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bjrogg:
Worked at unloading trucks and got them all empty by 10:00 pm
The bunker is almost full . Might put another load in. Will decide that this morning.
Was a good weekend. Would have loved to take my bow out hunting, but I’m really glad to get my son’s bunker full. I didn’t want his corn out until we finished beets. This will definitely take some of the pressure off.
Bjrogg
Buckskinner:
We call them trench silos, my dad had 2 of them. One filled with corn silage and the other high moisture that would feed about 250 head of feeder cattle all year long. The corn silage trench silo was huge, probably +150 yards long, 40 yards wide and 15 feet deep, it took hundreds of truck loads to fill.
Brings back lots of memories... The funnest job was to push the loads down the hill with a loader tractor, got a little hairy once in a while, silage is awfully soft when not compacted. Also remember me popping a brake line as I was backing up to the edge to dump, thankfully the silo was not empty and I just went over the edge and got hung up and stuck. Could have been a bad ride...
bjrogg:
Last load of corn for the bunker. Only about 20 acres of my sons corn left and about 10 acres for my neighbor. It’s all to wet to take to town yet so it will probably have to wait till sugar beet harvest is done. Time to clean out the corners of the cart and get it ready for sugar beets again.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
This is the view from top of the pile looking down at the roller mill.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
The last of the corn going through the roller mill. The mill has two groved rollers that run very close to each other. The corn passes between these rolls and is cracked. The cracked corn is more easily digestible for the cattle and it also makes it so we can pack it and drive on it without just getting stuck on the pile.
Bjrogg
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