[AT] Silo roofs

[Charlie V]

Don,t know about the silo, Dean, but that is a mighty handsome dog you have
following you around.  [?][?]

Charlie V.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:

> Very common around here to see old concrete silos with no roofs, such as
> the
> 1950-vintage silo on my farm:
> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/farm_and_goat_20141025.jpg
>
> I've been assuming the roof blew off in a storm at some point, but now I'm
> wondering if there was ever one there to begin with.   I have an aerial
> photo of this place from 1965, and just like today there's no roof on the
> big silo.   But in the 1965 photo, a tractor and silo blower are parked at
> the base of the silo, hooked to the fill pipe, and a herd of Holsteins is
> ambling about in the pasture.    That's only 15 years after the silo was
> built, and it sure looks to still be in active use, but there's no roof.
>
> At the top of this silo--and of several other very similar concrete silos I
> see as I drive around the local area--there's a steel frame that forms a
> three-sided pyramid.   A length of steel cable hangs straight down from the
> peak of that pyramid, and some more of that same cable is wound around the
> remains of an electric winch mounted down about head-height on one side of
> the silo, so I assume it was the hoist for the silo unloader.   But did the
> pyramid also support a roof, or did this type of silo never have a roof?
>
> Dean Vinson
> Saint Paris, Ohio
>
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