Posted by NY 986 on April 13, 2013 at 07:14:39 from (67.142.178.24):
In Reply to: Re: harvestore silos posted by JD Seller on April 13, 2013 at 06:49:44:
Back when they were the rage in the 1970's I recall a thousand dollars per vertical foot as the price when new. I knew of one that was 90 feet tall and cost the owner 90,000 dollars. When he sold out roughly fifteen years later the silo brought 5000 dollars at his auction. One variable on cost is the concrete required for the base. I've heard where that (extreme amount needed) pushed the cost to nearly 1200 dollars per vertical foot. I wish I could remember the cost per gallon stored on the SlurryStore units for this discussion. A lot of those went up in this area, too. You have made some excellent points on the maintenance including a couple I never heard discussed before. No doubt what you mentioned contributed to the demise of a lot of operations but I would still list too easy financing to get and not leave any wiggle room for bad times as reason number one.
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