[AT] Don't scratch the paint!

[Cecil Bearden]

It was a pit silo.  One of the wagons had a moveable angled front end 
gate that had rubber belting on the sides.  It had a chain bridle 
attached  that would pull the load of grain out of the back afer you 
opened the rear endgate and attached a tractor.  This may be the same 
type of arrangement.  I grew up with very tight German immigrant farmers 
who had some real ingenuity.

Cecil in OKla

John Hall wrote:
> 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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