Silo for Saturday

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[Steve in VA]

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Stunningly nice.

 

[valleview]

Nice old barns and silos. Wonder how they got wagons up to the silos to fill them - maybe blower pipe at an angle??

 

[Not db4600]

Nice old barns and silos. Wonder how they got wagons up to the silos to fill them - maybe blower pipe at an angle??

That vintage would likely started with teams and wagons feeding shocks into a filler. Later long hopper blowers and end gate wagons. Whatever the last set up was I’d bet the boys could back a wagon.

 

[J Wendt]

That is sure a big set of barns. They must fed a lot of dry hay. Those are not very big silos for that much barn.

 

[JOCCO]

Nice and old windmill to the right.

 

[GermantownGreen]

Wowsers, that's a set-up. Think about forking all that hay!
Thanks for sharing. GG Wes

 

[INCase]

nice old barn. is it brick? kinda looks like it might be.

yeah those silos are kinda tucked in. could use conveyors to get from the wagon to the blower but even then it looks to be tight to get a tractor on the front of the blower on the one.

i imagine those valleys between the sloped to round roofs are probably fun to keep water tight.

 

[Texasmark]

That vintage would likely started with teams and wagons feeding shocks into a filler. Later long hopper blowers and end gate wagons. Whatever the last set up was I’d bet the boys could back a wagon.

If you are talking about a 4 wheel cotton type wagon, I'd say they had to be magicians if the wheel base of their driving machine was longer than the distance from the tip of the togue to the front axle of the wagon. I'm going to guess that they had a "loop" whereby they could drive alongside the silo, unload and drive off, all in one forward direction.

 

[caterpillar guy]

By the looks of where the blower pipe is I would say they drove in then backed out some to take off when empty. I know of a few around here that had to do that after putting on additions to things for cows back when. Most wagons would unload out the left side if front unloading and if rear unload then they had enough conveyor to just drive up and let conveyor down and back up only a couple feet.