Re: Corn Crib Question

Posted by DR. EVIL on October 17, 2017 at 11:14:40 from (174.197.14.19):

In Reply to: Re: Corn Crib Question posted by RedGreenGuy on October 16, 2017 at 21:17:31:

Your crib sounds almost exactly like Our crib! Same size, 4000 bu per side, Dad would cheat and fill up onto the roof a little years when corn yield was good. Kewanee inside bucket elevator with a feed drag built in the floor. Had a Stan-Hoist portable drive over wagon hoist when Grandpa helped pick, his WC Allis didn't have hyd remotes. When I got old enough to haul in, 11-12 years, the wagons all had hoists, backed them in. Had two overhead bins on north end of crib, and one bin on south end twice the size of the other bins. Combined they easily held 2000 bu. oats. Used a Knoedler Burr mill to grind earcorn and used a 4 inch by 20 ft Mayrath auger to move ground corn into walk-in cattle feeder. Normally ground on Saturday, especially when all the ear corn had to be scooped. The handle only fit MY hands.

All the corn was picked and ground for the cattle, all the feed for 500 to 800 head of hogs was bought complete from feed mill in town 5 miles away. In winter the mill delivered, when weather was warm enough to run the 5 miles both ways I picked it up in the Heider auger wagon pulled by tractor. (think mini-grain cart) It could haul 5000-6000#. My wages (free) and tractor gas at 7 mpg was much cheaper than the $1/ton the feedmill charged for delivery.

That old crib is still standing, not positive but assume it's empty and has been for decades. It even had a platform scale set in a pit on the south half of the floor. I guess it was intended to weigh cattle & hogs when shipped. As wagons and tractors got bigger and heavier the wood deck became suspect and not wanting to have a tractor or the BIG wagon to fall in, we backed them in on the side with solid concrete floor.

The much smaller crib on the other farm we farmed, maybe 2000 bushel, 1000 per side, no overhead bins is still standing but leaning at about a 10-15 degree angle, been empty since 1972. It was on 80 acres that was on continuous corn for close to 20 years, rest of the corn went in driveway of the BIG front barn, center aisle was 16 ft wide, 30 ft long, and cribbed up over 20 ft tall. Two guys, two mounted pickers, and two wagons picked that 80 acres normally in 2 days.

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