Silo for Saturday

[db4600]

A rare site today. This being more unique as the hoops
are laminate wood sections. This silo stands in western
Minnesota.

 

[Stroby]

Amazing

 

[Bob Bancroft]

I don't know how that ever held together. Dad's wooden stave silo had many many 5/8 inch steel rods around it. We pulled it over probably 55 years ago, and it didn't want to give up!

 

[db4600]

We pulled ours over in 75. It went to the neighbor for another 20 years. Ours was vertical 2x6 with 2 foot 2x6 TnG horizontal staves inside of the verticals which were wrapped by hoops. Have not seen another.

 

[chcase]

Neat.The silo helped to make another feed source for keeping the herd fed during the winter.

 

[Richard G.]

Never saw one like that.

 

[SweetFeet]

It's really neat. I have never seen one like that.

 

[jd2cyl]

I took one apart and then used the poplar staves to make trusses for a post and beam barn.

 

[oldsarge]

Ours was pulled down in '44 with my then new Ford 2N

 

[chcase]

In the 1970's helped a neighbor take their wooden stave silo down, it had two layers of 2x8 tng boards. We loosen the top 3 rings and bottom 2 rings and made sure that the roof was loose to the barn. It came down and no boards broke.

 

[Johnhof]

Hoping for more silo picts. Never had a silo on the farms but admired plenty in the neighborhood. Helped a neighbor take down his glazed block silo. Not sure why he wanted it down but it sure resisted us. Pulled out blocks on one side like felling a tree thinking would tip over. Suddenly collapsed into a heap and we luckily lived to tell the tale.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

We did one of them here. We were hitched high up on it to help it along. There were steel bands hidden in the hollows of the tiles. I don't remember what I did with them. Probably the scrap yard. The tiles, which busted up nicely, were used for fill for a barn site.

 

[paul]

My uncle had a short version of that as a water storage for the farm. Above ground cistern I guess, which is odd for our climate in Minnesota. Dad bought it at the auction and used the wood from it, as well as the rods to hold a building of ours together. I was a little kid really, I dont remember where the wood was used, but the building is still standing that the rods are holding the top from spreading.

Paul

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Anyone ever seen a silo INSIDE a barn? At an auction I went to a couple of years ago, there was a small silo in the barn, maybe 12' around and 20' tall with a couple of doors.

 

[db4600]

Ill get pictures

 

[Doug Wi]

Just think how proud the guy was when he had it built. When I look at older silos like that I wonder when was the last time it was filled.