Talk about a bin buster

centralilbaler · Oct 31, 2013

Local paper posted a picture of a concrete silo that failed near here .

rrlund · Oct 31, 2013

I hate it when that happens!

I've had ear corn out on the ground like that more than once.

paul · Oct 31, 2013

Wow, never heard of anything like that, odd for concrete to just make a hole.

Be inserting on where they go from here, would think that silo would not be approved to patch up, need to replace?

Paul

centralilbaler · Oct 31, 2013

I would almost bet it gets replaced. I 'll follow up.

caseyc · Oct 31, 2013

I've seen that before in New Prague MN at the wheat mill. Not a hole that big but cracks that were leaking.

Casey in SD

Mike M · Oct 31, 2013

I guess they don't even make good concrete anymore either. Those look fairly new.

Wheat Farmer · Oct 31, 2013

Most Elevators around here are a constant pour. Those look like they were poured in layers. They may even had a grain hot spot. Would like to know more.

ss55 · Oct 31, 2013

Concrete has great compression strength, but very little strength in tension. The rings of rebar going around the diameter of the silo should have held all the tension forces pushing out on the walls. Did a weld on a rebar joint fail or were the rings not proprerly spaced when the concrete was poured?

I don't see many large vertical rebars in tha picture, only large horizontal rings.

Thanks for posting! Please keep us posted on what caused the break.

kruser · Oct 31, 2013

Where at Baler Boy?

Jim

centralilbaler · Nov 1, 2013

Elkhart, IL

Traditional Farmer · Nov 1, 2013

Could have been an air pocket in the wall when it was poured or the concrete wasn't throughly mixed and some of the gravel or sand in the concrete was balled up and never was mixed with the cement.
Concrete companies will also send out some leftover cconcrete to something like a wall and if it was too hot it had already setup in a ball when poured and not really adhered to the rest of the mix.Whoever owns the silo needs to get a good concrete inspector on the job to look it over before doing anything.

Hay hay hay · Nov 1, 2013

A drone strike? Looks anti-farmer..... anti-red state? Any notes claiming responsibility?

Were the grain depot's phones tapped?

Did the Depot's website crash?

Just wondering.

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