Corn stover silo question

Farmallb · Feb 23, 2009

I am thinking of buying a corn binder, and husker shredder to save the corn and make stover out of the shucks. I am thinking of setting 2 24ft utility poles 3 or 4 ft apart. and running boards across from them all the way up nailed other than say 6ft from the bottom which ill set in with boards as I fill it. Then ill run 8ft rabbit wire, 1 X 2in in to joined pieces joined with rabbit clips and build a 20ft circle 16ft high each end steepled to one each of the poles. Then when ive filled it up to within a foot from the top, run another section of the wire for 24ft. Question is, Do you think this will work. Being dry, do you think it will provide too great a strain on the steeples at the poles, and do you think that it will drop out from above as its being taken out from below, or will I have to climb up as in a regular silo?????

IaGary · Feb 24, 2009

If I am thinking what you mean by rabbit wire I will say no way.

Are you thinking the wire with 1/2 squares?

That wire is way to light. If the staples do hold the wire will still tear.

Gary

Anonymous-0 · Feb 24, 2009

I think it would be alot easier to put up stalks in Hesston stacks or round bales

rrlund · Feb 24, 2009

I was wondering how you were going to get it out of there until I read the last line. No. And if it does,it'll probably all come down at once while you're under it. The way they used to do that was just to blow it in a pile outside if there wasn't room in the barn. As long as it's cold,it'll keep for a reasonable amount of time. Some people just over think things. For a long time,when we had extra ear corn,we would put it in snow fence,thinking that for some reason it had to be horizontal. Finally learned my lesson and just set the elevator up out on some sod and piled it up in a cone shape. Don't know why we wasted so much time and energy shoveling all those years. I just fed it up from the pile first,loaded it back into the wagon with the loader and ground it out of there. I think you're overthinking this corn stalk thing the same way.

paul · Feb 24, 2009

Round baler would be so much easier.....

I do not think the structure is needed at all?

These piles were always just blown into a pile. The natural shape of the tapered pile would shed water better than your formed stack. The wire will not last. It will be harder to get the stuff out of the structure than just grabbing it from a pile with no sides or poles or nothing.

At the least, I would experiement with just a pile the first year, not build anything! You should find that works real well for most.

--->Paul

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