Silo for Saturday

[db4600]

Always well kept in the neighborhood

 

[redforlife]

Barn looks alot closer to the highway in the angle of the lower picture, than it does in the angle of the upper picture.

This is surely two photos of the same barn. If not, they must be identical. LOL.

 

[caterpillar guy]

With a cement roof on it. Would be a pain to form up at even that height in those days. Nice looking place though. To bad it is now setting empty instead of full of milk cows like it was built for.

 

[fastfarmall]

We put up silage, but never had a silo,but our neighbor had one, a little higher than that one, but just wander was the convience of having feed that close to the barn really worth it, it would freeze on the walls, then threw down the chute, then pick it up with a wheelbarrow and carry to the front of the stanchions, and he did that for 30 years! He was happy with it, i guess!

 

[Geo-TH,In]

I'm impressed with the curved metal on the barn roof. Thanks for the nice pic.

 

[db4600]

Builders in those days understood their scaffold and with height on any structure they were prepared to build scaffold for the task. There is some pictures explaining the process of building the brick arch of the domed roof and then covering it with cement rich mortar for the cap at Minnesota bricks on YouTube.

 

[coonie minnie]

My grandfather's brothers built some pored concrete silos in the 40's, and did I few roofs like that. The forming etc was one thing, the hauling the concrete up in a bucket even worse. I still have the steel bucket here, It's heavy enough empty, let alone full of concrete. I think they slept well at night!

 

[JMOR]

Pretty scene, but this one, near Coupland TX, seems to be returning to nature.