I'm with you on the silage. We had a 12x36 poured concrete silo and Yours Truly was the "automatic silo unloader". Dad said "go up and pitch down 5 bushels for the steers, and I'd automatically climb up and grab the fork if I knew what was good for me, and I did. Had wooden "doors" about 18" high and as the level dropped you'd have to pound those doors loose and take 'em out. Loved that smell.
I liked the smells and activity involved in filling it too. Dad hired it done and the last time I remember doing it the guy came over with a brand new JD 720 Diesel. Biggest dang tractor I'd ever seen! We'd put our Super W6 on the blower and haul the self-unloading wagons with either our JD-B or the neighbor/tenant's JD-A. If ya got a little too ambitious with the unloader, that ol' W6 would beller!
I could live without the smell of "opening" the silo tho. Those first couple of feet were pretty nasty.
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