Tuesday tipper silo

[J Wendt]

B9

I've been watching this silo for almost 20 years. The interior wood staves are vertical and then wrapped in tar paper and horizontal boards with those metal plates on the splices. No metal bands, there are are metal straps holding the silo to fairly deep pit.

 

[38 Sears Roebuck]

That's an interesting one. Thanks for posting it.

 

[SweetFeet]

View attachment 92982View attachment 92982B9View attachment 92983View attachment 92983I've been watching this silo for almost 20 years. The interior wood staves are vertical and then wrapped in tar paper and horizontal boards with those metal plates on the splices. No metal bands, there are are metal straps holding the silo to fairly deep pit.

Oh, that is a neat one.
Cool you grabbed a pic of the rusty tag!

 

[Bob NY]

Looks l

View attachment 92982View attachment 92982B9View attachment 92983View attachment 92983I've been watching this silo for almost 20 years. The interior wood staves are vertical and then wrapped in tar paper and horizontal boards with those metal plates on the splices. No metal bands, there are are metal straps holding the silo to fairly deep pit.

Looks like it's doing the "Twist".

 

[Not db4600]

View attachment 92982View attachment 92982B9View attachment 92983View attachment 92983I've been watching this silo for almost 20 years. The interior wood staves are vertical and then wrapped in tar paper and horizontal boards with those metal plates on the splices. No metal bands, there are are metal straps holding the silo to fairly deep pit.

That is unique. Thank you for joining in the Silo scene. It’s an interesting assembly and I wonder if the layered assembly allowed them to not use a tongue and groove vertical board as was typical with the vertical board silos I knew of in central Minnesota. The wood silos I knew of were either Cedar or Redwood, but judging by the pictures this one is wrapped in tight grained Fir.

 

[J Wendt]

Don't know if I want go to the top to see if they are t&g. I was there three times this fall. I thought it looked cedar or redwood like the one we had, I just remember the old stave boards. One of my co-workers was so impressed by it he brought his daughter over and had grd pictures taken by it.

 

[Not db4600]

Don't know if I want go to the top to see if they are t&g. I was there three times this fall. I thought it looked cedar or redwood like the one we had, I just remember the old stave boards. One of my co-workers was so impressed by it he brought his daughter over and had grd pictures taken by it.

 

[Duey C]

Figured you might dig and sort it. Neat thread!

 

[used red MN]

Sweet Feet and others, his photo is of two of the rusty plates. Expanding on J’s description the plates are not necessarily ID tags but rather joining plates for the ends of boards wrapped horizontally stacked on top of each other. If you zoom in you can see the plates at all levels on the OD placed at the end joints of boards. I would also guess they chose to stamp the plates with the company name and patent dates not only for advertising but also to add some rigidity to what would otherwise be a flat fairly floppy pieces of tin. It also looks like the zero in the 30 of the second date from the bottom was pre-drilled to center the plate over the gap of the boards. I assume the wood had to be soaked or steamed to be bent around the curve.