[AT] Don't scratch the paint!

John Hall jthall at worldnet.att.net
Sun Aug 17 05:29:29 PDT 2008


That must have been a sight to see--a heck of a lot more weight there than 
what we were dealing with. Was this a pit tpe silo you were putting it in?

 This talk of unloading somewhat reminds me of the old timers uloading a 
grain truck with a cable pulled device similar to a horse plow. You removed 
the tailgate and climbed into the truck and "plowed" the load out. From what 
I gather it was short lived method and replaced by cable or hydraulic lift 
front end lifts.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Don't scratch the paint!


> we would unload silage wagons in much the same way.  We would lay Hog
> wire with one end fastened to a pipe which rode on top of the sidepaords
> at the front.  The wire was then covered with chicken wire to hold the
> silage on top of the hog wire.  The wire was long enough that it would
> go from the top of the sideboards down to the floor and then to the rear
> of the trailer where it was turned up and held with a rope between the
> sideboards to hold the wire up to make an endgate.  When we got to the
> silo with a loaded wagon, untie the rope, hook a long cable to the
> bridle chain attached to the post at the front and pull off an entire 16
> ft wagon load of silage in about 30 seconds.  A kid on each end would
> pull the pipe and wire back into the wagon and tie up the rear end and
> "fly" back to the field to get another trailer.  We had 3 trailers
> running between the silage cutter and the silo.  One time we had 5 miles
> between the field and the silo.  We got 2 more trailers and a truck and
> used a pickup to pull the trailers.  When all the kids went away to
> college and got jobs, we quit putting up silage....
>
> Cecil in OKla
>




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