Posted by coonie minnie on September 21, 2020 at 18:40:13 from (65.31.173.114):
In Reply to: Re: Old silo posted by flying belgian on September 21, 2020 at 18:29:33:
They were pitched out... but there is one across the street from my house with a pit deep enough they used an elevator to get the feed up to the level the cows were on.
The ones that had a center wall put in later require pitching the feed twice for some of it. There was not a good way to make another set of holes in a stone wall once built, so the the doors for the second silo were built into the center wall. You pitched the first silo empty, the started the second one, having to throw the feed into the first silo, then out to the feed room.
Round silos came along long before the silo unloader... the corners in a square silo never packed well, and were often moldy. There are round stone silos in the neighborhood, as well as tile ones, concrete block ones, wood stave, and of course concrete stave and poured concrete.
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