Camp Douglas Wi. 40miles nw of wi. dells | I guess I'm the lucky one here; Dad had cornchopper with false end gate wagons that had pipe in the back of the wagon with cables bolted to it that run to the front of wagon hooked to front end skid wall, hooked unloading jack to the pipe and the cable would wrap on the pipe and pull back the front skid, then I would stand behind the long hopper blower with silage fork feeding the chopped corn into the blower.
Then in the winter Dad and I forked it all out of the silo, 14'x40'.
When We got done fillin our silo, I got shipped down to Grampa,s (my Mothers folks) Grampa had the grain binder out and had the corn cut and bundled on the ground, Grandma drove the F12 pulling the wagon, Grampa and I loaded the corn bundles, then we headed up to the silo filler with the F20 on the belt, Grampa and I would feed the bundles into the silo filler; here,s the best part Grampa had to take the first bundle apart and feed it in slow until the governor opened up on the F20, than feed one bundle after the other rest of the load, Grampa got a big thrill out of that as that F20 was his biggest tractor at the time.
Some great times with my grandparents.
Dan
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How were the silo's filled days gone by?
