Cement Stave Silo Removal

[@WelkerFarms]

Sad to see those land marks go but completely understand. Times change operations. Good video Ryan!

[@BrycePolhamus]

It is very sad to see the silo go, but they are recycling it, it would be cool to push it over but this way is better.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

The silo that I have himoisture corn in was constructed from 2 silos that we had on another farm and it was put up in 2012.I wish I had a drone back then,I didn’t get any video of it going up.That was great to have recorded that.

[@MatthewHoag77]

This is refreshing to see a purposeful tear-down rather than an explosive demolition. Thanks for the footage!

[@matthewbradley5570]

I think it’s awesome that it is being rebuilt on a different farm. I think it’s better to give it new life and use instead of letting it waste away. It’s incredible how fast they got that torn apart and they system they used. Awesome video!

[@hoophil]

I'm so glad you found someone to reuse the silo. So many people just knock them down and scrap them. Thanks for recording the demolition and sharing it with us. Those sure a some hard working people!

[@SomeGuyFromOttawa]

So cool that it is being repurposed. That is recycling at it’s finest. If you do find it next summer or whenever it gets rebuilt. Please post pictures.

[@WBOS72]

I agree on all counts. Thanks for sharing this.

[@glenkoopman7347]

Be neat to see it getting rebuilt

[@michaelmactavish1728]

@@glenkoopman7347 amish guys knows how to build and taking down in a tidy ways not smashing with tractors

[@travisdavis3974]

That's being green

[@athumblessman]

It was great to see the process of "demolition" on one of these. Never seen one taken apart before. Great footage as always!

[@Steelrailbearing]

I think this is one heck of a video. The fact that you saved it from demolition is so cool. I did not expect this result after the IG tease during the week. It would be interesting to see it again after reassembly. Nice work with the video, truly one of the more interesting in a long time.

[@argee55]

So glad to see the silo being rebuilt.

[@FoodwaysDistribution]

Respect for the Amish, they are hard workers.

[@scruffy6151]

Amish crew working on the silo tear down. They have a very good work ethic.

[@billupstateny9151]

Disagree, we have large population of both communities here, those folks are Amish, and the core, yes core differences are not so great. Even between horse/buggy and Horning Mennonites, core values are the same.

[@zeusmacafee5097]

They were Amish. Greatest house builders ever. Only people well ever have work on our house. Fast and good

[@michaelc9128]

I remember driving a few years back thru muscoda, Wisconsin and seeing Amish/Mennonite farms and the young kids walking around

[@bsfoutdoors8381]

@@boggindeepfuggum6916 as a mennonite I can say your both wrong yes they are amish. And I'm not sure were you got the clean shaven from but that is incredibly wrong

[@johnallen310]

I was thinking WOW no hard hats, but I guess concrete falling that far and hits you straw hats work just as good!

[@lindabingham394]

hard hats wont maqke a difference at that height?

[@greggergen9104]

@@lindabingham394 That was John's point.

[@davidfalconer1639]

Haymish

[@markmonaghan2309]

Just WOW .

[@mytock]

What a great video. My uncle and I did this a few years ago. Took our neighbors silo down and put it up at our farm to replace our old wooden one. It was a lot of hard work. Also rebuilt the unloader out of parts from 3 local farms. Everyone was happy to see everything being put back in use.

[@woollyacres]

It would be neat if you could get some footage of them rebuilding it.

[@SomeGuyFromOttawa]

@Weaver Cattle Company Love to see them throw those blocks up 70 feet in the air!! lol

[@johnmills186]

I admire what you all do on the farms. Always move forward. Youthful enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. I have been farming for nearly 50 years and this will be my last harvest Time for someone else to take over.

[@macfarms]

I think it would be a hard day seeing one of our stave silos coming down. Just seems like such a iconic part of the farm.

[@Adam_Poirier]

Man when you said “take it down” I was expecting to see you knock it down like the videos you see online where guys chop it down like a tree by breaking out sections with a sledgehammer. I was pleasantly surprised to see that you took it all apart without destroying it. That’s a beautiful silo and it will probably serve someone else well someday. Great video Ryan

[@timmattison6553]

Great video Ryan. Those guys certainly aren't afraid of work. See ya on the next 1

[@switzerblitzer2701]

The men did a great job of saving the staves, the rings, chute, filler pipe and all. Glad to see it will be repurposed. Nice video, Ryan.

[@whowardpowered]

We are glad to see your silo will be put to good use and not just demolished. We recently had a smaller silo removed by demolition, it had survived a tornado but all the tension bands were loose and the safety of the unit was in question. In our area there was no known practical alternative to implosion by track hoe.

[@jamiemiller6156]

Very cool video. It is always sad to see history disappear, but change seems to be constant.

[@IH100]

Great video! Glad to see that your silo is getting re built and not just getting torn down.

[@lynnmoore2664]

That's really nice that they can rebuild it elsewhere rather than just trash it. Really nice video showing how to take down a cement silo.This is such a very awesome channel to watch. Ryan is such a great creator and editor of his videos. Thats topped off with excellent farming content that can be enjoyed by farmerx & nonfarmers alike imho. For myself I really enjoy seeing what goes on in farming through Ryan.Then hearing what all that is involved in farming through Travis.Just makes for a win win situation. Thanks guys for all the time & effort you put into these videos. Have a great weekend.

[@twothreebravo]

So over the weekend I was driving around upstate NY admiring many of theirabandonded/disused cement stave silos and wondering why no one bothers to take them down. Amazing timing

[@jenncox2642]

Great video. So cool that it is getting re purposed and gets to live on. It seems like stuff on the farm gets used and reused until it pretty much has disintegrated.

[@timbarrett5313]

I spent a summer doing this when 18. Hard satisfying dangerous work. Will make a monster of you!

[@northstar2007]

How cool! it's really nice one that you get the silo down you wanted but the fact that it's going somewhere there's a need is just a bonus!

[@jordanroberts1519]

Ryan, I mentioned this a while back, but thought I'd remind you if you hadn't already planned on doing it. You and Travis should do a voiceover flyover of the farms and go through your 'plans' for the future. Building placement, pasture/field layout, crop/livestock areas, etc. Just to give the audience some anticipation of things that might come true one day. Could be an interesting video.

[@Tom_cat77]

Interesting video. How did you find them to do the demo? We may be needing one soon.

[@jimbob9714]

Based on only a couple of stories, I am convinced Ryan had the coolest Grandmother ever. "Come on boys, lets go watch them collapse the old silo by the barn". A few minutes later: "Run boys run away"

[@br927]

At least you have a patz barn cleaner!! Very interesting! I took a few silos down myself, Wooden Unadillas for the lumber! and we also had 2 16x60 concrete stave

[@mouscj3]

Great Video... It was really interesting to watch how they disassembled it... And you know that when it was erected on the farm it took a heck of a long time to do so with having to use some kind of Powered device to raise each concrete stave... Now your Dad should Buy a nice Pole Barn structure for storing Round Hay Bales primarily... Plus store equipment when the hay bales are gone, or perhaps if its built big enough it can do both... Thanx for doing what you do... Thanx for being a Farmer and... Thanx for sharing...

[@jerryfowler4960]

Thanks for sharing. I'm nearly 80, and I've never seen a silo come down.

[@bluemtnsman]

Way cool process. Quite pleased it's being rebuilt elsewhere. Well done lads.

[@dimduk]

Farming changes so farms change, this was a fun video to watch. Everyone profits.

[@robertg.9964]

Breaking a sweat sitting here in my office chair watching the Amish work. They are true army ants when it comes to working as a group.

[@billyraub8197]

How much did it cost you or did they do it for the silo

[@rogerburkholder7524]

We were glad that we didn't have to pay them to remove them. There is no value here for them or the Harvestores standing.

[@SlipShodBob]

Looks a lot safer and a by far less dusty way of taking it down than driving the JCB into it. You should try and find some videos of Fred Dibnah and how he not only used to climb the old brick chimney stacks but how he used to bring them down without any explosives just holes wooden staves and a bonfire, he didn't have a fancy button but he had a couple of oily rags on a stick

[@jamiemiller6156]

I checked Dibnah out after seeing a comment from OLF. Fascinating videos from a one of a kind guy.

[@SlipShodBob]

@@jamiemiller6156 we used to watch his programs growing he was definitely one of a kind to sit on the top of a chimney over well over a 100ft with no harness on enjoying the view as he had his lunch after climbing up wooden ladders only lashed on with rope and wedges it was awe inspiring watching then and now

[@davecurtis2970]

Looks like there is no mortar between the blocks. Fascinating to see this process. Makes me wonder what the building process was like. Also curious about how far away the block was made from your farm, and how it was transported there?

[@davidwestervelt6050]

I think the feed out system for the silos is really nice. We always had to shovel off a cart. I had never seen a feed out system like that. It seemed really nice being hands free basically. hopefully you can incorporate something like it in the new vision. I liked the idea of not so much shoveling lol

[@hughwhaley3179]

Nice to see it being reused great video thanks for sharing Ryan 👍👍🚜

[@WilliamTMusil]

So cool. I hope one day to see footage of the re-purposed silo in it's new location.

[@russse2793]

Some excellent footage watching it fall in slow motion. Thank you for sharing. God Bless from Phoenix.

[@justinbrendel7357]

Thanks for the history lesson on the silo invention. Funny not knowing the history from the area you live in. Lived in McHenry county IL for 20 yrs an worked on a dairy farm in the late 80s early 90s as a young teenager. Thanks for the videos there great.

[@14Marathons]

Awesome video, Ryan. That is very cool that the silo was repurposed since it was in good shape....quite an interesting operation...Thanks for the video and your channel.

[@leol1682]

Thanks Ryan for the video on the silo removal .

[@jw8848]

I'm so glad someone else's able to use it. It's in such great shape and would have been such a shame to have destroyed it. How long did it take for them to take it down?

[@deancook6832]

We had an old silo taken down in the exact same manner on my farm probably 45-50 years ago. I don't remember exactly when but I was a young boy at the time. I just removed the foundation a few years ago and there are still chunks of the broken staves around the farm.

[@johngriswold]

Did they charge to remove, or did they just get the silo? Thanks for feeding us.

[@Rocketman88002]

I'm glad it's someone else on the ground instead of me! I couldn't keep up with the fellas up on top.

[@lamarjohnson3992]

Congratulations on the silo removal!

[@jodimiller7931]

we have a lot of Amish were I live In Ohio and they use these old silos, we see them rebuild um all the time. Well done on letting them re-purpose this one!

[@brianhrobsky9200]

That was a awesome video. Great to see it will reach for the sky again one day

[@captainmorgan757]

Did you mention the silos builder and the year that it was erected? It looks to be a Madison Silo Company silo. Great video!

[@donmcmannamy3409]

Perfectly good silo. If you don't need it sell it or give it away to be reassembled on a different farm that needs one

[@tonyburelle6633]

Pretty cool, all our wood silos we just tore down helluva mess for sure, imagine whole lot more with concrete, glad to hear it's being rebuilt, should be cool to see, thanks for sharing

[@thedonleroy]

It's good to hear that it's going to be rebuilt. It's a good thing when things can be reused.

[@brandoncarter8684]

That was more entertaining to watch that just knocking it down!..... never seen that done before.. its awesome it's getting a second life...

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

Maybe I missed it, but .... How is the round working platform supported? It always seems to be at the height the men are working to remove the staves and throw them down. Is there some kind of support mechanism that attaches to the remaining staves? How did the platform get to the top before the dismantling operation began? We built a concrete stave silo on our farm around 1950. It was 12X36, considered pretty large for our area, for the time. It replaced two 8X30 wooden stave silos. It went up in about a day, ... another day to finish off the top, tighten the bands a final time, and getting the doors and chute in place. I think each stave weight about 80#. These look similar in size. How much did yours weigh? The 12X36 silo still stands, but has not been used in 30 years. Harvistor-like silos were not yet available. All wooden ones were being replaced with concrete staves. The wooden staves were basic 2X4 size, 7-12 feet long, tongue/groove top and bottom, part-circle tongue on the edges, all clear wood, well preserved.

[@rogerburkholder7524]

The platform is on a pole in the silo. A motor or winch raises it and a section of pole is added as it goes up and a section of pole is removed as they work back down.

[@rightsideofthegrass8114]

@@rogerburkholder7524 Thanks. I saw the pole in the center, but not understand it is sitting on a foundation at the bottom and was holding up the platform. Makes good sense.

[@tammypupp7190]

Could you tell me who took the silo down? I would like to get information on getting this done or getting the equipment to get this done on a silo.

[@gregkortbein5108]

That was cool. I have seen a couple of silos built in the 80’s. Just the opposite way, had scaffolding like that but a 30 horse motor on the winch to pull the staves up. Must be a Madison silo by the looks of the staves. I took a video at the time on VHS Tape. No drone

[@rogerburkholder7524]

We had our 2 Madison silos along with 2 others in our neighborhood taken down the same way. They rebuilt 2 bigger ones out of the 4 they took down. We are in NC Ohio. The guys on top whistled before they dropped each stave.

[@rexpimplemyer3839]

That was pretty awesome to watch. I wondered how that was done. I wanted to re-purpose a brown silo into a spiral stair/battlement for an English Tudor style home but didn't know if it was possible. Looks like it is. Thanks for the view and inspiration.

[@mikek9822]

how big this silo? how long it take them to tear down? very good video.

[@michael931]

He said it was 18x70. I think that video was one days work. So maybe 3 days all together.

[@fitzieindoorsoutdoorsadventure]

How many day did they take to down that soil? I really love this video

[@dwightkuster8249]

2

[@zet0korp]

The platform they are standing on inside the silo, how does that work?

[@markallen3293]

My father Richard, RIP, bought a Hanson Silo from Lake Lillian MN., 60ft in the 70's and I watched those boys put of that stave silo in 3 days. The tornado in 1998 took it down in 2 minutes, along with 3/4 of Comfrey, MN..

[@kb7722]

So how does that work out? They take it down for free and they get the material? Or does money change hands one way or the other?

[@ernestdougherty3162]

Great video Ryan definitely refurbishing The Silo is a plus that's just great now it'll set on somebody else's farm that can use it definitely ask him if you can come check it out next summer so we can see what it looks like after he puts it back up if it looks just as good as it did on your farm I bet not great video y'all be safe

[@tanneryanna1017]

Hey Ryan I live in Belmont wi it's 7 miles from Platteville and Every time we are in potosi I look for your truck I seen you outside of Platteville driving please get back to me if you have time!!

[@HowFarmsWork]

Hey Tanner!

[@tanneryanna1017]

Thanks Ryan appreciate it also have been to Arthur looking forward to see the silo in it's new home

[@Lilnailbgr]

This was much cooler than just tearing it apart.

[@camerongrayson999]

Hi Ryan, love the videos. As a 5 generation farmer in australia it’s great to see these videos and see how you go about your operation. Do you or anyone know where you go the music for this video. Absolutely love the first song. Great videos, keep up the great work

[@patkelly7999]

Nice video Ryan, gone but will never be forgotten now:):)

[@josephmathers3830]

Brings back some good memories I hauled them silos back in 1988 for a company Golden Hoop silo out of Riverdale Michigan

[@danielsweeney6742]

I'm glad to see the silo was repurposed. I have seen people make an old cement silos into a high top decks with a spiral staircase up inside to the top.

[@youngillinoisan4270]

2:03 yup, the first farm silo was built in spring grove Illinois, one town over from me, The first one was actually made of wood and was unfortunately torn down quite a while ago, But the inventor used to build silos for people And in McHenry county you’ll commonly see concrete silos with concrete diamonds on top of them, that was his signature and that’s how you could tell he built it. There were usually also metal railings on top but not all the way around. Also sometimes people will take the diamonds off the top but you can still usually tell it was built by him just by the way it looks if you’ve seen a couple other diamond tops.

[@stanhensley3082]

Taking down a silo this way is very hard work 😓.Crew did a very good job 👏.Not that many broken staves.

[@smcox1991]

“And at this point I’m too afraid to ask” 😂🤣😂 Kind of like my neighbors that have lived by me for three or four years and I don’t remember their names 😂

[@generationll]

Interesting to see this silo come down Ryan.

[@Msradell]

Do you still use the Harvestore silos? I'm assuming those would be worth quite a bit to someone.

[@jimrankin2583]

We had a tornado come through and knock the top 40’ off 3 20X70 silos that were empty. Also it stripped the ladder and cage, the chute and roof off of two other larger silos that were full next to the others during the Super outbreak of April 27, 2011 here in Alabama. Hired probably the same crew out of Indiana to come get us back going. We built back a single 24X80 but had to go get staves from some better silos in the neighborhood because the remaining ones were in poor shape. Those guys didn’t use the scaffold inside when taking down. They just climbed around the top of the wall loosening the bands and dropping the staves as they went around. I made a couple “stirrups” to hang on the wall to give them a place to put a foot down, but they didn’t use them much. Amazing to see it done.

[@derrick9635]

Great video . Anyone know the music at the start ? Amazing.

[@scottreasoner6126]

Glad you saved it. My dad used to build them when he was younger.

[@nielsdepraeter1879]

Would it be able to demo a telehandler, I think a little one would be theb best option for you instead of a skidsteer, It's also compact, it had a telescopic boom bigger then the teleskid, It's more stable and it is great for pulling trailers with bales

[@afarmerslife992]

@Howfarmswork if you don't do dairy anymore what do you do now??

[@craigmiller5372]

Cool video. So it was all done in one day?

[@casycasy5199]

did they take it for free. did you have to pay them to remove it ?

[@scottodonahoe9505]

I can guarantee that if you gave it to them for free if something burns down on your farm an army will show up and rebuild it in a couple days no charge !

[@raykrv6a]

Pretty cool how they took it down. Can't believe they didn't use any kind of safety harness that high up.

[@gnodoubtfan1]

Can you get a 8 row head and 20 foot bean head for harvest this year

[@nicholas5623]

nah id rather watch them take it apart in such a way they can rebuild it, way more fascinating for me.

[@DW-bo3qw]

We have a couple old stave silos that aren’t being used any more. We are looking into removal options, what was the cost to have it taken down like this?

[@ouarkie]

Ryan that was cool. How long did it take them to do the work? Thanks for posting.

[@oldtimeengineer26]

I hope you can show us it rebuilt when it is done

[@dwaynemurphy814]

They are some hard working people and smart at it.

[@johnstoffel5885]

I think this is fantastic. Now that is recycling that I can fully support.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Those silo hoops make really great rebar if not needed for a silo re-erection! Thanks for the great video, Ryan! I never saw that way of a take down before! That single-pole scaffolding with the gantry crane too is quite ingenious, not to mention the sand on the ground! Those guys stacking the pallets are doing the very definition of back-breaking work! If you had a flatbed trailer, you could haul them for them with Big Red :)

[@otintc]

Do you have any idea what year the silo was erected ? I only ask because my dad back in his younger days work for Rochester Silo and went all over WI , IA , and MN building silos.

[@reapinglily]

Butch G, I'm in Ft. Madison, IA, and we're bringing down our silo tonight. I'll ask my brother when it was built.

[@janbuikema8941]

those Amish men ..did a good job there!!!

[@eosjoe565]

How much does each of those staves weigh?

[@davidmartens7253]

Those guys are Amish, I’m a Mennonite and we’re more like any other people in the United States, the Amish are sure unique

[@michaelhansen5555]

Ryan, I am a city kid I don't know the difference between the concrete silo you took down, the blue harvesters that you still have and the grain bins. Why would you have one over the other? Why didn't you just store corn in the silo like you do in a bin? If you could cover this in a video sometime that would be great. Thanks