Silo for Saturday

[db4600]

Sister Silos. Adolphus Casmir Ochs was a silo builder out of Chaska. He was also known for involvement in bricks being involved in as many as 7 different brickyards along the Minnesota River. Of those yards from archaic cut and fire methods to later state of the art were supplied many brick to well known buildings across the Midwest as well as a plethora of houses barns and silos

 

[Stroby]

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

 

[muleman51]

Are there any of the old factory ruins around, I find those kind of sites most interesting, makes for a great road trip.

 

[Mike Groom]

I built silo's in the summer of 1966 for Ribstone silo out of Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, Madison Silo always put the checkerboard pattern at the top of their silo's I always thought they looked a little better than the one's we built, but the Ribstone was a stronger silo in my opinion. Of course I was only 17 at the time so what did I know. Uncle Sam made me smarter that fall on my senior trip.

 

[willie in mn]

Where are you located, happen to be close to Springfield Mn? Hauled a lot of LTL freight into & out of A.C. Ochs Brick & Tile there in my time. However, sadly to say, not listed in 2011 phone book. Was located on south side of highway 14 at east side of Springfield.
Kow Farmer & Paul are located withing 35-40 miles of there. Maybe they know more. Even Flying Belgian is only about an hour drive away. Wish I had more current information.

Willie

 

[db4600]

We had a Madison and a new Hanson. The Madison had grey staves and white checkerboard crown. There are many of these white w/ black checkerboard in central Rocks and Cows. Do you by chance know the brand name?

 

[db4600]

There is a YouTube site by the title MinnesotaBricks. Well done. Very informative, historical.

 

[Kow Farmer]

Ochs brick company is still in Springfield in the same location.
Kow Farmer