The old wood stave silo on our place blew down in the 1950 hurricane. I was only three at the time and don't really remember it. I do remember the snow fence silo that Dad put up on the foundation for a few years after. He quit milking in 1954, so '53 was probably the last time it was used.
I do remember him filling the silo with a chopper like that in the picture. He never owned a chopper, there was a man in town who went around every fall with a Farmall H and a chopper, filling silos. Dad only planted an acre or two of corn, and cut it all by hand. I remember him cutting a few bundles every night after chores so that the hired help would have something to load in the morning when they got there.
In the late eighties we had a hired man who told of filling a silo on his father's farm when he was young. One of his brothers was in the silo spreading the silage and treading it down, and this guy was feeding the chopper. He threw in a freshly killed woodchuck and his shirt, then ran and hid. When he finally came out of hiding, his father and brothers and the two state cops who came to investigate the "accident" took turns pounding the snot out of him. I never was sure whether to believe the story or not.
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