I have been driving past a neighboring silo since June and it's always billowing smoke. I believe it was deliberately set on fire and somewhat demolished as it is toppled over and the sides caved in. Anyone care to guess what it is that has been burning steady for seven months now, what can get that hot and stay that hot, would silage last that long? Coal? It is putting out some long term heat.
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Russ from MN
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- Bemidji MN
My father had peat fires that would burn for a couple of years, that's how you cleared land in the old days!
Janicholson
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Spontaneous combustion is a possibility. If a Oxygen free storage system, it could have caused the collapse as well as sustain the smolder. SIlage has celulose and that brakes down to sugars and that is a carbohydrate (read flammable) The presence of moisture both limits the rate, and promotes the breakdown. Jim
It self combusted, like too wet hay, it was too dry silage.
Oxygen starved, it does a very slow burn, more of a smolder.
Can?t put it out, water won?t soak in fast enough, the heat boils it off. Possible to unload in some situations but that?s dangerous to do.
Silo is likely wrecked from the heat, so not much to do but let it burn.
Paul
Oxygen starved, it does a very slow burn, more of a smolder.
Can?t put it out, water won?t soak in fast enough, the heat boils it off. Possible to unload in some situations but that?s dangerous to do.
Silo is likely wrecked from the heat, so not much to do but let it burn.
Paul
onefarmer
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- 6735 S Lowell Rd, St Johns, Mi 48879
Local BTO filled a silo with some wheat he wanted to make silage from. He did two things wrong. Let it get toooo mature and let it dry to much when he mowed it. Couple weeks earlier and/or mow and cut immediately and it would have been good stuff.
Now he's too big to mess with silos.
Now he's too big to mess with silos.
onefarmer
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- 6735 S Lowell Rd, St Johns, Mi 48879
OH it burned for about a year.
Bruce from Can.
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- Location
- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
One of our neighbors barns burned down in 1987, old 40 foot silo beside the barn full of grain caught on fire, and smouldered away all winter. In the spring , they Brough in a excavator to clean up the site and knock down the old silo. Once the silo came crashing down, there was a big burst of flame, as the still smouldering feed in the silo got air and came to life.
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