Best Way 2 Dismantle a Wire Corn Crib

[zzvyb6]

I've bought a used 12' round x 16' high wire corn crib a few miles from my farm. I want it to make into a screened gazebo, protected garden bird cage, problem child detention center, dog house, man cave or hot tub silo, not huzactly sure yet.

Its bolted together sections of rounded hog panels with a steel sectioned roof. Rather than climbing all over it to removed bolts and falling off in the process, its been suggested that I slowly tip it over and dismantle in while its down on its side. I'd use a stake in the ground to hold a block & tackle and use a long rope on my truck to gradually ease it down while I let out the tackle rope. A battery powered impact wrench with a lot of batteries ought to make the disassembly go fast.

I used my tracktor bucket loader to raise up a windmill tower in the same manner, but I won't have a tractor on site for this one.

Any warning shots for advice? The reverse process would make sense to put it back up when the time comes... I'm all ears.

 

[WAB85]

I bought a wire corn crib at a farm auction a few years back and moved it. It has panels bolted together "vertically", not in rings like a grain bin. It has a metal roof with a removable cap at the top center. I could go and measure it, but I'm sure it is more than 12 ft diameter.
We took it apart to move it approx 6 miles. I would not try to lay it on it's side because it could fold up like a cheap shirt and damage the roof and possibly the sides also.
We found a guy with a boom truck like tree trimmers and utility companies use. Working on a ladder we removed most of the bolts first. Then we dropped a rope from the boom truck thru the hole in the top of the roof. We attached a tire "larger than the roof hole" to the rope and after removing a few remaining bolts the truck lifted the roof off in one piece. It was kind of wimpy but held together while we sat it on the ground.
We then removed the remaining bolts in the side panels and layed them down one at a time.
We stacked the side panels on a hay wagon. Then with 5 or 6 guys we picked up the roof and placed it on top of the panels on the wagon. The roof makes a "wide load" but we took our time and traveled county roads to bring it home.
I'm sure there will be other suggestions -- that's how we did it.
Hope this helps.
KW