Tearing down cement block silo.....

   / Tearing down cement block silo..... #41  
A project I enjoyed!!
 

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   / Tearing down cement block silo..... #42  
Thanks for your time.
 
   / Tearing down cement block silo..... #44  
That was great. Would have liked sound /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Mike
 
   / Tearing down cement block silo..... #45  
Cool pics. Looks like your excavator was about 100' too close though. Glad everything worked out okay for you.
 
   / Tearing down cement block silo..... #46  
Thanks for sharing the Pic. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

DougM
 
   / Tearing down cement block silo..... #47  
kdje,

Thanks for the pictures and information. Hopefully I never have to deal with a silo. It looks way too dangerous!
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Something horrible has happened since I started this thread.The DPO had left the thing filled with silage from more than six years back.Thought it would be great on the garden but when we popped open one of the lower doors we found the stuff to be as hard as clay!!! Takes me about an hour to chip out about half a yard.I wonder if there is a better way.The auger is surely frozen.I thought about an ice fishing auger to dig it out. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif )</font>


Whoa! Most blue metal silos & a very few concrete silos have a bottom unloading deal, but on all other silos, you do _not_ open a bottom door & unload. you crawl up the chute and stand on top of the silage, & throw it down the chute one silage-fork full at a time.

Picking it out at the bottom creates all kinds of hazards of it caving in on you or once you get a hole dug out then it's too dangerous to go on top any more, etc.

Might have been covered already in later messages, but don't do it this way!

--->Paul
 

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