100 miles north of the NYC crapper | I remember us having a papec cutter blower. Don't remember using it for silo filling but my father and grandfather use it for to process old hay or straw into bedding. It was always called "the bedding blower"
My earlies memories of filling silo about 1959-60 is a pull type chopper chopping into wagons with 2 cables along the floor that when hooked up to a electric motor transmission that pulled the front gate of the wagon towards the back and the silage had to be pulled down with forks acting like beaters on a modern forage wagon. Had a long table blower powered by a Farmall H which by the way still sets in the shed. We had a wooden silo too that I only remember filling it once because it was in bad shape leaning. It had two cables keeping it from falling on the barn. Pulled it over and used the wooden staves on various building projects.... still some can be found here and there. That lumber has to be 70-80 years old.
Edited by nyjim 2/2/2017 18:12
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How were the silo's filled days gone by?
