Posted by John Harmon on June 25, 2010 at 05:58:32 from (174.26.184.137):
In Reply to: Re: Indiana Silo Co posted by wilson on June 24, 2010 at 14:53:59:
You have it right Wilson, Dad used to hire any loud mouth braggert he could find every late summer to climb the silos with a socket wrench and give the bands a tightening.Seems the loud mouths were the only ones with enough courage to do this job. I wasn't a loud mouth. Usually the bands never required any tightening from about 20 ft.up to the top but the bottom bands some times either loosened up or streched so a couple twists of the nut was given.I remember them putting another bunch of bands on the bottom 20 ft. or so of all the silos [3] later on.After 3-4 years of this in a row he seemed to forget about tightening the bands any more.Never had any problems I could see after this .
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