You guys are all aware that Bob & Phyllis Johnson have written a book on CORN CRIBS. IT'S physically not as big as their Corn Picker book. My corn picker book is an early single volume but BIG HEAVY book. The corn crib book is fairly compact. CRIBS were actually one of the earliest farm buildings built. The farm I grew up on had a pretty big crib. Dad only stored corn outside the crib one year in the 15 of the 20 years Dad farmed the place that I can remember. Crib held 8000 bushel of ear corn, had to stack it against the rood above the tops of the Caribbean exterior walls. We typically put 1200-1500 bushels of oats in the inside grain bins over the driveway, using 2 small bins. Crib had an inside Kewanee vertical elevator, in- the-floor drag to unload wagons into. Cupola above the peak of the roof over the elevator had a window we could have used an outside elevator but it would have had to be a long one, and would have sat in the only concrete hog feed floor. There were two utility rooms in the middle of the crib, one on each side, one had the BIG electric motor for the elevator, other had the auger to move ground earcorn to the cattle feeder next to the crib. South end of the driveway had a wooden covered weigh scale. I suspect it was to be used to weigh grain sold, or livestock being loaded out to sell or butcher. We never used it, in fact we stopped driving thru the crib about 1965 or '66 when we bought the BIG Electric Wheel 150 bushel flare box wagon, full load of ear corn would collapse the scale, I backed all the loads in from the north end. I'm not good at estimating capacity of CRIBS, but that crib was about the biggest of any other crib I saw in the area. It's still standing. Guy that farms our 80 lives there, I'm sure he'd let me snoop. Anyhow, the crib up on the first post is in really good unmaintained condition, I can see NO electric wires running to that crib, I'd be curious to know how high up the sides they fill it, it's not real long, I'd be surprised if it was 5000-6000 bushel, and probably no bins over the driveway. NEIGHBOR we traded help with had a small crib, roughly half the size of our's, with inside elevator but an above ground conveyor that swung out behind the wagon to dump into. I have a strong feeling Dad would have gladly traded that crib for a big grain bin and a bunch more concrete feed floors. The over-head space view I have shows the guys that farmed the place since we moved off 50 years ago have poured LOTS and LOTS of concrete, 100's of yards.
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