When I was a high school junior Dad was still picking ear corn. With increasing yields another corn crib was needed. We drove the pickup probably three hours one way to Charles City where the Walsh Company made wire corn cribs. A very good foundation/floor was formed and poured with a sheller drag down the middle. To build the crib the first wire ring was attached around the edge of the foundation. As I remember there were U bolts in the concrete that a J bolt hooked into which held the first wire ring. This first, second, and third wire rings were probably somewhere around 6' tall. Next the first ring was filled with ear corn of course using an elevator. You had to make sure the elevator dropped the corn into the center so the first ring formed a true circle. Next a couple guys stood on the ear corn and attached the second wire ring. As with the first ring long rods were pushed through the interwoven wires joining the sections. Again this ring was filled with ear corn and once again the 3rd ring was added with guys on the inside and outside. The roof was constructed like a grain bin but was done standing inside on the corn and working from an extension ladder on the outside. Dad went to a picker sheller with steel grain bins shortly after this crib was built. The crib was sold to someone who was still picking ear corn. Probably 15 years later I had an excavator come and break up the concrete.
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