Picking pics

Was a good day picking Sunday, even had a baby!

Nice.

Think this is the first year in my life no ear corn was picked on the farm. I have a wagon load full from last year yet, and the corn dried down so fast it didn't pay to ear 13-24% corn.....

Hope to again next year, just a little.

Paul

Looks ;like a pretty good set-up. No shoveling, think I was born with a #14 grain scoop on the end of my arm.

Nice pictures.

(quoted from post at 13:15:56 11/09/15) Looks ;like a pretty good set-up. No shoveling, think I was born with a #14 grain scoop on the end of my arm.

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nd it was steel not aluminum or plastic.

Brown Swiss,

Great photos!!

Sure brings back memories of when my husband still farmed. He filled double wood cribs like yours, plus a round crib, every year.

Corn is in and a new calf to boot. Not a bad day.

Greg

-Brown Swiss
how does that barn work? is it like a grain leg? conveyors at the top to distribute throughout the building? what does the clear overhead chute do?

looks like a really cool setup! lots of moving parts! wish I could have been there!

Yes please explain further.

It has an in floor bucket elevator, (Meyers, not the company from Dorchester WI). It runs across the floor, up the north side of the crib then at the top dumps the grain/ear corn into the hopper in the top of the crib then the grain or ear corn slides down the slide to which ever bin you put it in, the slide can rotate 360 degrees, and has I think five extensions that you can shove together to make it shorter or pull it out and make it longer. The bucket elevator returns down the south side of the crib and goes under the floor to the north side! There are three doors you can open, two smaller like the one pictured for gravity boxes, and the center is a longer door, so you can use barge wagons/hydraulic dump wagons or a truck, in the center one there is tin work in there with a built in slide so you can regulate the flow of the grain going to the buckets, so not to over load the elevator! Small door on the south side of the elevator, same size as the one pictured, has the oilier system for the chain, and it is a special chain! Then lastly in the third pic is the built in hoist, noticing the I beams fastened to the ceiling with cable winches, and the mechanism on the upper left to run it, there is a thing you run the front tires on and hook the cables to it, runs from the same 5 hp electric motor as the elevator, it is for wagons or strait trucks with no hoist, it will pick a loaded strait truck up to the ceiling! My grandfather built the crib in 1957 and has been used every year since, each side holds 1500 bushels of ear corn.

what does the clear overhead chute do?

You must mean the forth pic? That is just simply the chain returning to to south after dumping in the hopper! Open space in case the hopper plugs so the corn does not to come down the down side the elevator, not a good place to stand if it plugs with ear corn, might hurt a bit, when it happens you know it is plugged, like a modern day warning system! LOL