Building a 16x85 concrete stave silo

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2022
  • An old neighboring silo was tore down and moved to a new farm. The new silo will be a 16x85.

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  • @scottlabant8406
    @scottlabant8406 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, when younger spend every summer at a dairy farm in Loysville. One day I going to go back and check it out.

  • @larrykluckoutdoors8227
    @larrykluckoutdoors8227 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nice video, I remember as a kid watching them build our silos on our farm

  • @gerrygeibel6735
    @gerrygeibel6735 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We purchased silo scaffolding years back. Still own it. tore down and put up several silos it was a life experience

  • @scottrayhons2537
    @scottrayhons2537 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video to watch these hard working people! Thank you for posting this! In Iowa most silos are now tombstones standing not used. No sale barns or farm stores hardly left here. Fleet Farm has mostly peanut brittle and m&m's for farm supplies. My tractor dont run on either one.

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think the silo that was tore down hasn't been used since the late 80's. Dairy buyout program. Sad to think when you drive down the road, all the empty silo used to store feed for dairy cows. Less farms more cows per farm. Glad to say that my valley is still predominantly agriculture though

  • @shakes7333
    @shakes7333 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You have the best men on the job!

  • @betheckert817
    @betheckert817 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very cool, Dad will really like to see this!

  • @paulpeters5199
    @paulpeters5199 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That’s probably the fastest winch I’ve ever seen

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Every 12 seconds they were pulling a block up 80 feet

  • @jeffdymarczyk4413
    @jeffdymarczyk4413 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great job 👏

  • @greggergen9104
    @greggergen9104 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow they even got the checkered stave colors right on the top.

  • @kylerayk
    @kylerayk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Very cool video! Looks easy when you have the right equipment and helpers. I'm glad to see the old stave silos being reused and not just destroyed.

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The old silos were not used since the 80's

  • @WindWalkerDrones
    @WindWalkerDrones ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pretty cool. I was just watching the Mennonites here doing this and a barn raising. Rebuilding one there farms after a fire.

  • @macncheesejayden
    @macncheesejayden ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice video! This is Cleason's nephew, by the way.

  • @doncc6080
    @doncc6080 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great to see the old silo moved by of course the Amish. Wish video was longer,

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This took place about 4 mile from me. Wish I could have gotten the whole process myself. Roof, chute etc.

  • @alamjahangir1043
    @alamjahangir1043 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice

  • @danmaggert7119
    @danmaggert7119 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    masters at there craft

  • @dubuque1
    @dubuque1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Pretty impressive workers, but Amish/Mennonites always have been. That is one awesome winch :)

  • @cementer7665
    @cementer7665 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I would like to see how the dome was added.

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I would have liked to film the entire process but the farm is 4 miles from me and I have farming to do myself 😄

  • @billyraub8197
    @billyraub8197 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That breaks the rules of 1 foot across to 3 feet up by a whole lot.

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yes it does! I'm not why he decided on this size. Our farm has had 2 16x70's for years

  • @verdigrishunts6165
    @verdigrishunts6165 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    At 3:24 they placed the 2nd half of a broken piece up.

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I guess they figured it wouldn't hurt anything at the top of the silo. If it wasn't painted white, they probably would not have used it.

  • @namarhodge568
    @namarhodge568 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really enjoyed this video. The crane system is a very fascinating setup. I would love to see how you moved the platform up each level and how it was secured. No doubt, probably trade secretes. Will the platform base stay as part of the upper structure?

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They keep adding a center pole as they move up the silo. Once at the top, they plaster the inside with concrete and move back down. A lot of steps that I did not film.

    • @namarhodge568
      @namarhodge568 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@brentmcmillen8829 Thanks for the reply Mr. Brent. In growing up dad owned a welding shop. He did the same types of work as Mr. Issac on his IC WELD channel. We were in big farming country and I learned a lot working with him and working on the many farms. I developed a life long curiosity of how things work and how things are put together. Near Chattanooga TN, there is a civil war memorial built with a round tower. The deric crane was in the center similar to what you use, but the lifting line was mule drawn by being threaded down the center post and out the bottom. In my studying the deric crane has been the most useful construction tool throught history. You have a very interesting setup. Thanks, somutch for the video.

    • @namarhodge568
      @namarhodge568 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@brentmcmillen8829 I watched the video again and see the center post being added at near the beginning, and lifting the platform. I missed this part the first two times I watched.

    • @jeffreymartin9558
      @jeffreymartin9558 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those workers are Pike Mennonites. Is that John Sensenig's crew?

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't know@@jeffreymartin9558

  • @shakey2634
    @shakey2634 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And now TH-cam is full of videos of these being knocked down.

  • @karlherzog3979
    @karlherzog3979 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We have a 16 by 70 and I thought that was pretty tall for how narrow it is.

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We have 2 16x70's.

    • @billyraub8197
      @billyraub8197 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is the rule of thumb is 1 foot across to 3 feet up. So 48 feet was the standard size you probably could go up 12 more feet in my opinion making it 60 feet

    • @don66hotrod94
      @don66hotrod94 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There were quite a few 14 x 70 silos for High Moisture Ear Corn here in WI.

  • @kirkpennell3028
    @kirkpennell3028 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wish you would have showed the concrete pad construction. I'm splitting one of my silos in half and I'm looking for information about pad diamentions. Thanks any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This was a farm 4 miles from our farm. These silos just have a footer under them that the concrete block set on top of. They are possibly three feet deep if I remember correctly from when we built one at our farm. About 2 ft wide with nothing in the center.

  • @user-ub5gx7ze3f
    @user-ub5gx7ze3f 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I did think 16 × 85 was engineering possibly how much concrete is in foundation???

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't know. It is down the road from me.

  • @billyebensberger9109
    @billyebensberger9109 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where was this built?

  • @snydedon9636
    @snydedon9636 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Too bad we weren’t shown the finished product.

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This silo was built Oct. 2022. The amish crew wanted the silo staves(blocks) powerwashed before the silo was rebuilt. The owner of the farm was short on help at the time. The builders brought in a hi lift in November and powerwashed it after it was built.. The owner also talked them into washing his other two concrete silos. I was going to film that and I crashed my drone that morning flying at home!

    • @snydedon9636
      @snydedon9636 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brentmcmillen8829 thanks for the additional info.

  • @sharonfieber6458
    @sharonfieber6458 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amish fall protection harness!

  • @randymagnum143
    @randymagnum143 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you had to have ironworers erect it, it still wouldn't be up. Probably they'd still be drunk and asleep.

    • @larrywarolin7215
      @larrywarolin7215 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They would be fighting each other over various things at different stages. Things like who's a better boss, pickles, sisters, flags and Christmas trees. Then they would pick up all the spare pieces that looked important and head back to the bar.

  • @ronblack7870
    @ronblack7870 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    these guys are mennonites so not as strict as amish so can use power tools like the winch and an air hammer.

    • @brentmcmillen8829
      @brentmcmillen8829  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think these guys are Amish. There are many different sects in this area. There are some mennonites that don't drive cars and run tractors on steel wheels. The Amish in this area use power tools.

  • @redgreen6505
    @redgreen6505 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I built rib stone silos in the early 70s.things haven't much.