silo collapses onto barn

farmerjohn · Oct 15, 2009

Heard about this on the news a few days ago. Glad no one was killed.
http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/1554214.html

Formerly PaMike · Oct 15, 2009

Thats only 2 hours from me...
Another nice old barn is done for...what a shame.

Matt from CT · Oct 15, 2009

What kind of silo is that?

The staves look much smaller then concrete stave silos around me, but it doesn't look like tile either, and it's not poured concrete.

Almost looks like very small concrete staves? Or is it wood?

fixerupper · Oct 15, 2009

Maybe the ground gave way under one side of the silo. A full silo is pretty hard to blow over. If the wind was strong enough to blow it over everything around it would be blown away. Jim

Zachary Hoyt · Oct 15, 2009

That looks to me like a ribstone (concrete) silo, you can see how the staves have pulled apart but the rings are still in place. We have a smaller one here but do not use it, and the Amish will be taking it down next year. I didn't think 200 years ago they used trusses like that in barns, but I don't know much about it.
Zach

Lamar Fudd · Oct 15, 2009

Truly glad no one was injured in that. I looked over the news article and couldn't find a location. Where is that, England?. The spelling of "centre" was my only clue.

Uncle Ernie · Oct 15, 2009

Pennsylvania.

g mccool · Oct 15, 2009

That is really to bad. When they are gone they are gone forever. Gerald

RodinNS · Oct 15, 2009

Looks to me like it either leaned/shifted or more likely one or two of the tie rods snapped due to pressure... followed by a chain reaction.
Doubt the weather had anything to do with it.

Rod

farmerjohn · Oct 15, 2009

Center county, PA near State College

farmerjohn · Oct 15, 2009

The trusses were in a modern addition. This is an aerial view before the collapse.
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=qssxcj8hckbc&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=40223478&encType=1

Anonymous-0 · Oct 15, 2009

74 Tornado gave a 2/3rds full silo shear off at the silage mark ..

blinwmiaol.com · Oct 16, 2009

No it isn't a ribstone silo, it is a C and B silo, the staves are not small, they are 93 pounds of solid concrete a piece. The staves do not have any rerod in them so they are quite thick and the C and B silos go over board with hoops to give it structural strength. To be 80 foot tall it would have to be a 24 footer. If someone got away with putting up a 20x 80 that might help to explain why itfell.

BUDD · Oct 16, 2009

jheitkemper

Where was the silo that was toped off by tornato in 74 you are talking about?

Budd

Billy NY · Oct 16, 2009

That barn could be saved, looks like only one end needs to be rebuilt, peak of the roof appears to be pretty straight, so there will be some new materials on one end, at least the whole thing was not flattened, sure looks like it was well kept though.

Uncle Ernie · Oct 16, 2009

It might just be the angle of the picture but the silo looks out of plumb even here.Looks like it is leaning slightly towards the barn.

Lamar Fudd · Oct 16, 2009

Thanks.

RodinNS · Oct 16, 2009

I can believe that... but I dare say this collapsed from the bottom.

Rod

Bill in IL · Oct 16, 2009

I seen 3 stave silos blown over like you describe about 10 years ago. One was half full and taken down to about the feed level the others were about empty and took 20 or so feet off the top. There was a shed on the windward side along with 2 harvestores that helped to block the wind. No tornado from that one just staight line winds. Dented the top of the one harvestore silos too.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 16, 2009

N/E of Palmyra In. no more than 3 miles , Could easily be seen from Hi-way 150 about a half mile distant .. this was the infamous April 3rd 1974 outbreak , ,, not sure what the rating for the tornado was given , I graduated Floyd C HS in 75 , Are you familiar? ,and Do You recall ? ... hope it wasn't your Place

Tom from Ontario · Oct 16, 2009

Scary to see a silo leaning. While road running the other day saw a Harvestore leaning right over the guy"s barn.. Apparently he hasn"t used it for years. Take a brave bunch to take it down.

Shetland Sheepdog · Oct 16, 2009

Had a wood stave silo go over here a number of years ago! They were using a Badger distributor on the blower pipe and had it adjusted wrong!
The silage was building up on one side and ended up taking it over! The only good thing is that it went AWAY from the barn!

danofarming · Oct 16, 2009

I have seen that happen before. The acid in the silage eats up the concrete stave until it crumbles. Anyone using old silos should inspect the lower staves closely.

RodinNS · Oct 17, 2009

Some would say.... too bad it didn't drift a bit more to the right and take the whole thing out properly.
There's just enough left there that insurance will probably want it fixed. If it was gone, then they could start with a clean slate...
Makes life easier on those things when you have to start over.

Rod

Billy NY · Oct 17, 2009

This is true, I'm currently working on one that 1/3rd collapsed, can be tough to square things up a bit,

RodinNS · Oct 17, 2009

At least this guy isn't alone in his troubles. I was watching the 6pm news tonight and there was a story of probably an 80 footer that came down across a main road in NewBrunswick. Pictures of wheel loaders and an excavator sitting on top of the silage, loading it out, trying to clear the road off...
What a mess.

Rod

Wesley Stephens · Oct 18, 2009

Lately I've been wishing that some of the abandoned silos around here were on our farm so we didn't have to pile it on the ground, but after seeing this I'm wondering if I'm better off.

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