Grandpa put up a concrete stave silo sometime in the 1930's - wasn't here, don't know the exact year. Have a photo of bundles of corn being fed into a chopper/blower powered by a belt drive from an old John Deere A - i think. The silo was the first of it's type in the neighborhood although the J C Marlowe Holstein farm just outside of Mankato had a silo built of some kind of glazed blocks probably built before 1920. In the big dairy areas, wood stave silos were built before that. Round barns sometimes had a silo in the middle that would have been easy to feed out of, but how they got the corn into it- don't know. Dad switched to a John Deere chopper in the 1950's -1 row. The blower was powered by the JD -G on a belt. In the late 50's a blower was purchased that was PTO driven it had a shaft that turned a moveable front on the wagon to unload the chopped corn- had to stand at the back with a fork to make sure it fell out evenly and didn't plug-up the blower pipe. I use an old Papec modern style blower and a Gehl chopper that's probably 40+ years old for the few acres chopped today.
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