A crying shame......

Eldon (WA) · Oct 3, 2017

Took these pics about 6 miles north of Fowlerville, MI this morning. Never talked to the owners, but with all the silage in the cab area and the crushed blower sitting behind it I think the silo probably collapsed while they were filling it.

Bob Harvey · Oct 3, 2017

Just Nasty !

Eldon (WA) · Oct 3, 2017

Another view

chuck machinist · Oct 3, 2017

lessons in life!. CM

Spook · Oct 3, 2017

Wow. That's within a couple miles from my house. I'll have to ask around about it. I just checked the local paper and the radio station sites,
and no news. Did it look like it happened within the last day or so?

crooked rows · Oct 3, 2017

That's a couple of miles from me......happened about two weeks ago...

Eldon (WA) · Oct 3, 2017

(quoted from post at 17:13:19 10/03/17) Wow. That's within a couple miles from my house. I'll have to ask around about it. I just checked the local paper and the radio station sites,
and no news. Did it look like it happened within the last day or so?

My BIL drives by there twice a day, said he thought they were tearing down a silo as it was leaning a while back....my guess is the tractor was under it, and they had to tear it down to get the tractor out. Lots of forces at work there.....

crooked rows · Oct 3, 2017

This was a different silo....part of the leaning silo is still standing out back.......two silos in three years........

Eldon (WA) · Oct 3, 2017

(quoted from post at 17:29:38 10/03/17) This was a different silo....part of the leaning silo is still standing out back.......two silos in three years........

S'pose it is sitting out there waiting for the insurance co to take it away??

crooked rows · Oct 3, 2017

That would be my guess......we were told his insurance told him they would pay for the tractor but not the silo.....

Dave H (MI) · Oct 3, 2017

No offense, but just because it is a couple miles from your house does not make it your business. Not really a newsworthy event. People on here talking about his insurance and what it covered. Really amazes me. It is a couple miles from my place too. I wouldn't care if it was across the road. It is someone elses private business. I am rebuilding an old dairy barn on my place. I have had 5 people in 5 days stop by and interrogate me. 3 of them I never met before and they did not introduce themselves. Shocking to me what people think is appropriate anymore.

Sorry, not picking on you specifically.

Bruce from Can. · Oct 3, 2017

Lots of tower silos 30+ years old around , should be took down. Several I know of came down , and crushed the barns. One barn had cows in it.

rustred · Oct 3, 2017

John Deere ingenuity done!

showcrop · Oct 3, 2017

(quoted from post at 18:16:55 10/03/17) No offense, but just because it is a couple miles from your house does not make it your business. Not really a newsworthy event. People on here talking about his insurance and what it covered. Really amazes me. It is a couple miles from my place too. I wouldn't care if it was across the road. It is someone elses private business. I am rebuilding an old dairy barn on my place. I have had 5 people in 5 days stop by and interrogate me. 3 of them I never met before and they did not introduce themselves. Shocking to me what people think is appropriate anymore.

Sorry, not picking on you specifically.

I don't see that crooked rows is making it his business because he is nearby. I take it to mean that here is a topic that he knows something about, and just the same as in many threads here and in hundreds of other forums and in tens of thousands of coffee shops people chime in with what they know, just taking part in conversation as people have for centuries. People who are sensitive about others knowing their business generally put up tall fences, keep their buildings far back from the road with gates and put up no trespassing signs.

mrashwood · Oct 3, 2017

I wish someone would stop and interrogate me when I'm working on my barn...They could hand me nails and carry boards while they are asking questions!!!

glennster · Oct 3, 2017

dave, we have, what i like to call in my neck of the woods, the secret meeting. if yer out and about doin something, some one will always stop and introduce themselves and have breif bull session. we had some new people buy a farmette down the road from me last week, they were out doing yard cleanup, it was neglected all summer. went down with the golf cart, introduced myself, visited for a bit and gave them my phone number. told em call if you need anything.

Spook · Oct 3, 2017

I could care less about the insurance. I am just curious as to how it happened. If it is 6 miles north of Fowlerville, that would put it in Conway township. I thought you were further east?

tomturkey · Oct 3, 2017

Yes Dave, I agree on "whats appropriate". Had a neighbor who I had casual conversations with, we'd talk farming politics about anything. No big deal right. WRONG. This guy was cataloging and fileing everything in his head and would repeat it at the caf?, the elevator ball games. Pretty soon I was learning about me from other people who knew more about me and my thoughts and business than I did. It really was no big deal, but the neighborhood gossip is not a good one to share even the most mundane information. Some people thrive on KNOWING something/anything about you or your operation. Oh well if they are talking about me, they are leaving some one else alone. lol gobble

rrlund · Oct 4, 2017

Too big of a buck trying to produce little Deere's would be my guess. Like putting a 2000 pound bull in with heifers. LOL

crooked rows · Oct 4, 2017

I'm straight east of there ....one mile into Cohoctah Township

used red MN · Oct 4, 2017

I'm surprised the force could dismount the tires. Although the left rim looks like something pretty
stout contacted the rim pretty hard.

tomstractorsandtoys · Oct 4, 2017

Many years ago I was at a tractor parts yard and they had just got a 4230 Deere cab tractor that a silo fell on. It was only three ft. tall. They told me later they never got a single good part off that tractor. There was so much pressure that it busted the sides out on the engine block. I have helped clean up a silo that was starting to lean. It is a lot of work. Many silos are bad because people put silage in to wet and the acid eats them up. Tom

Spook · Oct 4, 2017

I'm in Cohoctah. Are you ever on red power?

Traditional Farmer · Oct 4, 2017

You'd hate living in the South anytime I'm working on something in sight of the road I'll have some folks stop by and talk,I enjoy it and have made some friends with some newcomers
that I'd of probably not met otherwise.There is a garage near me that stopped doing mechanical work but the old fellow that ran it still goes there every day and a group of old fellows come by to
talk.I took a couple watermelons I grew over there awhile back so we'd have a good snack and caught up on the local goings on.

Mark W. · Oct 4, 2017

YOUTUBE Josh Timer, silo failure and clean up. Tells the story.

crooked rows · Oct 4, 2017

rrlund · Oct 4, 2017

You're a testy old coot sometimes ain't you? LOL

centash · Oct 4, 2017

Probably rolled off when the tractor was moved. RIP, JD. :^( Ben

Leroy · Oct 4, 2017

Have no idea how to get on You Tube so cannot see anything. My question is was anybody hurt? Killed? Then was it a steel silo? That is the only type I have heard of falling down. The old tile ones decaying but no longer in use or falling down. Years ago what was a local guy moved several mile away and filling steel silo fell and crushed him under it. Found out a couple of years ago I know current owner of place and the ols silo has never been cleaned up. All buildings have fallen down years ago.

Eldon (WA) · Oct 4, 2017

(quoted from post at 06:21:04 10/04/17) YOUTUBE Josh Timer, silo failure and clean up. Tells the story.

How dare he post it for the whole world to see

Talk about tedious work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy6V21aPjAw

W_B · Oct 4, 2017

(quoted from post at 02:16:55 10/04/17) I am rebuilding an old dairy barn on my place. I have had 5 people in 5 days stop by and interrogate me. 3 of them I never met before and they did not introduce themselves. Shocking to me what people think is appropriate anymore.

We built a log house in a large lot subdivision about 25 yrs. ago and a number of people did the same thing while we were building, would drive up the rather long drive to get a closer look. I tried to be nice as I didn't know who was just a nosy passerby or a neighbor that owned a lot there (we were the first to start construction so no one else lived there yet). Worse the next door neighbors who started their place shortly after we did were measuring set backs and square footage of the other places in the development to see if they complied with the regulations, including ours. They quizzed us on the side set back based on some stakes we put in the ground to gauge the angle of the house on the lot, those weren't the final location stakes. Didn't like them after that and that was not the last run in with them. They got caught in one house measuring the floor area, and were promptly told to leave and never come back. Needless to say they were not any sort of friends after that.

Spook · Oct 4, 2017

Yup. Looked up his Facebook page, I see that he produces maple syrup. See,s like a real hard worker. Makes cool vids too!

Leroy · Oct 5, 2017

I take it then that nobody got hurt or killed then. Very few of those types were put up in my area. All poured concrete. To find one of that type they are older ones from before had the equipment or knowlage to build the poured ones. The steel one that fell that I knew about the problen was the way it was filled. The blower did not evenly put things in the middle, it droped all the silage against one wall and that weight against the wall is what did it in. This is acording to others that were working there at that time and happened to be out of line of fall. If you do not have the proper distributor in your grain bin it can happen there.

A crying shame......

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