You are reinventing the wheel, and doing so the long hard way.
Visit the grain bin manufacturers, build what you need, and do it right.
If you are on a budget and have more energy and time than money, buy a used bin for scrap metal price, take a few rings off, move it to your location, and reassemble on your concrete pad.
If you don't like concrete and steel rings, then build a wooden grainery, they require a lot of shoveling and pain in the rear, but if you are a wood builder than might work for you.
As an builder, you seem bent on making this all more expensive and complicated than need be.
3500 bu 'government bins' are about 300 bucks used, costs more to take down and reassemble, but are the shoestring way to do this. Most of the cost is in concrete and augers and labor, the actual bin is the cheap part so new or used, understand where the money will go, used needs to be very cheap to make worthwhile.
Metal bins are built upwards, with bin jacks, you do not add on to the top!
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