Silo for Saturday

[db4600]

 

[db4600]

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Again South Todd.

 

[db4600]

Again South Todd.

Maybe akin to this mate in NE Pope previously shared.

 

[bradley martin]

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Built when labor was cheap!

 

[SweetFeet]

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Beautiful old silo.

 

[Stroby]

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Dandy

 

[38 Sears Roebuck]

Nice one

 

[Tgrasher]

You often see silos being the last vestige of a farm, still standing proud of a once thriving endeavor. I have seen ones with houses still occupied but the barns all gone. There ought to be a usage for them, to me an observation deck on top where one could view the wildlife or just the world, while sipping my morning coffee.

 

[bradley martin]

You often see silos being the last vestige of a farm, still standing proud of a once thriving endeavor. I have seen ones with houses still occupied but the barns all gone. There ought to be a usage for them, to me an observation deck on top where one could view the wildlife or just the world, while sipping my morning coffee.

Are you prepared to climb up and down, carrying your coffee? Or are you going to spend the $$$ for an elevator?

 

[plattman]

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Fine looking brick work. Look forward to Saturday silos. I wonder how these laid up silos resist bursting pressures. I dont see any hoop reinforcements.

 

[Tgrasher]

Are you prepared to climb up and down, carrying your coffee? Or are you going to spend the $$$ for an elevator?

An inside spiral stair case, might need to keep an oxygen tank at the top. lol

 

[Stroby]

Built when labor was cheap!

but exceptionally good.

 

[abuelo]

Grab bars on the roof? No , no you go first.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Fine looking brick work. Look forward to Saturday silos. I wonder how these laid up silos resist bursting pressures. I dont see any hoop reinforcements.

Tile in silos here had spaces in them where steel bands were run. In old silos falling apart, those steel bands are rotted to mostly rust. What is a mystery to me is how the brick silos were held together.

 

[730 virgil]

do you ever find a wooden silo there used to be some around here?

 

[Rich'sToys]

do you ever find a wooden silo there used to be some around here?

Here's one. Located at Farmamerica, the Mn Ag. Interpretive Center.

 

[db4600]

Here's one. Located at Farmamerica, the Mn Ag. Interpretive Center. View attachment 91345

That one is a gem!

 

[db4600]

do you ever find a wooden silo there used to be some around here?

Not many. Unlike the concrete ones they succumb to the elements.

The last one I knew of in the home place area left 12 years ago. That was a vertical cedar plank.
The one on the home farm got tipped over in ‘77. That was a Redwood T&G stave stacked horizontally in front of 2x4 uprights.

 

[Scott(Ks.)]

Several years ago a local contractor was clearing an old farmstead. There was a block silo that was needing to come down. They were wary about trying to take it down with a crawler. They called a building demolishing company to give them a price to put it on the ground. He said a hundred dollars. He showed up in his car, got a sledge hammer out of the trunk and knocked out a few bottom blocks. less than ten minutes. dropped it like a tree.

 

[db4600]

Several years ago a local contractor was clearing an old farmstead. There was a block silo that was needing to come down. They were wary about trying to take it down with a crawler. They called a building demolishing company to give them a price to put it on the ground. He said a hundred dollars. He showed up in his car, got a sledge hammer out of the trunk and knocked out a few bottom blocks. less than ten minutes. dropped it like a tree.

I was but a lad when the wood stave was felled. The neighbors 4020 was employed versus our 770 Oliver. Everything on the yard was moved as dad was fearful of it rolling. This silo had 6’ of concrete foundation under it as it was a bank barn so the wood structure on the concrete tub was maybe 20-25’. The silo was scaled and a cable attached to the rod hoops outside the uprights. The 4020 was engaged and but a minute later the dust cleared exposing a pile of wood stave and 4x4 that more heaped than rolled.