corn cribs

Brian806 · May 7, 2014

Anybody out thier able to give me some ideas on how to build a large corn crib and try to cut down on shoveling! I want to set it up and shell out of it! Looking to build something to hold 10000 bushels or more! Right now im using round cribs! And need to build something by fall!

Anonymous-0 · May 7, 2014

Have a crib built in the mid 60'. Sixty feet long 18 feet high. Cribs are 7 feet wide with a 16 foot drive in between. Concrete floor sloped to the inside. Have shelled out of it need s long drag.

farmerwithmutt · May 7, 2014

Seen cribs set up.to drive in with bobcats then dumped in gravity box then feed into grinder mixer

fixerupper · May 7, 2014

Building a crib that size today is like building a new dinosaur. Seriously consider putting up a steel bin. It will be half the size and cheaper per bushel. A big crib requires a lot of heavy timber and bracing. I seriously doubt the money saved letting the corn air dry in a crib will justify building a crib that big. Jim

LonM · May 7, 2014

Here is a link to a you-tube video showing a really large crib:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn13T5JtzXA

We still pick ear corn for feed, and have found the easiest way for us to handle it is to pile it between two rows of hay bales (with bales on the end to keep the pile contained). The pile area between the rows is three bales wide (around 15 feet). To clean it up we load our feed grinder/mixer with a skid steer. If you build a crib, please post pictures!

Good Luck,
Lon

teddy52food · May 7, 2014

Local farmer built one years ago with a barn cleaner chain in the floor. Short planks covering it. Open the side above the chain & as the corn is gone , remove planks for more.

paul · May 7, 2014

Was thinking of that video when I read the original post, thanks for putting it up.

You need to know what you are doing and get the corn moved before next summer if you go wider that 7 feet or so on the crib. It won't dry well of you get too wide.

My old crib will hold 4000 bu or so, if you fill the middle of it would almost double that, but then you are looking at slow drying, need to feed tha middle out and still have time for air to dry the sides before summer heat comes.

We have a conveyor across the top in the peak, so you don't have to move the elevator, just move a knock-off to push the corn off in different places.

Paul

Paul

ohiojim · May 8, 2014

there's one not far from me that is falling down that was built on a bank that they could dump the corn into the top and load out the bottom

LonM · May 8, 2014

I agree with you about keeping a crib narrow. I should have added to my original post that we feed up our piled corn before spring comes. Ear corn needs to come off the ground before it warms up, otherwise it will spoil and the rats will have a hay day.... Your setup sounds interesting, Paul!

Lazy WP · May 8, 2014

Not sure where you are, but I would sure be interested in buying your round ones.

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rrlund · May 8, 2014

Build a double one (side by side) and put an old gutter cleaner in the bottom so it goes around through both. Kinda V a concrete floor in to a gutter in the bottom. Notch the concrete a little at the top edges so you can lay short planks over the gutter while you're filling. Then just keep pulling the planks while you empty it.

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