Posted by Jeff in ND on August 31, 2020 at 11:54:14 from (184.99.155.88):
In Reply to: silo filling stories? posted by swindave on August 30, 2020 at 16:12:28:
Grew up on the farm in the south end of Kandiyohi county in Minnesota...
This vintage picture shows silo filling in the early 40s.
Hard to see, but there is a 1936 Allis WC running the belt to a corn chopper. There is a team of 2 horses pulling a rack and someone is tossing a corn bundle in. Another person is at the top of the silo waving their arms. That WC is still on the farm.
These 2 are from about 1963 or so. These are stills from a 8mm home movie. 1956 MM UB Diesel on the chopper. I think its a New Holland.
That is maybe a Farmall "H" pulling the power wagon? Must be a neighbors.
In later years, there was a NH 717 chopper and the blower was a Allis Chalmers unit. It was still using a belt drive. Shared with the neighbors but my Dad was the last man standing so the chopper and blower ended up with him and was at his retirement auction. We used those power wagons till the end and hand forking the silage out (last fall was 1996). In the early 80s I remember helping with the wagons at one neighbors and got to drive his "H". They used a M on the blower belt.
I have some still photos of the 90s but not scanned in. We used the 1980 White 2-105 on the chopper in the 80s and 90s.
When Dad was about my age now (early-mid 50s) he would not go up the silo ladder to take up the rope. Said he got the "willies" Made me do it... We always took down the fill pipe (blower shared with neighbors) so someone had to climb the ladder with rope tied around their waist and feed it through the pulley up there. The pipes got pulled up with the rope tied on the tractor down below. I clearly remember standing on top of the "safety" ring at the top with one foot on that ring and one arm holding onto the steps on the dome with the rest of my body hanging in open air reaching out to grab the gooseneck and pull the pipe into the hatch on the roof.
Ooof! You could not pay me any amount of $$$$ to do that now!!!
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