What to do with a corn crib

TractorTucker · Jan 9, 2021

I am helping a relative clean up a farm and it has this old drive through corn crib on it. I will probably tear the wood and sheet metal out of it and repurpose it, what should I do with the bricks?

johnofnewhaven · Jan 9, 2021

I would love to have that on my property. If is structurally sound no way would I tear it down. But I'm sentimental about Old farm buildings.

Buddy · Jan 9, 2021

I agree.

504 · Jan 9, 2021

I see the roof is bad but I too would love to have it here. If nothing else it would be a good lawn mower shed,a place to keep a tractor.

TractorTucker · Jan 9, 2021

If you want to come move it, my uncle would sell it cheap.

oliverkid · Jan 9, 2021

I’d love to have a crib like that. Old girl has character they just dont build into new farms.

TractorTucker · Jan 9, 2021

The problem with using it for anything is that the property it is on is 107 acres and it is on the opposite side from where all the other buildings and equipment is. It is also 20 feet off the highway which leads to concerns about theft.

johnofnewhaven · Jan 9, 2021

I wish it was that simple and that close. I just hate to see old farm buildings tore down if they are in reasonable/repairable condition.

jon f mn · Jan 9, 2021

Man I want one of those badly. Wish I could come get it, there just isn't time or money this year. Where is it?

DoubleO7 · Jan 9, 2021

How are those bricks or blocks held together?
Zooming in on pic it looks like they are vertical rectangles.
Banded with iron rods with the ends terminating in one block?

I would post it up for sale on some website specializing in alternative housing projects.
Would make a neat cabin.

https://www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=4788

fastfarmall · Jan 9, 2021

Yeah,it's kinda a shame, but it useful life is over, try and see if u can recycle the bricks, or use them for rip rap or some thing, i wouldn't want them buried on my land, but my cousin in Iowa, her and her husband had one like that, but taller,they kept theirs, but it was on their working farm, yard.

TractorTucker · Jan 9, 2021

Missouri Valley Iowa

TractorTucker · Jan 9, 2021

Yeah it has metal bands wrapping around
it, it looks like they end in a
turnbuckle, I am not sure if they go into
a block.

TractorTucker · Jan 9, 2021

I agree that it is a shame but on the other hand is there a point to leaving it sitting until it either gets bulldozed or collapses then gets bulldozed? At least which trying to salvage it I can walk off with some nice thick wood beams and some other materials.

paul · Jan 9, 2021

In the right place folks have made gazebos, grill huts, out of them. But they often just aren’t right for that.

Paul

DIM · Jan 10, 2021

I took a old silo and set up a four foot section and put a plastic liner in it and made a swimming pool for the kids. My silo was metal. If that could be done with was you got maybe you could sell starter swimming pool kits

Tony in SD · Jan 10, 2021

Only 20 off the hiway. What a great place to repurpose it into a rental house. And keep a piece of history alive.

muleman51 · Jan 10, 2021

When I drive through Iowa I look for those old crib/granaries, they are so neat. Some have the internal bucket conveyors for ear corn and other grain. Always wanted one, I'd still feed ear corn if I did. The Neighbor when I was a kid had one, ear corn on the sides and oats up above the alley. They were works of art and so useful.

Ultradog MN · Jan 10, 2021

Do you have a close up of the openings in the blocks? What are the dimensions of the blocks?
All the rage here in the city are enviro friendly parking areas. You can drive and park on them but they allow the water to soak through.
I kinda wish I could find something like that here. Need about 1200 sf of them to expand the garage apron out into the yard for more parking. The City won't let you drive/park on dirt or grass.
I looked all over for some Marsden Mats but the hundreds of square miles of the stuff that was used in WWII is all gone now.

BarryfromIA · Jan 10, 2021

Around here they are called Page crib because they were built by the Page Silo company. They made a Silo stave with holes in them for ventilation and steel hoops like a silo. They also had in internal elevator. Most of them are bigger them the one pictured.

GordoSD · Jan 10, 2021

With a .338 Lapua sniper rifle you could have access to about 480 acres of deer hunting.

cdmn · Jan 10, 2021

Bristol Beaufighter. Considered the best British plane of WWII. Used sleeve-valved engines. up to 1,735 hp, 14 cylinders. Bristol Hercules engines.

Pete in Holland MI · Jan 10, 2021

Several years ago, I saw an article where a couple converted one of them into a house. They cut pieces of glass or plastic to fill each of the openings. Had an interesting effect with the hundreds of little windows all over.

steel · Jan 10, 2021

I scrapped the iron bands and turned the rest into creek crossings.

ss55 · Jan 10, 2021

U.S. highway 30?

I suspect it will cost you far more to demolish it than you can salvage out of it. Property taxes on a building that old is maybe $20 per year? Your relative might gain the most by gaining an extra 1/4 acre of cropland. Unless the owners are willing to pay you to demolish it, I would let them deal with it.

fastfarmall · Jan 10, 2021

We called it pierced aluminum planking, PAP, i was in the Army Combat engineer's, i would hope they recycled it, but never know!

cumminspuller · Jan 11, 2021

I'd love to have a crib like that!

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