Dan Loehr - 2/2/2017 16:22

Were laying tile --a bunch of brick was on top the ground-- brought up the discussion at lunch how were the first silo's filled?, and then we discussed how was corn (I guess)---or possibly some other crop--- chopped to get it ready to ensile. FWIW the brick in question should have been buried by my brother in 1978 but it is very hard to estimate how deep a hole needed to bury a bunch of brick and other rock when digging the hole with a CAT D4D---- WTF I'm sure he did better than I would do. That silo had to been built in the 1800's

FWIW some of the silo's we have buried were made of wood some brick and some white staves --Heck we weren't prejudice we burned and buried all of our ancestors stuff.

We were all guessing steam engine ---but how did they get the product chopped into little pieces and up into an upright silo -- at least 30' tall.

Not earth shattering to make any one $ --but I said NAT will come through

Love NAT Dan