Posted by DR. EVIL on June 03, 2022 at 12:48:12 from (174.192.129.83):
In Reply to: Elevator Question posted by Kerwin on June 03, 2022 at 06:46:26:
The crib on the farm I grew up on had a Kewanee brand inside elevator, the horizontal conveyor was recessed into the concrete floor. Same elevator carried ear corn into the cupola and chutes directed ear corn into the sides of the crib, or into the overhead bins above the driveway. Those bins could have held shell corn, soy beans, but we raised 40 acres of oats every year for straw and to start fresh seeding of alfalfa for hog pasture and 20 acres of hay for the cattle. The crib also had a platform scale in the south half of the driveway, platform was over 20 ft long by 7-8 ft wide. As our wagons got bigger our trust of that scale diminished, I backed our wagons in from the north end of the crib. Bob and Phillis Johnson who wrote The CORN PICKER Book have also written The Corn Crib Book, pretty safe to say somebody spent about an hour in our crib every day year round, from grinding ear corn for the feeder cattle to unloading supplements to add to the grinder so they mixed in with the feed. One thing we learned the hard way, the '51 Farmall M with 4M&W pistons was the grinding tractor, the Super H could pinch hit in an emergency but the Kneodler burr mill was absolutely everything it wanted to pull
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