There's no place like home

[Norm]

Another cold day in Iowa so after chopping enough wood for next week I got out my new dig camera and took some shots of our farm from the upstairs window.

[redpowerd]

is that an ole tiled silo? roof that sucker!

[DanG]

Looks like a bumper crop of cotton, this year.

Nice lookin' place.

[Jeff]

Hey! Look! He's still got one tree left!  Hmmm, shaped like a white oak. Could be a maple though... Ah well, look where its at. Its probably got a plow growed in the bottom of it.

[Norm]

We're going to drop that silo this spring, my idea is to get a bunch of guys over for some target shooting and set the target up on the base. How many rounds through the Barrett do ya think it might take? My wife isn't crazy about that idea.

I'll have you know I had a guy from Idaho call me for cherry the other day, he was a cabinet maker, and insisted that the best cherry lumber comes from Iowa. Of course he also wanted 1000 bd ft of q-sawn cherry and was p**sed when I told him I don't q-saw cherry and didn't know of anybody that did.

Give a guy a little razing about helping out his wife framing and he attacks our poor little shade tree, thou I wouldn't be surprised if someone leaned a farm implement up against that tree and it grew into it. Probably why it's still there.

[Texas Ranger]

I have a friend in northern Missouri with a couple of full auto water cooled .30 calibers.  I am sure he will be most happy to come up and see what he can cross stitich that silo for, and  wont charge much either.  

[redpowerd]

we took down two 80' poured silos last spring with a big komatsu tracked excavator thingy. but we also used the 400 foot barn to build a moutian of concrete and wood right next to them. theres a crazy contractor around here that tips em over like trees with a dozer, but i never seen it.

[Haytrader]

Don,

I can see it now, this guy comes up to your door .........

"Are you Don Staples?"

"Aaaa, yes, what can I do for ya?"

"I am with the A T F and I understand you have a friend that has some fully automatic weaponry. May we come in?"

[Ron Wenrich]

There was a guy who had one of those tiled silos and thought it would make a pretty neat swimming pool.  He put about 20' of water in it and dove in.  The resulting force of the water against the walls collapsed the silo and killed him.

[Norm]

I think Missouri still allows you to have full autos if you have the proper ATF licenses, unfortunately Iowa is anal about that stuff and doesn't. Now that would be quite the sight to see him unload on that silo, could probably charge admission to pay for the job. Nearest neighbor is the cemetary and they don't complain about the noise.

I'm not sure that I'd like to be in the excavator when they tackle something like that, hard telling which way it'll tip.

[hiya]

One time when I lived in Pa. I took down a tile silo with a sledge hammer. Jist like chopping down a tree, Made a hole in it, then worked around. After a little it went over like a tree.
richard

[Tom]

what's a tiled silo? :-/

[johnjbc]

It’s a silo made by laying up glazed tile blocks. They put a circular iron ring in every in every  course of tiles to give it strength. They haven't built them that way for a long time
You can see one in this picture.

[UNCLEBUCK]

Hi Norm, I used a 12 gauge shotgun and 2 boxes of 00 buckshot and stood enough away and shot away at about the 4th row up, opposite side from the silo room because the barn and silo room were still good and my old silo fell just like a tree , i never removed one steel band before starting to pick away at that old rotten silo ! the red looking block i had was not glazed and was severely brittle, but i did get a sore shoulder for a week, actually black and blue ! the silo never touched the barn or pulled anything away from it, good pics from you , take care !

[Norm]

Hey thanks Unclebuck, now I have a live testimonial to show my wife that it is practical. The 00 buckshot sounds like a good idea, thanks.

BTW, I have really enjoyed your posts about getting the circular mill going, I run a bandsaw mill but have always liked to watch those big circle saws run.

[redpowerd]

Unclebuck, only 2 boxes, huh, musta been pretty rotten.

Norm, you puttin an addition onto the barn? how bad is that silo, anyway?  theres a few a them silos round here, and i think there just as nostalgic as the barns they served. turn it into a watchtower, by the looks of the land round there, you could see the french comin fer miles! take that machine gun and mount it right next to the hot tub on the roof.

[UNCLEBUCK]

hey there, i am catching up on all the forum threads and was wondering if you ever got your old silo down or did you leave it stand, let us all know ok !