Silo for Saturday

[db4600]

The twins peaked out with the clearing of trees for road maintenance last Saturday.

For the better part of 3 decades these hid behind their spruce sanctuary and are now bare as a J-bird.

 

[RBnWA]

The twins peaked out with the clearing of trees for road maintenance last Saturday.View attachment 5139View attachment 5138View attachment 5137For the better part of 3 decades these hid behind their spruce sanctuary and are now bare as a J-bird.

That barn won't be standing to many more years. Crying shame. RB

 

[Geo-TH,In]

That barn won't be standing to many more years. Crying shame. RB

Yes it is a crying shame.
Have you priced a roof replacement lately?

 

[Mark Poss]

Would have loved to see that farm when it was in its prime!!

 

[SweetFeet]

The twins peaked out with the clearing of trees for road maintenance last Saturday.View attachment 5139View attachment 5138View attachment 5137For the better part of 3 decades these hid behind their spruce sanctuary and are now bare as a J-bird.

Great pics! Too bad the trees had to be removed.

Would love to see that cupola as yardart.

 

[Timmycornpicker]

Looking at this got me thinking. Around here, most older silos seemed to be narrower and tall, with a few shorter, wider ones. Did one have an advantage over the other? The few newer silos are big all the way around.

 

[jwal10]

Silo's were built to how many inches you fed each day. You needed to use a certain amount to keep the silage from spoiling. Dad had a Mt. Hood concrete stave silo built in the late 50's. There was a formula for how much needed fed each day. Seems Dad said somewhere around 6". Dad was very particular about you skimming the top, not digging down into the packed silage. Many dairies used silo unloaders, they did a great job of just skimming the top....James

 

[oldsarge]

Silo's were built to how many inches you fed each day. You needed to use a certain amount to keep the silage from spoiling. Dad had a Mt. Hood concrete stave silo built in the late 50's. There was a formula for how much needed fed each day. Seems Dad said somewhere around 6". Dad was very particular about you skimming the top, not digging down into the packed silage. Many dairies used silo unloaders, they did a great job of just skimming the top....James

Yeah, when they weren't froze !!!!!!!

 

[db4600]

Yeah, when they weren't froze !!!!!!!

Exactly. I’m old enough to have fed out of a wood silo by hand and recall the silage iceberg on the north wall. Along about March it might fall off. Pa wasn’t keen on trying to clean down to the wood staves because of the abuse inflicted. There was the electric silage chipper that got pulled up to grind enough loose to feed each day. After the new silo was built we had both a Hanson and Van Dale unloader. Memory tells me that we adjusted the flights to run closer in winter to skim that frozen crust off the staves.