silo tipped over

tractormiallis · Sep 24, 2011

Anyone have experience with a silo falling over when full? Local farm had one go over over full of corn silage this week. Wow what a mess!! It was the cement block type. Had about 70 wagon loads in it. Took less than 48 hours to go over, just a day after filling. Sure came down hard and damaged a lot, but could have been MUCH worse. If anyone has pictures of this happening other places, please link to them.

mark in boonville ny · Sep 24, 2011

never seen it happen. my silos are holding my old barn up and i wont be suprised if they fall over and into the road because thats were theyll go. i seen on seconds from disaster sombody was taking one one down with a crawler and he couldnt get away fast enough and it fell over on top of him. he was alright if i remember right. also seen one in a book that was full and landed on a truck.

IaGary · Sep 24, 2011

Since it did it when full the base or foundation must have settled with the weight.

Gary

MSM · Sep 24, 2011

Happens every year this time of year....Either fall down or crack severely. Old silos,no maintenance, filled to capacity in a day or 2 in a wet year,where it used to take 2 weeks, and had time to settle.

Brian Jasper co. Ia · Sep 24, 2011

I saw that one too. The crawler driver gave it a bump and it came back on top of the dozer in a big pile.

oldironman · Sep 24, 2011

Agway research farm has a 70 footer that they tamped down while filling to see if they could get more in it. Two days latter it got warm outside and the silage raised the silo straight up about 7 feet off of the foundation. They had cables in all directions and saved it. I sure looked funny and they never did that again.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 24, 2011

happened around here a couple years ago. tall silos..filled too fast and maybe the silage didnt quite center in the silo..big mess indeed.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 24, 2011

we always changed the spout as it filled to keep the silage centered, neighbor said they could tip and we weren't going to chance it, this was a 50x16 and usually filled it in a day or day in a half

just another old geezer · Sep 24, 2011

seen several silos go down, usually too wet of feed put in and water soaked the foundation, saw a harvestore buckle when they short armed the unloader.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 24, 2011

Yep, that was a cool video, there was a small tree growing in the silo, which saved the dozer operator!
silo vs dozer

xfarma · Sep 24, 2011

Had one come down about 20 miles from here 15 - 20 years ago,fell right across the barn right after night milking everyone was out of the barn but they did lose 20 or so cows and alot of their tie stall barn. What a mess.

Leroy · Sep 24, 2011

Around 40 year ago, steel silo being filled came down and landed on the farmer, Neighbor, When they got all the silage out there was a big dent in the steel where it landed on the guy and killed him.

John in Nebraska · Sep 24, 2011

Neighbor put in a pair of Harvestores, good sized ones. Leveled a spot at one end of his yard, dry ground, erected by the Harvestore crew. A month later he was filling one and it leaned over into its neighbor! They brought in one of those big mud pumper trucks and powered about 30 yards of concrete into the ground to make it level again. When the sun is right you can see they aren't exactly straight up as you drive by.

Weldon K · Sep 24, 2011

I saw these pictures on the internet a few years ago and saved them . Somewhere in New York I think.

paul · Sep 24, 2011

Fortunately never been around it, but I hear it's a problem when folks switch from little chopper/ wagons to a big setup, what used to take 3 days to fill now takes less than a day, and the air doesn't pack out right fast enough, if you don't have it center fill prefectly the compaction and air is way off center & over they go.

--->Paul

Don-Wi · Sep 24, 2011

Back when I was in high school a harvestore fell down not far from wherre I live now. A school buddy worked at the farm and he said the owner had just left the area of the barn it fell on about 3 minutes prior to it coming down.

Never saw any of the damage myself though.

Donovan from Wisconsin

PJH · Sep 24, 2011

About 15 miles east of here, a concrete stave silo was starting to lean pretty badly. The farmer also had an excavating business, and he cabled a D8 to it and it sat like that for a long time, tied to the dozer. I don't know how they fixed it, but it's standing straight and proud today.

LMD · Sep 24, 2011

There have been a few around here go over over the years. Usually lack of maintenance or not fixing damage. Old timers say filling too fast with a distributor that doesnt spread the silage out evenly and puts too much silage on one side of the silo could tip one over.

Eldon (WA) · Sep 24, 2011

My brother quit using his 20 x 80...said the previous owner must have filled it when the concrete was too green and it never cured properly. He started seeing rebar inside at the lower levels a few years ago, so quit using it. It was poured in the early 80's. So it just sits...expensive project to take it down. He switched to silage bags and TMR.

tractormiallis · Sep 24, 2011

The base on this one was ok, but the blocks started cracking and buckling on the bottom 4 feet and over it went. Now im guessing probably as it compacted. Was not loaded evenly either, but it fell on the blower side oddly, opposite the most weight.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 24, 2011

The canopy on the dozer is what saved the operator.

silo tipped over

Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Member

Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

Well-known Member

New User

Well-known Member

Member

Well-known Member

Similar threads