Posted by Big M on February 02, 2011 at 18:40:38 from (199.19.177.173):
In Reply to: Filling silos posted by charlie M on February 02, 2011 at 11:34:02:
In the 1956 we filled the 18' diameter x 30' tall stave silo with corn bundles. I was 6 years old and I would take the JD 60 down to the field and get a load of fresh made corn bundles made with a one row binder. Our IHC blower had a table on it and you dropped the bundle onto the conveyor and it fed into the cutter-blower. It chopped the corn and corn stalks into about 3/8" lengths and blew them up into the silo. We ran the unit with a IHC W-6. I remember the corn still being on the cob in the silo looking like a little "daisy wheel". Inside the silo was a man with distributor pipe guiding the falling silage all around the silo. He, along with some kids, would walk on the freshly deposited silage and pack it down. Every now and then you would have to remove a section of pipe as the pile got higher. They had a couple of chain links and a special hook. Still have 3 of those old distributor pipes around the farm.
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