Silo base question (pic)

TKiste · Mar 19, 2012

This is the first silo I've seen like this. What is the base ring and cogged track for?

just another old geezer · Mar 19, 2012

It was a feeding bunk. silage dumped out of the silo, draged around by the track and paddles untill full for cattle to eat out of.

Pete in MD · Mar 19, 2012

I'd say the unloader dumped the silage into the base ring and the cogged ring slats moved the silage around the silo until the base ring was full.
The cows stood outside and ate out of the base ring as if it was a regular feed bunk. The upright pipes probably held some fencing or cable to keep the cows out of the base ring.All the concrete around the silo is for the cows and easy manure clean up.

gab · Mar 19, 2012

There used to be a feed bunk like that on this farm. I never seen it in action but heard the cattle could get pushing and shoving and one could get tipped over on it"s back in the bunk.

rrlund · Mar 19, 2012

Patz made one similar,but I think they used the hook link chain on those. It's a feed bunk,yes. I just don't recognize it to tell you the brand.

PJH · Mar 19, 2012

The dairy farm I worked on when I was in high school had two silos with those type of feed bunks. They were nice, but that was in the mid sixties. . .

Seems like the ring (bunk) was trouble free, but the unloader was another story. . . There was always something haywire with the unloader.

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