Silo for Saturday

[Not db4600]

 

[Bob Bancroft]

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Do we think the facility which these silos served was between them and is now gone?

 

[oliverkid]

I do love harvestores. There’s at least one at almost every farm around here of one size or another. Now all the farms are dead and the livestock is gone.

 

[rrlund]

I do love harvestores. There’s at least one at almost every farm around here of one size or another. Now all the farms are dead and the livestock is gone.

There was one east of town that they took down with a torch. I wouldn't think that glass lined stuff would cut worth a darned.

 

[Rich'sToys]

My late father once referred to Harvestores as "Blue Tombstones".

We never put up corn sileage, just fed hay and ground ear corn to our cows.

 

[matthies]

There was one east of town that they took down with a torch. I wouldn't think that glass lined stuff would cut worth a darned.

It does cut worth a darn, but a plasma cutter doesn't stop it.

 

[Tgrasher]

I think it was one of the sales ploys to put the farmers initials or farm name on the silo. My old homestead being no exception.

 

[Not db4600]

I think it was one of the sales ploys to put the farmers initials or farm name on the silo. My old homestead being no exception.

In the case of the clay silo the initials stand for Adolph Casimir Ochs. He was the founder of Ochs brick in Springfield Mn. ACO produced brick and glazed clay tiles for building and silos and likely had a silo crew.

We just unearthed an old brick cistern in Redwood Falls.

 

[RBnWA]

My late father once referred to Harvestores as "Blue Tombstones".

We never put up corn sileage, just fed hay and ground ear corn to our cows.

Rich heard that from my dad many a time. RB

 

[SweetFeet]

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That ACO silo is a beauty!

Harvestores always remind me of my uncles - both had dairy farms in WI.