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We finished cleaning the second of 5 bins today. This one holds 4 million pounds. It has insulated concrete walls and a 4 fan x 4? fan ventilation system.
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I?m guessing so it?s easier to scoop up the potatoes. They have an 8? low backed bucket on a fork lift they use to scoop when they?re loading.
 
I have an acquaintance that is now retired from potatoes farming , still owns the farm, and rents the storage out to other potato farmers. These are massive buildings, and he told me that they can drive a truck inside to load in the wintertime. The truck will have snow on it, and the heat given off from the potatoes will melt the snow off of the truck. Takes a lot of ventilation to keep the spuds cool so they don?t spoil. Never would have thought of that. This fella has a very nice collection of IH tractors and uses a couple of older storage bins to store tractors.
 
They are very large buildings Bruce. These guys have 3 attached bins at the main farm and an indoor grading room. Normally what they do is scoop into the pile with the fork lift and dump it in a small bulk box. That feeds onto a dirt eliminator where 4 people stand and pick out culls and rocks. From there it goes onto a conveyor that drops them onto the front of a telescopic bin piler that goes outside through an 8x8 door and into a tractor trailer.
 

Last winter while snowmobiling in Maine we were gassing up in Van Buren and a potato truck came in. I had always been curious about how they handled them so I went and asked the driver. He told me that at the storage barn they load them into a hopper which then feeds a conveyor to load the truck, and that they get very little damage.
 
That?s basically how they do it,you just have to make sure
they don?t fall very far onto a hard surface.
 
Where we harvested wheat in Idaho the farm we were on had a few new cellars as they call them, that were hundreds of feet long. They were insulated with very thick foam, maybe 12" thick? The old cellars in that area had gabled cement roofs with straw bales laid on top of the roofs with sand thrown on them to seal the cracks. We couldn t get over the concept of using straw bales on top of the roof but it s desert country there and the bales last for years exposed to the elements. The sidewalls are bermed up with sand for insulation. There is certainly no shortage of sand in that area. They call it rich volcanic loam in their advertising.
 
(quoted from post at 20:13:01 06/20/19) Where we harvested wheat in Idaho the farm we were on had a few new cellars as they call them, that were hundreds of feet long. They were insulated with very thick foam, maybe 12" thick? The old cellars in that area had gabled cement roofs with straw bales laid on top of the roofs with sand thrown on them to seal the cracks. We couldn t get over the concept of using straw bales on top of the roof but it s desert country there and the bales last for years exposed to the elements. The sidewalls are bermed up with sand for insulation. There is certainly no shortage of sand in that area. They call it rich volcanic loam in their advertising.
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That would be interesting to see. Have always been fascinated with how straw or grasses could make a roof, such as the thatch roofs in England. Saw them on an episode of This Old House, IIRC.
 
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