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Center of IL | When they first came out, they were a reasonable alternative to stave silos. If properly managed, bags, unloader,etc. They were an excellent way to handle silage. They used stainless bolts and were built to last. In the late 70's they started sealing them with a tape that didn't work properly and caused many problems. The early white roofs also were improperly designed and rusted out causing a huge repair. Around then the bagger came along and could be bought in the $10-20,000 range and could make unlimited bags. Expensive but cheaper than a $60,000 harvestore, with the harvestore being a little less labor intensive. The chains and repairs just put them out of sight cost wise and Harvestore did zilch to keep costs down. In the mid 80's, used harvestores started showing up and it was much cheaper to higher a nonharvestore dealer to do it. A friend of mine did this and claimed he had to raise his price as no one believed he could do a good job so cheap. The arrogant harvestore dealers bad mouth and threatened you if you used these nonharvestore people causing many owners to start buying much cheaper generic parts. Thus leading to Harvestores end. They still are going but don't sell much. They do make good swimming pools ! As far as grain storage, they are not designed for this and even with ventilation, have a lot of condensation moisture problems. Well, that's about it, probably more than you wanted to know. They really weren't a bad deal but priced themselves out of business.
Edited by Beef Cen IL 2/5/2008 08:40
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Why hasn't someone reinvented a use for Harvestores?
