Re: OT - Harvestore Silos

Posted by coonie minnie on October 14, 2016 at 06:08:59 from (50.105.201.126):

In Reply to: OT - Harvestore Silos posted by Bill VA on October 14, 2016 at 05:10:30:

There were advantages and disadvantages of each kind.

First, yes, there were wooden stave silos, as well as stone silos. Back in the day, those were quite common. In my neighborhood, there were quite a few stone, square silos- these were some of the earliest in WI> Poured concrete and concrete stave came next. Harvestore came on the scene after WWII, and offered the sealed approach- which worked, provided nothing got a leak. Leaky harvestores are common though, usually resulting in a lot of spoiled feed.

Concrete silos were never really replaced by harvestores- in fact there are still a few built today. Unloaders for concrete silos came on the scene in the 1950s- and while they unloaded from the top, which required climbing, you could fix the unloader a lot easier. Concrete silos also allowed farmers to put feed in wetter than a Harvestore, which can mean better quality especially if it means beating a rainstorm on some hay. Wetter corn silage is also more digestible. If feed was put in a Harvestore too wet, it could freeze to the sides, and with a harvestore the feed has to keep sliding down to the unloader. If the feed froze on one side, it usually meant the silo got lopsided, and often collapsed.

Today more feed is put in bags or bunker silos. The main driving force behind that is faster filling, and less capital cost. Often times though, feed quality is less than with upright silos.

Hope this helps.

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