Silo for Saturday

[Not db4600]

Bear with me I n this voyage…
On the home farm we had a wooden horizontal stave silo.
I noticed this wooden stave on a local auction site and it jogged memory of local history.

 

[Not db4600]

I recall Puffer-Hubbard from a vintage farm magazine advert, but derned if I remember which.

 

[oliverkid]

every structure on a farm used to be a functional work of art.

 

[Not db4600]

SP Wimmer was a BTO near the home before the turn of the century. Fittingly some of the land is still under plow and Central Livestock has a sizable yard there. This land is just south of my great grandpa’s grist flour mill site that was the first mill in town. It is just west of my other great grandpa’s homestead.

 

[Not db4600]

My dad’s father’s place was boarded by a clay quarry that made bricks for a short time. It’s a bit rugged and lended its geography to some moon shine stills. One neighbor, Zimmerman, cooked shine in the basement of the hog barn. The practice of cooked feed in those years offered smoke in a chimney year round that helped mask the still. The mash to the pigs, the stench covered the smell, the shine to the St John’s munks, and the feds none the wiser.
The Great Northern RR skirted north and local lore has it that there is a burried work engine at the trestle of Schwinghammer Lake.
Story goes that the fill for the abutment settled during the night and the work engine rolled off the open rail. Deemed easier to sacrifice it and bring up a replacement engine it was pushed in and built over. While 140 years ago I was able to interview some local elders whom confirmed the story in similar detailed fashion.

 

[Not db4600]

But I digress. Back to Puffer-Hubbard.

The name still exists today producing scientific freezers and coolers. Its history ties it to early Honeywell and heating controls. Earlier history has it as a diverse manufacturing juggernaut.

 

[Not db4600]

One piece I didn’t find vintage advertising for is a Model T jack shaft pulley system. A fellow collector has this Puffer-Hubbard piece he uses with his grandpa’s T.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

One piece I didn’t find vintage advertising for is a Model T jack shaft pulley system. A fellow collector has this Puffer-Hubbard piece he uses with his grandpa’s T.View attachment 148184View attachment 148185

How was the belt placed around the shaft?

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

How was the belt placed around the shaft?

One would probably use a spliced belt vs an endless. Would make that job easy enough.

Mike

 

[JOCCO]

Nice pictures/display

 

[Mark Poss]

Great pictures and information! I would love to have that salesman sample silo, what a great piece of history!! Thanks for posting every Saturday.

 

[SweetFeet]

One piece I didn’t find vintage advertising for is a Model T jack shaft pulley system. A fellow collector has this Puffer-Hubbard piece he uses with his grandpa’s T.View attachment 148184View attachment 148185

Interesting post and pics, db!

 

[wd9garymn]

My paternal grandfather had a silo exactly like that, not as large. About 15 ft dia. and 30 ft. tall and no roof. Haven't been back there for many years, but probably long gone. Farm was in Wright county along the North Fork of the Crow River, Gary.

 

[THinAl.]

Thanks for sharing. The old maps are interesting.