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Farmington, Mo | I know this question has been asked before but responses were region specific. I'm in eastern Missouri and am wondering if there are any firms close to me who can and will disassemble and then reassemble a ribstone stave silo? Could probably get the silo for free so may be worth the trouble... |
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Cullom, Illinois | Google Hanson silo. They are in Minnesota but they have been in the business a long time. Maybe they can help you find someone to help you and may give you what costs are involved. |
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Stratford WI | Neigbor sold the place next tp me that has a nice 20x80 on it. Guy that bought the place wanted to move the silo to his home place. Even talking to Amish guys it was over 17000 and there will be a percentage of staves that are/will become cracked and unusable. 3 years later the silo is still here.
Edited by sammyd 9/11/2015 00:03
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Madison Co. Virginia | sammyd is correct. Unless this is an exceptional silo, there's probably quite a few cracked staves in there already, not to mention any damage that occurs during handling. |
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NW Central Ohio | ....push it over and forget it. There are lots of other ways to store feed that don't take the kind of investment you'll have moving a stave silo. Frankly...the staves might make a very nice area to lay silage bags on...or sell them to someone who wants to stabilize a ditch or stream bank. |
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Farmington, Mo | How much a new one say 16 x 60 would cost to build? |
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west central Iowa | We moved a barn this spring. Mover said they had moved a few stave silos. He said they were easy to move. They were big and solid. Silo a couple feet shorter when done is all.
We have silos and I wouldn't mind having another one |
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Callao Missouri | Lots of stave silos have popped up in Amish country around Clark Mo in the last couple years. Someone down there is doing it. Jon |
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Leesburg, Ohio | Local Amish community took our Ribstone brand silo down piece by piece in one day. Two weeks later it was standing a few miles away with corn silage in it. They move them all the time, some from several counties away.
Here, they only want Ribstone brand silos. Our deal was, they had to take two to get any. The other one was a not a Ribstone, so they just knocked it down with sledge hammers until it fell over, hired a contractor to come in and clean it up. Then they moved the Ribstone. |
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Northern New York | Not sure if you have any Amish communities near you but they will be your best bet. And it won't cost an arm and a leg either. They take them down and move them all the time around here. Sold one of mine several years ago. Two days of taking it down and clean up and you would never know it was ever there. Now it's standing on a farm 3 miles away. |
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Martinsburg,Mo | Le Roy Zimmerman moved one for us 20 years ago. I think he was from Versailles Mo. I do not have any contact info any more. He did good work for us. |
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Pine City, MN | Patriot81 - 9/11/2015 05:14
How much a new one say 16 x 60 would cost to build? . Um. No. Because no one builds upright silos anymore. Do something different. You have to be the worlds most stubborn person to want to build one. Bags piles bunkers all way way better. |
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Essig MN | Says you. Not everybody likes bunkers or bags better then silos. Silos still have there place. |
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Pine City, MN | Milford - 9/11/2015 20:37
Says you. Not everybody likes bunkers or bags better then silos. Silos still have there place.
If it's sitting in the yard and payed for its debatable to use. To spend money to built new or put up a used one is ridiculous. |
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western iowa,by Denison | I use to love silo's-best feed around-but the next generation-likes silage pits -plus the ease of filling-after Adam's bouts with constanly fighten corn dust -my silo's will be comin down-you can make really good piles (drive over)-personally after all the mistakes I have made fixin and keepin silo's in good repair-the best money was just havin a xtra big pad of concrete and packin -whatever you think of spending-which would be more then $10,000 -pour 10 loads of concrete-and see how you get along-you can always add on- I have a neighbor boy that came over with his Dads steiger and stayed on the pile along with the push tractor |
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Farmington, Mo | I appreciate the leads with the Amish men in my state! I am of the generation that "loves" bunkers...I personally do not. We have two ribstones that were built in the mid 50's by my grandfather and have been filled every year since their construction. I like them!
My uncles place has one and I'd like to have it is why I ask...city bought the ground and it will be an industrial park eventually. |
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