Dont miss doing that, the 4 we had were inside a feed room shed, so never had to deal with the weather when we had problems with them.

I worked for Fox Valley Harvestore in the 70s. I did erection and service work. A very interesting job.

After all these years, they still pull those unloaders by hand..? Lol.. I always loved watching the guys pull those and work on them when I was a kid..

Much respect for these guys its hard work im currently working on them suck when they fight you on the way out or lift floor plates

He is a serviceman, it's different talking to someone than to a camera.

Blue Tombstones. They mark every dead farm.

As I was saying,.... I long armed one of our unloaders today. The job takes about 2 - 3 hours. Maybe less if someone helps :) Thanks for the video!

We had a electric winch we used to pull them in and out. ALot easier. But it did suck when the cone fell in on inself. Only happened a couple time in 3 years.

I'm glad I only use a harvestore for HMC, I much prefer two 20' by 80' cement silos for haylage. There are around a dozen new harvestores for silage in my area in the last year, I personally don't see the attraction.

This is an example of why most of these were abandoned. a tractor and bunker is much more economical that this.

My grandfather just bought a neighboring farm, those blue tubes helped drive the previous owner out of business.

looks like quite a job

I am just south of you in the Quad Cities. Love the Potosi Brewing Co.

so these silos get emptied from the bottom and the marerial slides down?

We use a proper set of installation rails in the UK not balanced on old milk churns,cutter chain looks bit worn by the way its behaving,more proffesional to use the sides of the door frame and wrap the winch right round the machine for a straighter pull,also avoids the part where it grabs hold and walks in nearly grabbing the cable.38 years of doing the job.

i almost bought one of the big blue tubes when i was in dairy biz ,Good way for small farmer to feed but hard to pay for it.

Any one watching in 2020

This at Travis's place?

Why do you want a cone in the silo anyway?

Was that grandpa ?