corn crib question

Farmallb

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How long would a rectangular crib 8 or 10ft wide, 10ft high to the eves need to be to hold 400bu corn, and still have a 10ft space for a hand crank sheller and cob storage
 
Well 10X10X10 is 1000 cubic feet of space so how many Bu of corn takes up that much space
 
Good equation, but I don't see it gets me any smarter lol. Just in case, you DO realize im talking about ear corn?
 
First of all 10 ft. is to wide for a crib. Lets get it down to 6 ft. and you need 10 ft. floor for the sheller and cobs? Why do the cobs need to be in the crib? I guess I don't know what you are trying to do here. Are you building a crib from ground up?
 
Yup, building a crib from ground up. Our crib in NE Kansas was 10ft wide and it was built around or over 100yrs ago. Im in NE Okla where its ALOT hotter, AND dryer. The cobs need to be in a bin near the sheller. Beats having to get rid of them every couple days. Also, Id try using them in a Rocket stove outside while canning.
 
400 bu of ear corn.

Times 2.5 cubic feet (a bu of ear corn takes 2.5) = 1000 cubic feet.

A 10x10x1 foot of crib = 100 cubic feet.

So you would need a crib 10 feet long. But that would be packed really tight and full, I?d sure give a little wiggle room and of course wetter corn will take more room to start with until the moisture shrinks out.

As the other said, a 6 or 7 foot wide crib is a much better idea, but you have to know what you are doing for yourself.

An 8 foot wide crib 10 feet high would need to be 12.5 feet long to hold a perfect 400 bu.

The cob and Sheller deal is up you what you need extra, I have no idea.

Paul

Paul
 

I'd say 15 ft for corn storage plus 10 for the sheller and cobs, so 25 ft for a 10 ft wide crib, 8 ft wide you'll need to stretch it out to 30 ft.
 
Yes I understand ear corn, while I have never harvested ear corn back when I lived in NE a lot of farmers that went to the church my dad preached at had corn cribs and ear corn so I saw a lot of it. Big thing would be to figure out how much space a Bu of corn takes and then go form there
 

paul's formula is correct, a bushel of ear corn takes up 2.5 cubic feet.
A crib measuring 10x10 will hold 40 bushel per foot in length.
10x10- 10 ft long hold 400 bushel when level full.
A crib measuring 8x10 will hold 32 bushel per foot in length.
8x10- 12.5 ft will hold 400 bushel when level full.
I'd want ether crib to be a little longer (2-3 ft) so I wouldn't have to get up there and level it out.

I'm looking at building a crib 10x8- 20 ft long to hold around 600 bushel of ear corn. The crib will be built on columns 4-5 ft above ground level
I want removable center boards to feed the corn into a auger under the floor, the auger will feed corn out to my grinder mixer.
This design should eliminate a lot of shoveling.
 
A quick rule of thumb is one cubic foot holds 0.8 bushels of shelled corn or 0.4 bushels of ear corn.
 
Yeah I flunked Algebra. That helped me a lot NOT lol. on a 10 X 20 crib, would that be 2bu across, and 8bu down?, making it 80bu 1ft high? Prolly wong lol
 
Yea, it?s hard to visualize the difference you are getting by going 3D and going from square foot measures to cubic measures.

We can type it on a keyboard all day, but it just doesn?t snap into place easily when trying to understand it....

Paul
 
Well, Ive about decided on 10 X 18, as I can buy 20ft lengths, and cut them to suit for the sides, floor, and roof, with a foot overhang on each side. I tried to get in touch with Evergreen Farms that have a particular open pollinated seed I want to plant. In case you"ve forgotten, and others don"t know, Open pollinated corn stalks have more protein in them than hybred, and cows will eat them sooner than hybred, if they eat hybred stalks at all. Ill bind them up with my IHC corn binder, and run them through my NI husker shredder, and blow them into a wire silo.
I left a message for them to E mail me, but it hasn"t happened, so I guess ill try leaving my Ph#. hate to do that, with so much spam on the phone nowadays. IF I don"t recognize the ph# or if the area codes not mine, I don"t deal with it.
 

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