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coonie minnie

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Here's a picture I took on a farm being transitioned to a county park in Dane County, WI today. There were 9 cribs, 10 foundations present. All appeared built to the same specs. I was asked as to age- I was thinking 1950's or 60's. Anyone else care to offer an opinion? All the cribs had full length tunnels for a dragline beneath.
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My dad and grandfather built a new wire corn crib during the fall of 1970 or 1971. It was a round wire crib with a corn sheller drag tunnel formed (depressed) into the concrete. The crib was manufactured in Charles City, Iowa by the Walsh Company. It really looked like a bunch of livestock panels that you connected together with vertical rods. I did attach a sales brochure. The bottom ring was made, then filled with corn. Standing on the corn you built the second ring and filled it with corn. I believe there were four rings and of course the metal roof. I assume you stood up there on the corn and pieced the roof together. I remember riding up to Charles City with my grandfather to pick up the crib. It all fit in the back of a 1/2 ton pickup. I think it held round 3000 bushels of ear corn. The crib was sold and removed long before I bought the farm. I did have to contend with the foundation which was way over built. There were no cracks in the concrete when I removed it. Took a large excavator a couple hours to get it broke up. I remember he got a big chunk broke off and started lifting that chunk up and dropping it on the foundation.


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When an elderly neighbor retired and I was starting in, I filled a couple of those, just like that, on his place, for a few years. Darn, that was 40 some years ago!
 
Thanks for asking. There aren't as many 'ears' as it appears. I cut several styrafoam blocks round so they're a little smaller diameter than the crib, then filled in around them with corn. I cut lots of strips of wood to match stick size then had them in bundles to saw short pieces on the bandsaw. I spray painted piles of the corn, then moved them around and sprayed again a few times.
 
When I was a kid my dad made an elevator for me that actually worked. His dad, my grand-dad worked in a tin shop and dad had access to what he needed to build it. It was durable, I never broke it. Wish I had a picture of it.
 
It's called Springfield Park, in the corner of Dane, Rock, and Jefferson Counties. The buildings are all staying, it's sort of an agricultural park- 300 acres donated by an elderly woman.
 
The last thing that my grandpa built on the farm were two large conventional corn cribs (1950s) Theres a large bin one that spot now. Grandpa didnt live long enough to see shelled corn on the farm. I wonder what he would have thought about the operation
 
We had a corn crib like that. It was called a Rod-lok, I believe. The roof was assembled on the ground, and we used an elevator to lift it in place.
The first time we hoisted it up, we could NOT get it to fit right, and we finally decided to count the roof panels.turns out we were missing one panel. The bundle was short from the factory.
That was in late 1960s. It stood till around 2017, when a drunk driver managed to take both the crib and a grain bin next to it out in one fell swoop.
 
The good old days--The one on the left is a Walsh-it was bolted together-the one on the right might be a Speedy-they were held together with rods-built 10 mi. away in Oelwein, Iowa they used to advertise nights on the radio when we were milking--Thick as a quarter inch bolt-we ground a lot of ear corn for the cows!
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We had 2. One was Dakota don't know what the other was. I always liked using them. Set the elevator once to fill. Set the sheller once to empty. Now days they work good to store firewood.
 
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