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Re: Demolish Silo Hints?
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Posted by Dan from PA on July 24, 2000 at 21:04:49 from (151.201.98.171):
In Reply to: Demolish Silo Hints? posted by Diesel Dan on July 24, 2000 at 19:42:38:
What size? How much lean? Concrete stave or poured? If it's a poured silo then you have a big (no pun intended) problem. Time for professional demolition.
If it's a stave silo, and you want to do it yourself, you can start at the top and remove the hoops and start dropping the staves one by one. If there's someone interested in your area, the staves and hoops can often be salvaged and re-used. A bed of sand to land them on can minimize breakage. Were you lucky enough to have to have the hurricane take off the roof for you? :) Once you get the staves removed to a little below silage level, you'll have to break out the pitchforks. Shouldn't be too hard to scoot the silage over the edge, even on a large silo. That is, if you have to remove any silage at all. It may just sit there in a pile as you remove the staves. Stay out from under it should it decide to collapse, though. Don't let it get too tall.
There may be someone in your area that specializes in erecting/removing silos. They'll have the scaffolding to make all of this safe. If it were me, though, I'd have the whole job done by professionals. I always hate having to go up the outside of those things. Of course, it doesn't help that I weigh about 280 and the ladder looks as if it was made out of pop cans! And I only have one finger to work with when I get up there because the other nine are wrapped around the ladder rung! Not that I'm afraid of heights, though. Nope, tall things don't bother me a bit. It's depths that give me trouble! :)
Stay safe!
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