Re: harvestores

Posted by farmerboy on December 12, 2006 at 19:32:59 from (66.84.233.204):

In Reply to: harvestores posted by pafreehling on December 12, 2006 at 15:31:08:

Stave silos can be taken down and rebuilt. Most guys will about give them away but it'll still cost you about 3/4 of new by the time you take down and put back up. I've heard of guys taking 2 or 3 down by breaking out the bottom staves and running when it starts to tip. That would save alot on take-down. They then take all the staves that didn't break and make one good one. Problem would be finding the EXACT same staves in 3 silos. Another problem would be getting the roof down first. If you're looking to only go 20-30 feet, one 60-80 footer would pry yield enough staves. I've also heard of guys filling the silo one last time and throwing down the staves as they feed off it. That pry wouldn't be much of an option on an abandoned farmstead where most are sitting. It would also require hand unloading as you'd be removing the cable system with the first line of staves.

I don't know if 25 foot high would be worth the effort. I'd go 60 - 80 if I were building a silo. Our 90 footer is a bear to fill. Those last 10 feet take ALOT of HP. Our 4430 wouldn't do it but our 1486 would. The 1486 had a few more RPMs.

The Harvestores we had were pretty much trouble free vs. what has been said previously - no leaks, no unloader probs. Our Goliath unloader didn't give us any trouble, really. It was just slow. Had we been on TMR, it woulda been painfully slow. The feed quality was always good.

Good luck whatever you do.

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