SE Manitoba | olivetroad - 8/8/2022 12:30
Thanks for all the good ideas. I widened it out to 45x150. That's about all the pocketbook could stand this year. I am pouring it on a knoll where I can extend it out another 200 feet, or add 30 feet to each side without any dirt work if my ship comes in.
I priced stand up bunker walls for the two 150 ft sides which would have given me a lot more storage. They were $40,000.00 for 300 linear feet delivered and set. I think I'd rather spend the money on a wider pad for now.
You know - - - your first step is a good first step.
What you could do for a second step would be to widen that pad from 45 to 75 feet (one side stretch) and add sides placed so there is some 50 ft on one side and 25 on the other.
The you could be piling up some 15 ' tall on the wide side or the narrow side.
(My plan would be to then as step 3 to widen the narrow side its 30 ft and then you have 50' on one side and 55' on the other.
Step 4 would be to put a wall on the outside of the narrow side.
Step 5 would be to a wall on the outside of the wide side.
You would then have two bunkers with say 12 to 15' walls and 150' long that would be two bunkers for about a minimum of 4000 tons of feed- - - that's the 12' walls and maybe more with ends past the 150'. )
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