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North Central Kansas | Dad was still binding the feed cane we sometimes called sorghum back in the early fifties. Used a wheat binder with PTO but still required someone riding on the binder to raise and lower the header and reel.
Then the bundles either went to the silo for blower chopping or were put into shocks for winter feeding. I don't remember removing the twine for either method.
The blower pipe for the 40' high silo was assembled from sections while laying on the ground. A rope was then used with a windlass up on the side of the silo to pull the pipe by hand up into position with the gooseneck attached.
The pipe would occasionally plug when running the chopper/blower (Hesston brand) so someone had to straddle the pipe and lift it up off of the blower outlet. The blower outlet was simply sheet metal rolled to the round shape with the upper end left sharp that fit up into the pipe. I remember a story heard as a youngster about a gentleman who go a little too friendly with the blower pipe when setting it back on the sharp outlet while straddling it. Seems that the gentleman lost part of his appendage. Hurts to even think about it. | |
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How were the silo's filled days gone by?
