Posted by fixerupper on October 16, 2017 at 19:59:55 from (174.219.133.197):
In Reply to: Corn Crib Question posted by Kerwin on October 16, 2017 at 18:31:25:
The bucket elevator dropped the corn in a spout or funnel, if you want to call it that in the middle of the crib, then it slid down an extendable chute that could be rotated any direction. Usually the chute had three extensions that slid inside each other to telescope, sometimes four if it was a long crib. The chutes were usually half chutes with an open top. When the chute was extended all the way the angle flattened and sometimes damp shucky corn didn't want to slide well. That's when we got out the car wax.
The elevator could have been a bucket elevator in the fancier cribs. If there was no inside elevator an outside elevator was stuck through a door in the side of the cupola. A lot of times the elevator stayed there year round because it was quite a job backing the elevator through that little door way up there with the elevator swaying side to side. And the elevator was hand cranked to raise it. The arms and stamina were tested by the time the elevator was at full height. I can still remember the whomp, whomp, whomp sound of the corn coming out of the buckets or elevator flights and hitting the tin chute.
My job as a kid was to go upstairs in the crib when it was getting full and kick corn out into the far ends of the crib as it was coming down the chute. When I ran out of room or energy, whichever happened first, I had to be quick to get back to the cupola door to wave to the guy unloading the wagon to stop. Our 80 year old neighbor, god bless him, would be down there unloading the wagon but he never looked up to see if I was waving. I'd wave and wave, then scurry back down to the end of the spout to kick more corn so the spout that was now backed up to the top, could empty, then I'd go back to the cupola door and frantically wave again. I'd even throw ears of corn at him out of desperation. Sometimes I could get back down the ladder in time to run around the crib and stop the elevator before it plugged. Sometimes I was too late. (Sigh). Man, that was fifty years ago already. Where does the time go! I'm sure many of you midwesterners can tell the same story. LOL
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