transfer thick mash from pot to fermenter

[oak425F]

I recently moved from 5 gal pot to a 15.5 gal keggle. How do I move a thick mash (corn) from the pot to my 6 gal fermenters? The full keggle is too heavy for me to pick up and the mash won't move through a small beer-oriented pickup tube!

Big siphon?
Valve with a big dip tube?
Scoop?

How do you do it?

[bitter]

I use a diping scoope. mine is tupperware and has a handle holds about 2-3l per scoop.

Something like
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[Pesty]

I'd sparge it out into the fermenters. Top off the mash with water, give it a good stir and then start the recirc sparge, set the bed then fill the fermenters.

If you want to ferment on the grain.. weld on a drain

[oak425F]

How big would a drain need to be to move a corn mash? I found a couple posts about it but it was all just guessing. Anyone have experience moving corn through a drain / dip tube?

bitter, I like the scoop. As much as I want to engineer my way out of this, simple might be best.

[shadylane]

How big would a drain need to be to move a corn mash?

2 inch will work most of the time.

As much as I want to engineer my way out of this, simple might be best.

From my limited experience, that's probably the logical answer

[jedneck]

I cook my mash in the fermenters with steam injection and grind the grain to coarse flour. My fermenter has a 1 1/2 inch drain when it comes time to drain the fermented to charge the still I have had it plug if I forget to stir it up before draining. Corn and rye settle to form almost concrete. My boiler has a 1 inch drain and I have to wash some of the grain out with water at the end of the run.
I vote kiss (keep it stupid simple)