a short vid of a fun job

[Willycoyote]

this is what i do for work. im the guy in the excator pushing from the back boss was in the other pulling on the cable. was half full of 25 yr old silage.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v303/ ... ilo011.flv

[Lavoy]

My Uncle had 4 or 5 of those glass silos. When he had them built in the 70's and 80's, they cost rougly $1000 per vertical foot. Now they are basically valueless, at least in my area.
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[Willycoyote]

this one was all steel with a big flexible liner from top to bottom.the steel plates were still like new

[Lavoy]

I should have qualified that. They called them "glass" silos due to the coating on the steel. The thing you were calling the liner might have been the airbag. They would seal them up airtight so you could put high moisture corn or silage in them, and it would not start to heat and spontaneously combust. The airbag was for the expansion and contraction of the air as the outside air temp changed.
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[1949JDMC]

If I had to do that I would have put a choker around the top or it then ran a cabel through a pully and pulled it with my crawler

[Willycoyote]

we had a choker but couldnt go to high as the steel at the top of these silos is extremely thin and we had a komatsu 220 pulling and thats wasnt enough we snapped the 3/4 inch cable lol took the two machines to get her down . it was half full of 25 yr old frozen silage

[stmftr395]

While watching the video I was able to determine that it had silage in it. Went over way to hard for an empty one. Saw one that the unloader had been removing product from only one side. Not good. the weight above(as they unload from the bottom) supported on one side with silage and not on the other caused the unsupported side to collapse. Worst of all it fell into another silo!

[Lavoy]

It was a stave silo, not a glass one, but 15 years ago or so, we shot one down at a guys place. 6-M1A's and a little over 500 rounds and down it came.
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[Willycoyote]

this was 90 foot tall and like 18 foot across. steel plates near the top were just a tad under 1/8 inch. the bottom plates were almost 3/8 inch. being half full mads things a bit more interestin. the barn beside it went down in under and hr lol.

[Ray III]

Why do people dislike these things so much now? Is it because of the bottom unloader?

My uncle has 2 that he doesn't like to use either. Thinking about filling them with grain corn someday, then all it has to do is flow out the bottom. Is there anything you need to worry about filling a 70 footer with shelled corn? (The other one is a short one.)

[Willycoyote]

this one would only feed 40 cows and the new owner had over 100 head and is building a brand new state of the art barn for milking. lots of these silo's in use here but would of cost about 70,000cdn to replace the unloader and the liner wasnt economical.

[Lavoy]

We blew lots bushels of shelled corn into my uncle's, not a problem.
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