Things are looking up here in Central NY.

A local farmer sold out about 20 years ago. The Buyer,( out of state) bought it. He also bought another dairy farm in the township, also, which is still operational and doing well. This farm 1200A --900 tillable, was finally sold to a BTO farmer out of Maryland. The buildings were falling in and the tilable land was just cropped by the other farm, and there was no long term plan to maintain the crop land since it could be sold at any time.
The new owner, a young fellow who went to school here with my son, married into the Maryland BTO family. Crop land there is becoming non existant.
Keith came in here this spring and started clearing fence rows and tareing down the deteriorating buildings.
He notilled corn and beans on every acer he could get into with the planter, and spent countless hrs. in the sprayer putting down pre emergent herbicides and insecticides, and then post emergent weed,and insect control, and fertilizer. He has the best looking corn and beans around, grown on neglected ground.
About two weeks ago they put up the 36x50 grain storage unit, Todat the Leg started riseing. It looks to be atleast 100' tall, as the 20x70' Harvestore silos are dwarfed buy it. They were shelled corn units, and will be utilized.
the 18x50 concrete stave silo is suppose to be sold.
I can't waight till the local "tree hugger society" sees the leg tomarrow. They fought against the Cell tower on the hill behind it, that you can see in the third pic..
Pics. were taken from my yard, about a quarter mile away.
Loren, the Acg.

That's the kind of progress I like to see.

Loren,
Why does that run up so much higher than the storage bin? Is it so they have the option of putting in other bins later and 'branch off the high part to feed the other units? We have units like that around here but I have never been around them much.

There used to be over 100 dairy farms in the little county where I live, now there are less than five. The piedmont area of North Carolina.

Garry

I'm glad to see someone doing OK in central NY. In my opinion - this state is so screwed up it's all downhill from here. Andrew Cuomo is finalizing the destruction that his daddy started years back . . . in one of the most beautiful states in the contiguous USA.

Just in the past 5 years - some of the inane new laws that have been put in place and I'm talking NY State statutes and not local laws.

#1 No open brush burning without a permit (or if a certified farmer).

#2 No guns that might be interpreted as "assault weapons" even though there is no distinct definition of what they actually are.

#3 No guns of any kind with more then 7 rounds of ammo. Not even a .22 target rifle loaded with shorts or CB caps.

#4 No ammo purchased on-line and shipped of any kind.

#5 No more then one unregistered motor-vehicle per property in the entire state if not a business. Snow plow trucks are exempted.

#6 Everyone with a motor boat MUST get state training to legally use the boat. Even if you're 60 years old with 40 years of trouble-free boating experience.

#7 Nobody can transport firewood on any public road in New York without proper NY state paperwork showing the origin and destination of that wood. Technically, if I am crossing the road from one property to another - that I both own - with firewood and no paperwork - I am in violation of the law.

#8 Slingshots with wrist-braces are now firearms.

#9 Nobody can privately sell a firearm of any kind to another private citizen.

They will also be utilizing the Harvestores and there is a lot of space between the storage units, so heidth is necessary for proper slope to all the units from the leg.
Loren

When I put my legs up, they built them from the head pulley down along with the distributor. Then guyed it and put the spouting up. A 36 X 50 is not that large of a bin, maybe 50K bushels. Maybe that will be the wet holding for the dryer. Here in central IL, they are using blowers away from the dryers at about 3K bushels per hour. If you have dry corn and bypass the dryer, that would provide a bottle neck. But it is cheaper than another leg and spouting.

John,
I can't agree with you more! We just made some headway here. The local tree hugger siciety put in a patition to have our whole town declared a historic preservation district. The State Parks and Recreation Dept sent out letters to all property owners in the town, and get THIS!! If you are opposed to this, you had to draft a letter to P&R Dept., have it NOTERIZED, and mail it to them at their offices in Waterford NY. No action on this was the same as being for it, and many people just threw the letter away, thus a yes vote. The town board also voted against the proposal and sent a letter to P&R which ment nothing.
Those of us who were born and brought up here, mounted a grass roots fight and went door to door with a letter in OPPOSITION, and my wife a notary and two other notaries in the town got a 3 to 1 margin against the proposal, and 90% land mass margin in the town. We needed a 51% margin. The Cityidiots lost this round. We're taking back our town.
Loren

They will be back again and again, just like school budget votes, vote it down you get to pay for another and another vote til you give in.

So the grain will gravity flow down into the bin all elevator legs are like that got to remember wet grain doesent flow like dried stuff

what does bto stand for?

Big
Time
Operator

Loren, I wonder how your new neighbor, and the rest of the farmers in NYS, are going to feel when they find out that NYS has determined that farm land should no longer be given an artificially low value to help keep the owners taxes down? It's been done that way forever, now NYS has figured out they can soak more money out of the taxpayers. That's part of the reason I'm actually, grudgingly, running for a Town office. Good people have to serve and try and stop or at least slow this nonsense. Otherwise we may as well just pack up and move or go on welfare.

(quoted from post at 16:51:17 09/30/13) I'm glad to see someone doing OK in central NY. In my opinion - this state is so screwed up it's all downhill from here. Andrew Cuomo is finalizing the destruction that his daddy started years back . . . in one of the most beautiful states in the contiguous USA.

Just in the past 5 years - some of the inane new laws that have been put in place and I'm talking NY State statutes and not local laws.

#1 No open brush burning without a permit (or if a certified farmer).

#2 No guns that might be interpreted as "assault weapons" even though there is no distinct definition of what they actually are.

#3 No guns of any kind with more then 7 rounds of ammo. Not even a .22 target rifle loaded with shorts or CB caps.

#4 No ammo purchased on-line and shipped of any kind.

#5 No more then one unregistered motor-vehicle per property in the entire state if not a business. Snow plow trucks are exempted.

#6 Everyone with a motor boat MUST get state training to legally use the boat. Even if you're 60 years old with 40 years of trouble-free boating experience.

#7 Nobody can transport firewood on any public road in New York without proper NY state paperwork showing the origin and destination of that wood. Technically, if I am crossing the road from one property to another - that I both own - with firewood and no paperwork - I am in violation of the law.

#8 Slingshots with wrist-braces are now firearms.

#9 Nobody can privately sell a firearm of any kind to another private citizen.

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JD, Where did you get #5? Never heard of that one. And I thought #7 had a distance limit? #8, a wrist brace slingshot has been illegal for at least 25 years, that's not new. They aren't "firearms", they are either "deadly weapons" or "dangerous instruments", I forget which.

Not to mention #7 is because of the emerald ash borer, which is destroying all the ash trees because people INSIST on transporting firewood (and hence, the beetles riding inside) all over the place.

...and I don't think it's as ridiculous as you say anyway. You can legally transport firewood a few miles without paperwork, or at least you could when I last reviewed the law.

Thanks for the update Loren, I can't remember the original farmers name but Harvestor took my father and I there to look at his mixer setup when we lived in Richfield. Glad to see a young guy getting started. Chuck

The name was Cope. They were cousins to our family.
Loren, the Acg.