Silo for Saturday

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[Mcrafty1]

Nice quaint looking establishment, not sure I ever have seen a barn roof with that type of covering, looks to be one piece or at least flat sheeting that overlaps away from the camera. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Nice quaint looking establishment, not sure I ever have seen a barn roof with that type of covering, looks to be one piece or at least flat sheeting that overlaps away from the camera. Thanks for sharing.

Someone deserves credit for taking care of the barn. It is a nice setting, but I wouldn't build right next to those silos. What do you do with old silos? There was a short tile silo here when I bought this place. It was in excellent condition. But I took it down before I started any other building work around here.

 

[Stroby]

Someone deserves credit for taking care of the barn. It is a nice setting, but I wouldn't build right next to those silos. What do you do with old silos? There was a short tile silo here when I bought this place. It was in excellent condition. But I took it down before I started any other building work around here.

I agree, the first thing I saw was a house really close to two silo's. Very pretty though.

 

[Mcrafty1]

Someone deserves credit for taking care of the barn. It is a nice setting, but I wouldn't build right next to those silos. What do you do with old silos? There was a short tile silo here when I bought this place. It was in excellent condition. But I took it down before I started any other building work around here.

I thought the same thing, but what I may have said about that wasn't going to change anything about the photo so I didn't bother.

 

[Mark Poss]

There appears to be an overlap in the sheeting just down from the light in the first picture

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

That's some serious lens compression. Looks like the house is backed up tight to the silo.

Wonder how the letters were done. They look raised or embossed.

Mike

 

[SweetFeet]

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Beautiful silos and barn.

However, I cannot imagine having my house so close to the barn... back in the day, the flies must have been thick as fleas on an ol' hound dog!!

 

[Not db4600]

Beautiful silos and barn.

However, I cannot imagine having my house so close to the barn... back in the day, the flies must have been thick as fleas on an ol' hound dog!!

 

[Not db4600]

 

[Not db4600]

That's some serious lens compression. Looks like the house is backed up tight to the silo.

Wonder how the letters were done. They look raised or embossed.

Mike

2 years ago this week I included an ACO. I believe my first. This one resides in Kandiyohi Co.

 

[SweetFeet]

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Ahhh, that gives me a different perspective.

 

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[Mcrafty1]

There appears to be an overlap in the sheeting just down from the light in the first picture

Possibly, but it is for sure not your average roofing.

 

[Mcrafty1]

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Some weird camera stuff happening here, in the first two pictures it also looks like there are three silos, two brick, and the other concrete slabs.

 

[Jim.ME]

There is an eclosed access on the backside of the brick silo, make it look like there is a third one behind it.

 

[Mcrafty1]

There is an eclosed access on the backside of the brick silo, make it look like there is a third one behind it.

Looking at it with that perspective I believe you're correct.

 

[SkipperII]

Some weird camera stuff happening here, in the first two pictures it also looks like there are three silos, two brick, and the other concrete slabs.

In the overhead view, there is an addition on the side, for dropping silage down, I would surmise. I think in the side view, it gives the illusion of a third silo.

 

[Weldon K]

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I made lots of photos of farmsteads with silos when we traveled in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Here is a farmstead in Minnesota just up the road from where my wife's brother lives in Minnesota. It is odd that the one silo has all those black and white staves. Perhaps more was added to height 4 times over the years. Next time we go there , I'll stop at the farm and ask the owners about that silo.

 

[SweetFeet]

In the overhead view, there is an addition on the side, for dropping silage down, I would surmise. I think in the side view, it gives the illusion of a third silo.

I think you are right, Skipper. Looks like the tile silo has a tube/chute (also made of tile), on the outside.
When I was a kid, our concrete block silo, had a metal tube on the outside.