One answer needed. How long in how many years are you planning on using it? 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 25 years or more? Have no Idea your age as to how long you might want to be doing it. Then again how long will you be able to have a corn picker for ear corn? If you can be assured that you would be using it for long enough to pay then go with the concrete floor. Otherwise make a wood floor as if in ten years you are no longer able to pick the corn due to either not being able to have a picker or your age then think about having that big block of concrete removed and the problems involved. Find a corn drag someplace even if you have to drive 300 mile to get it, to save your back it is well worth it. I have both back and heart problems so I know what they are. Make the floor so you can just slide the drag in under the opening with the opening in the floor 3" narrower on each side so ears cannot fall out of the sides of the drag when you lift individual boards up to let all the corn roll by itself that you can. Opening for corn to drop in drag needs to be 6" narrower than drag. Most concrete crib floors were not made like this then you could not get the drag out if a chain broke to repair it and then get it back in. Then it would be easy to just use a rake to roll most of the corn down to the drag. You would set the drag once and leave it. You should consider instead of a 14' crib 2 smaller ones as even with a vent tube up the middle you will have spoiled corn in the middle as you will never get it dry enough picking to keep and with that thick of stack of corn it will not let the air move thru to keep the corn from spoiling. AS for something to set it up on just use concrete blocks. I have 2 cribs set up like that but have not been used for years as no longer farming. One is 10' perferated metal and the other is a 12" wire crib. The problem is over the years and ground getting soft the blocks have started to roll over and fall out .They were just layed 2 side by side and stacked one on top of anouther. What was not avaible but is now from Menards, possible other places are formed concrete blocks either 2 or 2 1/2' square and 2-2 1/2" thick that put down first would have given a more stable base to make a concrete block pier on top of. Also grade a good solid firm level base to set crib on, I did not have that. Also use those type of blocks for a floor under the drag so it is not setting directly on the ground to rust out and also for more ease of removing and putting back the drag if needed to be. I have never been to NY but I am sure that you do not have the best corn dry down in the field so 2 10' cribs would be a lot better than a 14' crib just due to the weather. And then if you did not completely enpty it before harvest you would have to put wet corn on top of the dry corn and that is not good for 2 reasons. the rodents mentioned will make a complete mess in the old corn and spoil it but with the taper of the pile putting new corn on top it would be putting a lot of sideways pressure on the crib from not being able to fill it evenly. I am in western Ohio and I do have a decent drag I would like to get rid of cheap, also would like to get rid of the cribs. There are a lot of concrete crib, bin, silo, bases around that things have been removed from but should be remover also but how to remove that big solid chunk of cement, that would be a big expence. That is why no new silos have been put up in the last 20 years, all just use the bags as if and when most dairies quit with operator in 50's they just don't want the things any more. Much more to think about than you are because of the future. The newest pickers out there are what 30 years old now so how long will you even be able to pick ear corn unless you plan on shucking it by hand and you could not do it fast enough to do the feeding. Know it is discouriging to think about but you need to think thru all of these factors. In Ohio the corn would not keep in that size crib. You could also make your own blocks the 2.5' square and later use them for a sidewalk if no longer having the crib. Long but think thru all I have said before starting.
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