How agriculture works thread

[ArlyA]

Fremont Nebraska grain processing plant explosion. I've stayed in Fremont before.

 

[ArlyA]

Fremont Nebraska grain processing plant explosion. I've stayed in Fremont before.

3 are know to have died so far.

 

[LouNY]

Grain dust is very explosive, it is much less frequent then is used to be.

 

[ArlyA]

Neat video about silage, storage and its history.

 

[LHF2019]

Some of dad's slides of upgrading from a old tile silo to a poured silo. There are not many silo's that are completely poured. Most have a metal chute as I imagine was a cost savings then. I have been up metal chuted silo's and when they rust out snag you endlessly as you climb them. Not an issue with cement chutes. One of the cost savings grandpa did was no protective cage on the silo. Another thing we had I have never seen elsewhere was an electric distributor for filling. Most fill pipes have fins that distribute the silage as it fills where ours would rotate throwing the silage against the outer wall creating an inverted cone and fill the silo evenly.

 

[LHF2019]

The build

I'm sure dad was not impressed when he got the roll developed.

View from the silo.

And yes every year carried a 100 ft extension cord for the distributor. Silo was a 20x60

 

[LouNY]

Our old wooden silos had a flexible pipe at the end of the blower gooseneck that could be adjusted while filling. Once we went to the concrete stave silos they all had the electric rotating pans for distributors. Our wood stave silos had wooded chutes up the outside for access when unloading, the concrete stave silos had galvanized metal chutes for the silage to come down and people to access the silos. We also had/have the steel ladders up the outside to the top.

 

[LHF2019]

Our old wooden silos had a flexible pipe at the end of the blower gooseneck that could be adjusted while filling. Once we went to the concrete stave silos they all had the electric rotating pans for distributors. Our wood stave silos had wooded chutes up the outside for access when unloading, the concrete stave silos had galvanized metal chutes for the silage to come down and people to access the silos. We also had/have the steel ladders up the outside to the top.

Even our stave silo is a concrete chute. Maybe it was also how that particular company put them up. Or it was an option. To young to know. Lots of questions would love to ask my dad now that I'm older.

 

[ArlyA]

Most in the area we lived in were block style like these. The 2nd most common were the harvestor made steel ones.

 

[LHF2019]

There’s a few harvestore around here. Here’s a today view of the silos