Silo for Saturday

[Not db4600]

 

[Rich'sToys]

Wow! Nice pics! Looks like you've got every Saturday covered for the next month!

 

[Not db4600]

Wow! Nice pics! Looks like you've got every Saturday covered for the next month!

Cleaning out old pictures.

 

[Mcrafty1]

You've got a good collection, those are some great pictures of some well maintained farm buildings. Thanks for sharing.

 

[valleview]

Thanks for the pics. You have a great collection. The common denominator in virtually all of the photos is that the cattle that these silos fed are now all gone. The photos are a memorial to a changed American agricultural landscape. I look back on it fondly - young family, greater community involvement, less complicated tractors, many good points. But it was a lot of work.

 

[Mcrafty1]

Thanks for the pics. You have a great collection. The common denominator in virtually all of the photos is that the cattle that these silos fed are now all gone. The photos are a memorial to a changed American agricultural landscape. I look back on it fondly - young family, greater community involvement, less complicated tractors, many good points. But it was a lot of work.

I was not raised in a farming community but in the rural part of my state, I always think of the farmer when ever I come in contact with anything provided by a hard working farmer....which we all do EVERYDAY, I can only imagine to what extent hard work was involved, but I've no doubt it was much. I also think it must have been a good, personally rewarding life style, what else can you do in this world where you are at your job the second you step out the door in the morning, and if you pay attention you won't even have to leave farm other than an occasional trip to town for some essential you can't produce yourself. I realize I only see what I chose to about the lifestyle, but what I see is appealing. It's too bad more people can't get back into it and make a decent living. Who knows, maybe someday that'll change for the better.

 

[JOCCO]

Nice job DB I enjoy your silo pictures.

 

[tldnc]

Great pictures. Those pictures would make puzzles.

 

[Dennis K]

Any of them from Stearns County?

 

[stoughtonfarmboy]

I was not raised in a farming community but in the rural part of my state, I always think of the farmer when ever I come in contact with anything provided by a hard working farmer....which we all do EVERYDAY, I can only imagine to what extent hard work was involved, but I've no doubt it was much. I also think it must have been a good, personally rewarding life style, what else can you do in this world where you are at your job the second you step out the door in the morning, and if you pay attention you won't even have to leave farm other than an occasional trip to town for some essential you can't produce yourself. I realize I only see what I chose to about the lifestyle, but what I see is appealing. It's too bad more people can't get back into it and make a decent living. Who knows, maybe someday that'll change for the better.

I will be 76 in April. Grew up in rural Wisconsin. Worked on neighbor farms. Forked corn silage from a silo by hand, then they got a silo unloader. Still had to fork it into a silage cart and place it in the mangers in front of the cows. A few years later they got a bunk feeder for more automation. Probably why I weighed 130 lbs when I graduated from high school. But, we did eat good!

Ken

 

[Not db4600]

Any of them from Stearns County?

Most of these are in Wright. Maybe a sprinkle of McLeod.

 

[GeneMO]

Bet that was a bugger of a time getting that antenna tower up on the side of that one.

Gene

 

[Vito]

Bet that was a bugger of a time getting that antenna tower up on the side of that one.

Gene

I would say short work with a crane.

Vito