Re: A O Smith Harvestore silo history

Posted by Bill(Wis) on July 29, 2023 at 08:01:20 from (67.86.36.109):

In Reply to: A O Smith Harvestore silo history posted by apranke on July 27, 2023 at 03:56:48:

In the days before tractors. Our first silo was erected in 1911. Well before tractors came into use. The powered equipment at our farm was powered by one cylinder
engines including a milking machine in 1914. Hinman from upstate New York. Steam engines were the big power of the day. Corn was cut either by hand with a corn knife
and then bundled and tied with a cornstalk or a binder was used which cost more money but went a good deal faster. A corn binder pulled by two horses was the
standard setup in my day. Although, there were plenty of corn knives around. I remember when, in 1951, a tornado went thru in September and blew down about 15 acres of
corn. Flattened it. That following weekend about 30 or 40 farmers showed up with their corn knives and cut all that corn in very little time. I drove over with a
flatbed wagon and joined others picking up the corn and driving up to the silo filler. We had a quite a lineup. Filled a 12 X 40 that day. So, after cutting and
bundling the corn it was either loaded on a flat bed wagon and hauled up to the silo filler or was shocked up in the field to be broken apart later and the husked ears
loaded on a wagon and hauled to the corn crib. The stalks were then hauled in and run thru a stalk cutter to be used for bedding. The silo fillers, many of them,
employed an elevator rather than a blower if powered by a stationary engine although blowers were used on some for shorter silos or bigger engines were used. A lot of
hard work. Those corn bundles were made up of wet corn and they were heavy. To get them up on a big load we used 3 tined pitchforks. Horses were all around. No mules, ever. Every farm
had them until right after World War II. (The Big One) when tractors anf fuel became more available. We needed three teams of big horses to keep our farm going until the first
Fordson showed up. Then we dropped to two teams. When the WC Allis Chalmers came on line in 1936 our need for horses dropped to one team. Then, in 1949, a new WD in
addition to the WC and no more horses. There went the oat market. (;>))

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