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kcm.MN

Well-known Member

Location

NW Minnesota

• Feb 18, 2023

• #1

Puzzle: https://jigex.com/M1VG7

 

Fawteen

Well-known Member

Location

Downeast Maine

• Feb 19, 2023

• #2

We had one of those on the farm. It had a Dad-built wooden structure up the center to circulate air through the corn.

My main memory of it is what a miserable Esso Bee it was to unload.

 

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valleview

Member

Location

South West Le Sueur County, Minnesota

• Feb 19, 2023

• #3

The cattle will have plenty of ground feed.

 

Stroby

Member

• Feb 19, 2023

• #4

Dandy. Those were the days I grew up in and everything was hard work. Memories.

 

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Richard G.

Well-known Member

• Feb 19, 2023

• #5

Never saw one like that in our area.
All were wooden ones.

 

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muleman51

Member

• Feb 19, 2023

• #6

Emptied a couple of those every year one grinder mixer at a time. Great cattle feed especially when you had a three boys to help grind. Kinda wish I still had and used
one would probably keep me in better shape.

 

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tractorkrum

Member

• Feb 19, 2023

• #7

There were a lot of them around my area (NW WI) I even helped put up a couple. Now people move them into residential areas and use them for gazebos.

 

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John in MD

Member

Location

Md

• Feb 19, 2023

• #8

We had Unico's like the one on the right. Still remember shoveling as fast as we could until the manifold on the M glowing red as it was
getting dark. Couldn't do that with the 630 hooked to the grinder mixer, it would lug down and chock up.

 

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john in la

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Location

What part of in La do you not understand

• Feb 19, 2023

• #9

I also have never seen one like that in person. All our cribs
had wooden sides. Most likely we get to much rain for
something like that to work as the sides would always be wet.

 

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Rich'sToys

Well-known Member

Location

Southern MN

• Feb 19, 2023

• #10

(quoted from post at 05:45:24 02/19/23) We had one of those on the farm. It had a Dad-built wooden structure up the center to circulate air through the corn.

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Ours also had a homemade wooden structure up the center. In later years it no longer had a roof, as the wind tipped it over a couple times and wrecked the roof.

 

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matthies

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• Feb 19, 2023

• #11

50 Years ago you couldn't drive a mile and not see one. Seems each field had one. We had two on our place and uncle had two across the road, and two at his place. There still is a row of 10 a few miles from
here. Some of the later guys who picked had quite a few of them as there were cheap then. Northeast Nebraska. Just took down three of the crib to the right a couple years ago. The left one was a poor design as
you couldn't fill as much without scooping, as the picture shows. Helps we only live 30 miles away from one of the manufacturing companys, Behlen.

 

big tee

Well-known Member

• Feb 19, 2023

• #12

I agree with Stroby- Hard work but lots of memories!!---Tee

My Dad and the 400 and 2-pr--we had 2 barge boxes and a flare box

Me unloading ear corn

Shelling out the cribs--oldest brother got the easy job--I was probably in the crib with a shovel!!--late 60's

 

SweetFeet

Well-known Member

• Feb 19, 2023

• #13

We had a wire crib in addtion to our wooden 2-sided crib. The round wire crib required my husband to to a lot more shoveling than in the wooden cribs.

A few years after we began renting out our land, he scrapped the wire crib.

 

Greg NE

Member

Location

Duncan, Nebraska

• Feb 19, 2023

• #14

Mathies, you must not live too far from me, I work at Behlen. We have this one still standing on our old farm less than 20 miles from where it was made, hasn't been used since the late 80's. Dad still picked corn up til then for feed. Made for pretty easy scooping with the drag in the middle. Small world sometimes!!

 

tomstractorsandtoys

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• Feb 19, 2023

• #15

We still fill a crib and shell it to. Tom

 

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Huskergreen

Member

• Feb 19, 2023

• #16

Northeast Nebraska was known as the corn crib corner of the state.

 

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paul

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• Feb 19, 2023

• #17

Very nice. With the forecast for southern MN, it sure is nice to see something green!

Paul

 

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matthies

Well-known Member

• Feb 19, 2023

• #18

Live by Stanton, grew up in Clarkson, my Dads brother worked there also from 70's-90's, farmed and raised 7 kids, worked in the department that made building sheets, and had a neighbor that was a welder there. They are both gone now.

 

Greg NE

Member

Location

Duncan, Nebraska

• Feb 20, 2023

• #19

I grew up between Leigh and Creston. Live in Duncan now. My dad worked at Behlen back in the 60s part time, some in the old plant in town and some out where it is now.