western WI | kipps - 11/5/2019 19:32
I've heard some stories of filling older silos here. Evidently the doors didn't seal very well. A roll of roofing paper(tar paper) was unrolled vertically over the doors on the inside. The man inside packing silage would installing doors and unrolling the paper as the silo filled. The man inside was guiding a flexible chute around the silo for proper silage distribution. It was made of conical aluminum chutes, each about a foot in diameter and 3 feet long, and hooked on each other to form a continuous suspended chute.
How common was this method of filling silo, of having somebody packing and distributing the whole time? Was that just a "here" thing?
I did put tar paper all around the base where the wood meets the concrete, but not up and down the doors. There will be some spoilage around the doors, but am not too concerned when you see some of these farms piles and the plastic blows off and there is 2-3 feet of rotten crap. |
85 year old wood stave silo filling
