Silo #2 looks like the ones I built in Indiana and Kentucky for Madison Silos out of Markle IN in 1966-67. Having a hard time knocking in down, aren't they!! The checkerboard at the top is the Madison Silo mark. I moved upwards of 6000 30" concrete staves a week, each one weighing 77 lb. I was lean and mean in those days. Piece work. Very good money. I was the ground man, sending up the staves and then sitting in a bosun's chair under a block and tackle to tighten the hoops while the other two members of the crew installed the roof. When one of those staves got loose from the grabber, I would really jump -- was in the next county before it hit the ground. Biggest we built was 70' tall. Smallest was 40'. Quit after I lost my nerve on the 70 footer. Just too high for me in a bosun's chair.
Walter, you pay taxes on them. If it’s not being used it just costs you money. This one in particular was removed, as well as a barn and a house, to clear the path for large irrigation system on a pivot point.
I dropped a 14'X45' one time. It fell where I wanted it. I will never do another one. My luck didn't run out, but I thought I could see the bottom of the well. Not fun
Silo #2 looks like the ones I built in Indiana and Kentucky for Madison Silos out of Markle IN in 1966-67. Having a hard time knocking in down, aren't they!! The checkerboard at the top is the Madison Silo mark. I moved upwards of 6000 30" concrete staves a week, each one weighing 77 lb. I was lean and mean in those days. Piece work. Very good money. I was the ground man, sending up the staves and then sitting in a bosun's chair under a block and tackle to tighten the hoops while the other two members of the crew installed the roof. When one of those staves got loose from the grabber, I would really jump -- was in the next county before it hit the ground. Biggest we built was 70' tall. Smallest was 40'. Quit after I lost my nerve on the 70 footer. Just too high for me in a bosun's chair.
Walter, you pay taxes on them. If it’s not being used it just costs you money. This one in particular was removed, as well as a barn and a house, to clear the path for large irrigation system on a pivot point.
GACDIVER you could’ve rented out the house
I dropped a 14'X45' one time. It fell where I wanted it. I will never do another one. My luck didn't run out, but I thought I could see the bottom of the well. Not fun
I always wonder what possesses someone to tear them down, it was by far the most attractive structure on their farm.
Taxes and danger
How did they do to that water tower did they demolish the water power
Water tower demolition demolishing a water tower
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