The unloader that was in our silo was a P&D silo unloader. We were up in the silo fixing it all the time. We finally put a tool box on it. My Dad said P&D stood for piss and dribble.
Put a new cable on it. You don't have to fill it up to use it. You have serious groundwater problems. Interior will need to be parged or grouted to make it airtight. That's what the white coating is. No reason that unloader won't work for you just lube it up and turn it on. You will probably have to replace the bearings in it. Just looks like heavy surface rust from years in that wet silo.
Clay made milking parlors too. We used to have one. One of their popular products was parlor doors that opened when you pulled a rope. I think they were bought out by a French company, but I can't remember the name. Wesam a company in Floyd, Iowa sells many aftermarket parts for silo unloaders (chutes, augers, blower housings, etc.), I do not know if they sell parts for Clay unloaders or not, but Connie at ShowEase Inc. in Ephrata, PA could probably find out for you. As far as the inside of the silo goes, it probably needs relined with shotcrete. There are several silo repair outfits around Lancaster, PA that do it, I think they usually advertise in the silo section of the Lancaster Farming newspaper.
My Brother was a Clay dealer in their hayday.......They served the purpose untill he got a Patz dealeship...The doors were called "easy action" installed quite a few of them, the Clay parlor had the cows in a herringbone confirguration facing out from the pit, 44 in from udder to udder .... a Delaval parlor was 38in.... Clay parlors had ss feeders attached to the wall with a feed storage hopper installed between two feed hoppers with an in the attic feed conveyor for filling... wired to a control panel in the pit with feed(pellets or ground) dispencing timers.
In the 70's my brother was a Clay dealer, Milking parlors, grain elevators hog equip, belt feeder. Push button Farming.....Make sure Oil is in gearbox before running, Has a steel worm gear running on a Brass gear...Steel will heat up and wipe out brass gear......Changed many a gearbox, before He got a Patz dealership and clay wound up in the scrap pile......The only thing I think is still produced are the easy action doors
it looks like your liner has broken off.there should be a drain hole for water in the bottom part of the foundation it may be plugged . also it will let out some gases while the corn is fermenting , green corn will have water that will need to drain out.dad has a 20 x 85 concrete silo hasn't been used in a while. miss them day's.
that's been a long time ago i think 50 head all winter we tried to keep about 40 cows milking all time. in the summer we would cut back on cows due to lower milk prices. i think it took some where around 18 to 20 ac. of corn.
I'd put a good layer of sand in the bottom for drainage. I'd also gunnite or shotcrete the inside for strength and safety. I don't know anything about Clay so it may be hard to find parts. We had 3 silos with Silo-Matics in them. You might want to attend farm auctions and see if you can get a newer/better unloader and cable/winch that has been actually used in the last couple of years. They go cheap around here. As far as keeping up with spoilage, if You're feeding out of it every day I don't think it's an issue. If we left a silo for a bit, the top layer would be only dried out some. Shouldn't be a problem especially in the winter when it's cold.
+ghorner11 thanks, yea unloaders, gutter cleaners, tmr mixers all seem to go cheap at auctions. Same with used gates, headlocks. Calf hutches seem to bring money.
It's the same here on gates (I'm in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada area) - people bid them up so high they pay more than they would for brand new ones. It's crazy! Note I took a look at your video from the top of the silo - be careful if you get the platform down as ours had a solid outer frame that the solid platform itself would swing down into it. I couldn't see an outer frame in your video so what does it sit on when it does swing down? Don't want to see a video of you falling through it.
+kim culver as far as I was told, it was half full when they had sale. I guess they sold the remaining silage at the sale. Whoever got it cleaned it out good.
PA Farms I can understand that personally I think bunks keep better as well you just have to pack it well we actually used our first bunk on a pad outside our shop we've recouped our money just in time using the blower maintainence on the silo and almost no spoilage the best thing to me is it's super easy to unload I'm almost the youngest so it was always me in the silo with a set of forks!!! Love the videos though!!
Theres no bunker thats gonna keep feed like an actual pour concrete silo this is blocks not poured. Ive talked to many farmers building concrete silos the last 10 years theyll tell you the feed is better out of our silos then anything else. Sollenberger silos outa chambersburg pa.
The unloader that was in our silo was a P&D silo unloader. We were up in the silo fixing it all the time. We finally put a tool box on it. My Dad said P&D stood for piss and dribble.
Put a new cable on it. You don't have to fill it up to use it. You have serious groundwater problems. Interior will need to be parged or grouted to make it airtight. That's what the white coating is. No reason that unloader won't work for you just lube it up and turn it on. You will probably have to replace the bearings in it. Just looks like heavy surface rust from years in that wet silo.
Clay made milking parlors too. We used to have one. One of their popular products was parlor doors that opened when you pulled a rope. I think they were bought out by a French company, but I can't remember the name. Wesam a company in Floyd, Iowa sells many aftermarket parts for silo unloaders (chutes, augers, blower housings, etc.), I do not know if they sell parts for Clay unloaders or not, but Connie at ShowEase Inc. in Ephrata, PA could probably find out for you. As far as the inside of the silo goes, it probably needs relined with shotcrete. There are several silo repair outfits around Lancaster, PA that do it, I think they usually advertise in the silo section of the Lancaster Farming newspaper.
Martin England I just found the history of clay. A Canadian company called freeman bought clay. Then Unverferth bought freeman.
My Brother was a Clay dealer in their hayday.......They served the purpose untill he got a Patz dealeship...The doors were called "easy action" installed quite a few of them, the Clay parlor had the cows in a herringbone confirguration facing out from the pit, 44 in from udder to udder .... a Delaval parlor was 38in.... Clay parlors had ss feeders attached to the wall with a feed storage hopper installed between two feed hoppers with an in the attic feed conveyor for filling... wired to a control panel in the pit with feed(pellets or ground) dispencing timers.
In the 70's my brother was a Clay dealer, Milking parlors, grain elevators hog equip, belt feeder. Push button Farming.....Make sure Oil is in gearbox before running, Has a steel worm gear running on a Brass gear...Steel will heat up and wipe out brass gear......Changed many a gearbox, before He got a Patz dealership and clay wound up in the scrap pile......The only thing I think is still produced are the easy action doors
+David Goethe xxx yea I found a website that had the history of clay. Pretty neat stuff. Thanks for watching
The holes are to lit the juices flow out of the silo after nit is filled.
The rope on that junction box is to turn the unloader on or off while your up in the silo.
it looks like your liner has broken off.there should be a drain hole for water in the bottom part of the foundation it may be plugged . also it will let out some gases while the corn is fermenting , green corn will have water that will need to drain out.dad has a 20 x 85 concrete silo hasn't been used in a while. miss them day's.
+piper jones that sounds like it would hold a lot of silage. How many cows were fed out of it?
that's been a long time ago i think 50 head all winter we tried to keep about 40 cows milking all time. in the summer we would cut back on cows due to lower milk prices. i think it took some where around 18 to 20 ac. of corn.
I'd put a good layer of sand in the bottom for drainage. I'd also gunnite or shotcrete the inside for strength and safety. I don't know anything about Clay so it may be hard to find parts. We had 3 silos with Silo-Matics in them. You might want to attend farm auctions and see if you can get a newer/better unloader and cable/winch that has been actually used in the last couple of years. They go cheap around here. As far as keeping up with spoilage, if You're feeding out of it every day I don't think it's an issue. If we left a silo for a bit, the top layer would be only dried out some. Shouldn't be a problem especially in the winter when it's cold.
+ghorner11 thanks, yea unloaders, gutter cleaners, tmr mixers all seem to go cheap at auctions. Same with used gates, headlocks. Calf hutches seem to bring money.
It's the same here on gates (I'm in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada area) - people bid them up so high they pay more than they would for brand new ones. It's crazy! Note I took a look at your video from the top of the silo - be careful if you get the platform down as ours had a solid outer frame that the solid platform itself would swing down into it. I couldn't see an outer frame in your video so what does it sit on when it does swing down? Don't want to see a video of you falling through it.
You should be able to pick up a used unloader at a reasonable price since the dairy industry is dying and what is left are using bunks or bags.
Amazing that it is that clean inside
+kim culver as far as I was told, it was half full when they had sale. I guess they sold the remaining silage at the sale. Whoever got it cleaned it out good.
Check on Shotcrete toparge the inside
We tore our last silo down last year! Personally I think the bunks and Pits work better if you have them built correctly
+Gafarmer7410 yea I would love to have a bunk. Trying to use what’s here for the time being.
PA Farms I can understand that personally I think bunks keep better as well you just have to pack it well we actually used our first bunk on a pad outside our shop we've recouped our money just in time using the blower maintainence on the silo and almost no spoilage the best thing to me is it's super easy to unload I'm almost the youngest so it was always me in the silo with a set of forks!!! Love the videos though!!
Theres no bunker thats gonna keep feed like an actual pour concrete silo this is blocks not poured. Ive talked to many farmers building concrete silos the last 10 years theyll tell you the feed is better out of our silos then anything else. Sollenberger silos outa chambersburg pa.
well if all else fails turn it into a missile silo right? trump would pay
Did you ever end up using the silo
Not yet, still didn’t decide if I’m getting cattle
@@PAFarms 4 years later still not using it??
@@haydendoucet8716 As a low-budget farming has it;
"To do nothing, costs nothing."