Posted by Bruce from Can. on December 27, 2020 at 10:27:17 from (70.51.54.106):
In Reply to: harveststore silo ? posted by swindave on December 27, 2020 at 05:15:52:
I can think of about 20 of the blue monuments around me, and only one that I know is being used for high moisture corn , two have been converted into holding bins for a corn dryer, and the rest are empty and have been for many years. Too expensive to build, too expensive to maintain and way way too slow to unload for silage, not so bad for grain corn. They cost too much to build relative to the volume of silage they can hold. Very few stave silos are used anymore either. Unloaders are too expensive to dedicate one unloader to each silo. And when an unloader is getting old, they are junk. When the tractor that you are using to get silage from a bunk or a bag gets old, you can trade it on a new one. And the money tied up in an unloader will only unload silage, while the tractor that unloads a bunk or a bag, can move round bales, clean the snow from the driveway or run the genset if the powers out. Tower silos just don’t cut it as a wise use of dollars anymore. Before everyone had 4 Ed tractors with strong loaders and cabs, having a tower full of feed right beside the barn was a huge asset. Not so much anymore.
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