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John In Ontario

Posted 10/31/2014 21:34 (#4154521)
Subject: Update on the cement block pit silo wall

Ripley, Ontario Canada

Finally got done with the corn silage. Some of you wanted an update.

My silo is about 26x60 and 8 foot walls. I chopped about 210 metric tonnes of corn, fed some before I was done, so would easily get 225 tonne in the silo. I do have it piled about 11 feet deep in the middle.

First 2 pictures are of my chopper and dump box, chopper is a nh892 with 2 row head, with an 8785 agco pulling it. Dump box is an old dodge truck made into a wagon with a 16 foot box. Took 140 mfwd to pull dump box in the mud, and it is worse now than when the pictures were taken.

Next 2 are piling with a bucket. Yes it can be done with a bucket. It is all I have ever used.

Then a couple of the blocks. End blocks were piled 4 high with the 2x2 side facing the silo. Blocks are 2x2x4 and weigh about a ton each. I had some posts behind them incase they moved but even where the silage was 11 feet deep they never moved.

Edited by John In Ontario 10/31/2014 21:46