Can you give me a heads up. I been looking for silo scaffolding but every online search just returns regular scaffold, when I'm looking for the scaffold as used in this video that is erected inside the silo.
@georgendiga2 ай бұрын
Safety gear for man in cap
@DS-bk3mc7 ай бұрын
Built mostly 20x60’s in the summer of 1971. 2 guys on the ground, and2 guys inside building. The most fun part was going down the side on a bosons chair to tighten the nuts on the bands. Farmer was supposed to feed us lunch. The better the food, the better the silo.
@samuelmoody7059 Жыл бұрын
I have a18 by 70 ribstone built in 1977 still in great condition has been shotcreted
@peterbarlow8912 Жыл бұрын
Happy to see one being built even if it’s a relocation. Lots of demolition videos of people taking chances with an excavator. Unless they are unstable it seems a shame to demolish these structures.
@tpc-71752 жыл бұрын
Built fickes style for a few years. Loved that job don't miss the low pay though lol
@mrlukeplease2 жыл бұрын
I worked for Pearson (Wisconsin) in the late 70s, putting up silos. Very hard work. What this doesn’t show are they guys crawling up the silo and hand-tightening all the hoops. Dangerous, too, at least once a month a stave would slip the tongs and bash someone below. Surprisingly, they hit legs more often than heads.
@tpc-71752 жыл бұрын
We had seat boards and started at the top and worked our way down to tighten all the lugs. Then you only gotta deal with the rope and tackle once.
@helvetiaresearch99732 жыл бұрын
You should edit the sound track.
@robertheinkel62252 жыл бұрын
Doing it the same way we did 55 years ago.
@Roadkill31202 жыл бұрын
the winching takes much too long. They could send up 3 or 4 Tyles at once, i guess.
@rairai35172 жыл бұрын
Someone needs to hand the boy a rubber mallet .....
@kevinrice49092 жыл бұрын
Silos are fun! Thanks!
@billrobertson15072 жыл бұрын
Very cool to watch. How do they put the roof on it. I'll bet that is pretty sketchy.
@mrlukeplease2 жыл бұрын
It was. All but the last piece could be installed from the platform inside the silo, but some newbie always got the job of fastening the last piece from the outside. Something you don’t want to do with a hangover.
@franciss.32982 жыл бұрын
Looks like a Ribstone brand silo from Troy, Pa. Now out of business but they put up a lot of them in NE Penna.
@donnkemp93022 жыл бұрын
They also had factory in Urbana, Ohio. We put a 20x70 in 60's amazing to see in person. Every once in while a stave would come loose going up and it dropped really fast!
@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr2 жыл бұрын
Damn Cool. Always wondered how that was done. (Anyone have any idea what something like this might cost?)
@leorbuis90242 жыл бұрын
You don't happen to be related to Bob or Bruce or Boyd batterman of Lincoln Nebraska do you?
@danfarris1352 жыл бұрын
My first time ever seeing one go up. I have seen more than I care to being torn down. Thanks for posting.
@Bricky-gs3lp2 жыл бұрын
I built these in the 70's. I built the White Star brand silo. We did not have the double hoist system like these guys do, we had a single hoist run by a gas engine. The forman ran the rope, I was the catcher. My forman could get the staves up to 70 mph coming up the silo and he could unhook them before they got to the top. The staves would free fly the last 6 to 8 foot and I would catch the stave and put it in place. The rope would be on the way down before I would get the stave. Each stave weighed 72 lbs. just like these and I believe there were 72 staves in one round. We could place one round in 4 1/2 minutes. Door frame weighed 150 lbs. and my forman could lift it with one arm. I had to bear hug and hope I did not lose my nuts. Didn't get paid by the hour we got paid by the unit. Also got paid flat rate for an outside ladder, roofs which were a bitch to put on when the wind was blowing. Worked sunup to sundown and the foreman pushed hard. Company bought us breakfast and dinner. Lot of time on the road and company paid our lodging. Definitely hard work. Actually made more money than a lot of other jobs. Plastering the inside would make a man out of anyone. Also at the end we would have to ride a bolsan chair down the outside and swing around to tighten the rings. Each chair was on its own block and tackle and you pulled yourself up and down as needed. Used a claw hammer to hold onto the rings. so help me if you ever did this for a living it would make you appreciate any other job you might get.
@paulboucek40722 жыл бұрын
My summer job was to carry the staves from where the truck dropped it off to the building site (about 100 yards). Job ended when the foreman fell after racing down the silo at the end of the day.
@PaddleDogC52 жыл бұрын
😎 awesome
@robertheinkel62252 жыл бұрын
We had a 20 by 60 stave silo put up. The guy tightening the bands, used pole climbing spikes on his feet to catch the rings, and had a claw hammer in one hand to support him, while wrenching with the other. No safety ropes. I think your method was much safer.
@Darnic-Fab2 жыл бұрын
My father work for a company Called Farm Service that was in Kalamazoo, MI and they built Silos like you did. They pulled them up with a gas engine set up. They were pretty sate of the art s they had a plant and poured their own staves. I have a bunch of pics of the guys and trucks all loaded up with staves. I think they shut down in the mid 60's as steel silos were becoming more popular. Crazy how this popped up on you tube, as I have never done a search or anything online that I can remember for Silos. Very cool to see, and thanks for telling how it was for you doing this work. I also remember it being said there were few jobs you could do that was harder work than building silo's.
@mrlukeplease2 жыл бұрын
Wow, you guys were fast! I never timed a round but it seemed to take about 10 minutes. They also used just one hoist, seems kind of dumb compared to two. We were paid by the hour, just above minimum wage, but worked sunup/sundown six days a week so overtime kicked in. And we stayed in the worst motels/hotels imaginable -- found out later my foreman got a per diem every Monday when we set out, it was based on two squares a day at a typical small town diner, plus a room for every two guys at a place like Holiday Inn. My foreman would cram four of us into a room with one bed and pocket the difference. He would also start out every working day by digging a hole in the silo floor and taking a dump. I spent about half my summer on the Gunite crew, shoveling sand into a hopper and scrambling up and down the hoops tightening the nut. We did not have a Bosun's chair. You just had to hang on. When I started they told me that crews would lose one or two rookies at the start of every season because they'd literally forget to hold on. Or, the guy loading staves on the ground would forget to step back and look up when to guy upstairs would start winching.
@tonyc.45282 жыл бұрын
They are tearing cement staves and Harvestores down around here and using bunks and Agbags.
@three6ohchris2 жыл бұрын
Mr Shirtless Hard Hat is over here knocking em out as fast as they come up... meanwhile baseball cap newbie seems to struggle with every single one of the panels that come up. Not that he isn't working just as hard, but it's easy to see who's done it for a while and who's learning the trade. I think it just takes a while to figure it out the little tricks to the trade.
@neillengel67528 ай бұрын
They were any slower the buzzards would be circling
@JohnSmith-lw2bm2 жыл бұрын
The cows are like hungry ants
@davidgrossman51043 жыл бұрын
These are called stave silos
@connerbrandl51033 жыл бұрын
Now what they gotta do is build the old stone and mortor silos, or the big cement blocked silos, thatd be a video.
@why63793 жыл бұрын
I worked grain industry all my life, we never had this type of silo. I always wondered how they were built. Great video, you educated pry alot of people including me. So thanks
@neillengel67528 ай бұрын
Except they were slower than a couple of grandmas
@gary247523 жыл бұрын
How do you check for plum?
@oldamericaniron57673 жыл бұрын
Judging from the looks of the inside of the staves they look to be used staves. Not common but they sometimes get taken down and moved. I built my above ground swimming pool out of silo staves, way better than factory metal frames.
@gregkoenig92003 жыл бұрын
This is a rebuild. I built new ribstone silos which is what this is and we grouted all the outside joints. They wanted here they are putting all the hoops on as they gp
@douglasweller97092 жыл бұрын
I helped my uncle take one down. We just dropped the blocks into the feed left in the bottom of the hole. Than he hired a crew like these guys to put it back up.
@michael-ki4sr3 жыл бұрын
The best silos when a storm comes thru there usually still standing unlike the metal ones crushed like a pop can
@barnacles624 жыл бұрын
Why does the guy wear a bunk cap, is it going to save his life if he falls on his head?
@mellymel65434 жыл бұрын
watching the cows was also fascinating
@cassidylockard15275 жыл бұрын
What the price of one
@maryannanderson75175 жыл бұрын
I was wondering how tall that silo was and how long it actually took to build it so I was happy to find that information included above. I love seeing them come down and I have watched many of them being taken down, sometimes by machine and sometimes by a man with a sledge hammer, but this was the first one I saw being built. Pretty awesome.
@michaeltarasenkoop23895 жыл бұрын
What are they standing on ?
@LSUfan-mn3oc5 жыл бұрын
Problem another silo
@ExploringCabinsandMines5 жыл бұрын
Good for you, I was dreaming about building one myself.
@switzerblitzer27015 жыл бұрын
I would much rather see silos being built than knocked down. I prefer silos to silage piles, bunkers or bags.
@telosfd6 жыл бұрын
First time i saw how is build!
@OldHoboManYouTube6 жыл бұрын
What if they demolished it soon after.
@RMSLusitania6 жыл бұрын
it looks like... Nearly going to the clouds. What in the world do i see?
@denko59916 жыл бұрын
А если упадет эта башня на коровник?
@pktprotector5 жыл бұрын
the cows will die.
@Natterforme6 жыл бұрын
What building codes did you have to follow to build that high? I understand that there is usually a limit on residential contractors up to a certain height. Was it a commercial crew and could this be converted to a living space?
@infinitebeing10326 жыл бұрын
They still build these things?
@jerrystokes48226 жыл бұрын
Why you build a concrete Silo instead of a Blue Harvest silo?
@jerrystokes48226 жыл бұрын
JJ our neighbor put up two brand new ones last year they are still made. The are made by cst Industries.
@jerrystokes48226 жыл бұрын
JJ I never knew concrete Silo staves one were still being made I knew straight up concrete ones were but not silo staves.
@chooch19954 жыл бұрын
Sure - as Jerry stated - the old Harvestore plant is still going on Harvestore Drive off Highway 23 & Interstate 88 in DeKalb, Illinois - they've got a silo set up in their 'front' yard on display......
@peterhejny3633 жыл бұрын
Price and you can fix an unloader. The blues company has to come in to fix. Big bucks for that
@nickkercheval27043 жыл бұрын
Know as blue tombstones around here
@imonthewinningside82816 жыл бұрын
Got some active cows there.
@Bluehealer1006 жыл бұрын
I grew up working on a dairy farm and never knew how those silos were built!
@HillbillyRednecking6 жыл бұрын
I curious to see how the platform and jib cranes system works!
@neillengel67528 ай бұрын
I have pictures
@sobasicallyimbillcooper45436 жыл бұрын
Is that an Osakis silo?
@mattlf91202 жыл бұрын
The staves look the same, Osakis probably purchased the staves maybe? I know the guy that owned Osakis silo, I'll have to ask him the next time I see him.
@dozer16426 жыл бұрын
Man you talk about good timing with that weather. Roof on with no time to spare. Nice work!
@CavemanCBB6 жыл бұрын
I didn't know that they built them anymore. In my area they are obsolete. I don't know how you could even get the materials to build one. Thanks for the video. You should save it for posteriorty. Never going to see this again.
@stevenbatterman77356 жыл бұрын
CavemanCBB I know of several built and rebuilt in the last few years. Many farms have switched to bunkers and piles as they've gotten larger, but there's still a lot of silos used in Wisconsin. If you want to know more, become a member of "silo junkies" on Facebook. Thanks.
@somethinburnin4 жыл бұрын
@@stevenbatterman7735 Silo Junkies rules! Many great folks on that page. I miss farming. Allot of mennonites and amish here buying useable old silos and relocating them. I noticed Mennonites love Ribstone silos.
@mrlukeplease2 жыл бұрын
@@stevenbatterman7735 Can't find that group.
@user-rn6yc1vh4q6 жыл бұрын
The older man out working the kid .
@raoulcruz44046 жыл бұрын
2:08 Elvis is having a bit of a struggle.
@switzerblitzer27015 жыл бұрын
You funny guy!! Yes, he seems to have an Elvis stance!
@mykecollins32556 жыл бұрын
I watched these italian guys build one of our silos.(80 ft) they were throwing these blocks around like legos..lol I tried to man handle one. I was 12 yr old at the time. Needless to say I stuck to milking cows.