Harvestore silo

MattCatlin · Mar 6, 2022

Is there a market for used silos? I have a farm in Sw missouri that used to be a dairy. I have a big blue tombstone got to be at least 25 by 100. My wifes uncle said he thought I could sell it. Big tax bill this year suddenly has me interested.

36 A · Mar 6, 2022

Steel constructors Springvalley Mn . If they still do or not idk . They have a website I see .

SHALER · Mar 6, 2022

A side question here for those in the know- I thought or was told those blue tombstones maxed out at 80 feet?

tomstractorsandtoys · Mar 6, 2022

Not sure of the value but those sheets get repurposed for a good many things. My son often uses them when building cattle handling setups for alleyway sides. Tom

Bruce from Can. · Mar 7, 2022

Harvestor silos can absolutely be reused. And 25 years ago the market for used Blue Monuments were in hit demand. Now in 2022, there is little demand, and you will have trouble getting much out of yours. Some are being knocked down and cut up for scrap, sad.
There are two things that have killed off the market. One thing is the fact that livestock operations find the high capital cost and operating cost of these blue silos, considering the volume of feed they hold, just isnt practical. And silage and ground high moisture grain corn can be kept much more cost effectively in a concrete bunker. Also the unloaded are high cost to maintain and are far too slow to unload compared to the bucket on a payloader.
We call them monuments to a dead farmer, because most farmers that put them up are dead and gone. And they sit empty on now empty farms that are only cash cropped.

coonie minnie · Mar 7, 2022

I think there were 90 footers out there??

BarnyardEngineering · Mar 7, 2022

If you can get someone to take it down and haul it away for what they can get out of selling the parts, you will still be money ahead on the taxes.

You can't expect to get anything out of the silo, as they're going to have to truck in equipment and pay a crew to take it down. They have to make money to stay in business, you know.

Bret4207 · Mar 7, 2022

I have a poured concrete 100 footer here. Absolutely useless except as a land mark. Look inside and it's never even been half full. I'm told the guy that put it up wanted the biggest silo in town. Idiocy!

MSD · Mar 7, 2022

Big Tee was in the used blue silo business awhile back. Not sure how it turned out for him. Morning Tee.

miangus · Mar 7, 2022

The same jacks that put it up will take it down. There used to be a regular business in taking down silo's and moving them, I expect all history now. A.O. Smith sold a rebuild kit with new bolts and sealer. I have spent more then one Saturday in the shop on call for service washing sheets with muriatic acid. Wash a sheet and move it to another skid. It seemed that service call would come in about four and we would head out.

NY 986 · Mar 7, 2022

My neighbor had a 20 X 90 Harvestore. Went up in 1978 and came down in 1992. I've heard of 100' units and if I thought about it long enough I would remember where such units were built around here. Anyways, the neighbor used an IH 56 blower to push high moisture corn into it and put a 95 HP tractor on it so it would make it all the way up.

paul · Mar 7, 2022

Some folk like Amish still want them. Can be used for a wet corn bin or other such too. Tho those operations are diminishing as farms get bigger. I think these actually want the smaller sizes more so.

If nothing else the panel with the big flag on it is valuable, folk pay big money for that one panel.

Paul

larkota · Mar 7, 2022

AB Water uses one for water storage, renamed Aquastore. I use old sheets bolted together for a place to park equipment on, wished I had more, careful walking on when wet or frosty. Thought they would make a cheap swimming pool.

Bruce from Can. · Mar 7, 2022

Neighbours had a 60 footer, and decided to add another 30 feet on to have a 90 footer. And it worked fine for the first few years. Because the foundation wasnt built to hold a 90 foot tower, one very wet year after the tower was filled, it tipped over on the dairy barn crushing many cows beneath it.

INCase · Mar 7, 2022

around here many have been either taken down for scrap or converted over for grain storage. a few still in use.

if its 100 tall that doesn't mean it has to be reassembled as a 100 footer if someone wanted a shorter unit.

if you're being taxed on it (property tax) that would also give more motivation to take it down. less taxes and some $ for scrap or sale.

we have a smaller concrete stave silo that they are still taxing us on. need to talk to county about taking it off. it is obsolete and it doesn't even have an unloader. need to get the nearly fallen down grainary off the tax list too.

big tee · Mar 7, 2022

Morning Mel--Just got our internet back--It's been down since the storm the other night! Yea--I used to be one of the biggest dealers in Harlan township but couldn't stand the prosperity! So I retired... BUT--I know where are 3 cheap ones!---Tee

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 7, 2022

Plenty of those around here....unused.

oliverplow · Mar 7, 2022

Three 70 footers. I have two 80 footers side by side that are both empty now. However, a local technology company put internet radios on top of one of them that feeds internet to people up to eleven miles away so I'm still getting some use out of it.

wisbaker · Mar 7, 2022

Most of the rendering plants I worked at had Harvestores and most of them were bought used.

fastfarmall · Mar 7, 2022

I can believer it, there no free lunch!!

Gambles · Mar 7, 2022

There are several big dairies around here that had them. One by one, they were taken down by an Amish demolition team and they told me they get shipped to Canada to get reused.

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