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.
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.
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
Can anyone 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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
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!
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.
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.
