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IAfarmguy
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- Prairie City, Iowa
Very nice pics. Really like the red barn. Thanks for the post.
kcm.MN
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- Location
- NW Minnesota
Tucker, thanks for the pics!!
Can you give a bit of info about that first pic please? Looks kinda like two storage bins joined together at the hip. *lol*
Can you give a bit of info about that first pic please? Looks kinda like two storage bins joined together at the hip. *lol*
bradley martin
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That structure in the first photo is a corn crib. Some outfit built them throughout the midwest.
Constructed mostly of special concrete blocks, much like a stave silo. Any I have seen were double
cribs with a drive between them for the wagons to unload into a bucket elevator.
Constructed mostly of special concrete blocks, much like a stave silo. Any I have seen were double
cribs with a drive between them for the wagons to unload into a bucket elevator.
Bob Bancroft
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- Location
- Aurora NY
I hope SV doesn't see that Deere with the loader. He'll be after it, no matter how far away it is!
Bob Bancroft
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- Location
- Aurora NY
Very interesting. That's quite extravagant for ear corn. A dedicated elevator for one crop! I was very young when my father built his last corn crib. It was 6' wide and 50' long. All hard work. Lots of moving to fill it, likewise when shelling out of it. And shoveling out of it terrible with the cross braces he put in.
TractorTucker
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It is an old grain building, a truck would
drive through the middle and dump grain
and a bucket line would pick it up and put
it in one of the silos for storage. I have
some pictures of the mechanism for the
bucket line that I have attached.
drive through the middle and dump grain
and a bucket line would pick it up and put
it in one of the silos for storage. I have
some pictures of the mechanism for the
bucket line that I have attached.
coonie minnie
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AMny drive through cribs in Il, IA etc had a built in bucket elevator... not just for the ear corn, but many had wooden bins over the center drive for shelled corn, small grain, soybean etc.
My father in law in east central IL has 3 drive through wooden cribs cribs, with I think that same elevator in one of them. All have 3 or 4 bins over the drive for grain. It was really a neat design. There are several of the concrete stave ones like the one pictured left in his neighborhood, too.
My father in law in east central IL has 3 drive through wooden cribs cribs, with I think that same elevator in one of them. All have 3 or 4 bins over the drive for grain. It was really a neat design. There are several of the concrete stave ones like the one pictured left in his neighborhood, too.
Bob Bancroft
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- Location
- Aurora NY
So it was more than just a corn crib, with bins for other grains? That makes more sense for the expense involved.
TractorTucker
Member
The shed is actually attached to it, as far as I am aware there are no overhead bins in this one, at the top there are several funnels for unloading into a truck or trailer. It is a neat old building, if someone was interested in saving it and moving it somewhere else the owner would sell it cheap.
TractorTucker
Member
I don't know if it was used for other grains. It is on some land that my uncle bought and I thought it might look good in a photo. I assume that it would work for other grains as well, the funnels for unloading into a truck are rectangular and look like they could get plugged by a piece of ear corn going in side ways.
TractorTucker
Member
I think he has seen a picture of it before, it is a gas 3020 and I need to rebuild the carb.
Kansasredneck
Member
My former in-laws have one like that near Pipestone MN. Several bins as I recall. It's been over twenty years since I was there though.
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