That's a load off!! OT

[40plyrod]

Hey guys a great weight has been lifted. We finally took down the old stave silo that my dad built in 1974 and has sat unused for the past 15 years. It has been starting to lean for the last year or so and I've been worried that it would fall so we decided it was best to take it down. For the last week we have been rigging the cables and preparing the area and in that time I think I may have slept only a few hours, most of my time was spent lying awake thinking about how it would go. We hired a crane truck to lift me up in the manbasket to take down the ladder and fill pipe as well as string the cables. Then the next day we smashed a hole in it with sledge hammer to run a cable around the section of the undercut that would stay till last and once that was tied to the tractor we hit an under cut in it with a sledge. We used one tractor to pull the middle section of undercut out and another to pull the silo over. It was sad to see it go as my dad worked really hard to put it up but happy not to have to worry about it anymore. I'm trying something new so I hope it works here's the link to the video. I apologise for my sister and our helpers commentary at the end you can watch with the volume off:o

[1940plymouth]

Cool video

I have many hours while growing up of using a silage fork to throw silage down a silo like that to feed the cows before the evening milking

[greg g]

Ther was a farm north of Morrisville, NY that had a harvestor silo that was doing a leaning lower of Pisa impression for a number of years. As the lean increased a sign appeared near ground level,

"Parking for Salesmen Only"

Last time I was by there the silo was gone. Don't know if it fell down or was brought down.

[Don Coatney]

Sound was the best part of the video:D

[Plymouthy Adams]

quite an undertaking and appears to have come off without a hitch..your sister's punishment..clean up the mess...

[Don Coatney]

quite an undertaking and appears to have come off without a hitch..your sister's punishment..clean up the mess...

The silo mess or the other one???

[oldodge41]

Nice job. Could not have been done better.

[40plyrod]

Cool video

I have many hours while growing up of using a silage fork to throw silage down a silo like that to feed the cows before the evening milking

That was my job on weekends and holidays...I sure liked school back then:D

[40plyrod]

Nice job. Could not have been done better.

As with most things, a good part of it was an educated guess and the rest was luck but we couldn't have been happier with the result. Our automated grain feeder building was only 2' to the right of the silo and it only had a little scuff in the wall from a wayward chunk of tile.