bits, the first 3 cube, I mixed and barrowed in myself. The second 3 cube I had delivered in a wagon. The extra cost was more than worth the time and effort saved. I'll never mix more than half a cube myself again.

[@chrispanca1590]

Assuming that the average bowl of porridge is 50g oats, that will give you about 20 bowls in a kilo. Multiply by 1000 per ton and 200 for the heap there and you'll get about 4,000,000 bowls of porridge.

[@peterclarke3300]

The grain store has turned out great Tom and I definitely like the strap idea on the doors because they are a pain for pushing out of the track 👏👏👍👍

[@Tomlamb980]

I’d say half

[@alexannal]

That is a good job. Should be good for the rest of your life. Up in orkney, the billings are a bit stronger. We get a lot of flex in the billings from wind. But nothing wrong with yours built for the conditions

[@GeoffreyDjango]

I think you should have an intro with Ricks ‘Tom Lambs farm’ song as your theme tune

[@andythewelder6181]

Regarding ce marking. Agricultural buildings are class 1 which basically means that ce marking doesn't apply

[@Tomlamb980]

Thanks

[@missionDan]

tom, word to the wise, you got to stop using orange underground pipe above ground. its not uv resistant and the sun will quickly make it brittle, i notice you made the same error on the 40ft container shep hut too mate. worth considering 👌

[@markcranmer92]

My family all worked for eternit almost moved to Huntingdon as a kid when they relocated

[@br6768]

Its Tom Lamb!

[@anthonyjones2223]

Thank you enjoyed the video 👍

[@Lorddanielrushton371]

I believe you would have around 6,047,893 bowls.

[@GarrethandPipa]

I just think it is so odd in the differences in requirements. for a 160' building when I was a kid required 8 hugh(refrigerator sized) air circulators and 4' fans every 20'. The fans fired off whenever the temperature hit 85 Fahrenheit inside. I was told it was because of all the cotton gins burning down in the early 1900s. But what the heck do I know I just grew up in the panhandle of texas.

[@Braeden123698745]

200,000 kg of oats 50g per bowl, that's 4 million bowls. Apparently 1 in 2 Brits eat porridge for breakfast, so those that truck load could fill the bowls of 8% of porridge eaters for a day in the UK.

[@colindeloughery5996]

Interesting build Tom. Are sheds more common for grain storage in the UK than the steel silo type structure we use across the pond in Canada?

[@Tomlamb980]

Yes I don’t think steel silos are hardly used at all

[@staygreasy]

@@Tomlamb980Anyone know why?

[@user-br3ll4mb6e]

A flat floor grain store like Tom's can be used for anything and you only need a telehandler to load and unload it whereas with a steel silo you need dedicated mechanical handling equipment and the silo can only be used for grain.@@staygreasy

[@TrevorDennis100]

I didn't know you have engineering qualifications Tom. What training did you have? Did you train as an engineer purely to help your farming business, or have you worked on something other than the farm? I was the first eldest son in several generations not to go into farming. I started as a toolmaking apprentice, ending as a design engineer, but my dad valued the help I was able to give him on the farm. That was from simple welding jobs to machinery redesign.

[@Tomlamb980]

I do loads of other stuff than farming did 4 years engineering

[@laurencekoetsier]

How long can you store grain in your shed? And what are the considerations for let's say a silo or something?

[@trevorsidley7697]

Thanks for that Tom - did I miss something? (The Sssh it's a secret on the JCB boom)

[@Tomlamb980]

Colin’s video

[@Philipfenez]

New to the channel, Why don't you use hopper bins instead?

[@matthewwitcombe9563]

Please create some "Playlists" of your videos so I can watch one after the other - it'll increase your views.

[@cheechU38K]

Hey Tom, just wondering if you thought of building an underground water storage for flood water control?

[@Tomlamb980]

We don’t get flooding where we are so haven’t thought about it to be honest

[@cheechU38K]

@@Tomlamb980 so glad to hear that. I was just thinking about Colin Furze Secret Garage 🤓

[@Monkeysic]

You keeping seed stock out of your own crop means you don't grow hybrids? They are airlooms? I'm not a farmer but everyone around me is and they mostly use hybrid seeds corn, soy, oats, barley, and they can't use thier own seed stock for next year and alot of the seed companies don't allow them to keep seed stock.

[@gowithbazza]

So how many of those wheat go into 6 WeetabixBecause that's how many I have a breakfast every morning

[@bryangrimshaw5607]

how do you keep rodents out of the grain shed.

[@Tomlamb980]

Cats

[@TheWieggie]

so when do you build your bunker ..... ?

[@Tomlamb980]

Soon

[@tommurphy3544]

Who owns the claas combine and case tractors

[@PapaBradKnows]

Hey Tom, So in the shed that you built, did I miss on one of your videos why the walls only go up that high rather than any higher? Does it have something to do with maybe the moisture content or something or do those grains get crushed if there's any more weight on them?

[@Tomlamb980]

Don’t need them that high and it puts more stress on the steel frame

[@BricktheSystem]

What do you do for rodents? How much loss do you have to rodents?

[@HunterDFtwo]

Quick question, that DeLoran Furze keeps referring to as his, is it still yours?

[@Tomlamb980]

Bit of both

[@HunterDFtwo]

@@Tomlamb980 Thanks for answering my post, I appreciate that your not obligated to do so, just curious 🤔

[@123456BobJackson]

Hey Tom. How much money did you save building your grain store by doing the work yourself? Thanks

[@Tomlamb980]

Maybe 2/3s

[@123456BobJackson]

GREAT. Thanks

[@tdolan500]

Why are grain stores more much common in the U.K. than grain bins?

[@philleeson7835]

Multiple use building so can be used for other uses,ie machinery and equipment storage, workshop. Etc. single use buildings take up to much valuable ground space

[@Tomlamb980]

I don’t know anyone who has grain bins here

[@bjkjoseph]

How do you keep the rodents out? Do you have an army of cats?

[@Tomlamb980]

Cats

[@jakobrebeki]

Enough porridge to feed breakfast to the population of Scotland for 3 weeks and 2 days?....

[@sallac8243]

I think it's enough for around 80% of the Scottish population to have 1 bowl each - give or take - about 4 million.

[@phil6465]

How do you keep birds and vermin out of your grain store?

[@Tomlamb980]

The doors are all sealed

[@phil6465]

@@Tomlamb980 Did you fill in the profiles at the eaves?

[@mktoyolex]

Hello from Belarus! Do you grow potatoes?))

[@Tomlamb980]

No we don’t sorry

[@hillbillywisdom777]

I don't understand storing grain that way, why not use grain bins with auger bottoms ? Much cheaper and definitely easier to load out.

[@philleeson7835]

Not a suitable storage solution for the UK. The barns will get multiple uses through out the year,machinery and equipment stores, seed stores etc. a single use structure will take up too much valuable ground space.

[@IsmailNuzaifKokky]

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