The pipes got pulled up with the rope tied on the tractor down below. We always took down the fill pipe (blower shared with neighbors) so someone had to climb the ladder with rope tied around their waist and feed it through the pulley up there. When Dad was about my age now (early-mid 50s) he would not go up the silo ladder to take up the rope. We used the 1980 White 2-105 on the chopper in the 80s and 90s. I have some still photos of the 90s but not scanned in. In the early 80s I remember helping with the wagons at one neighbors and got to drive his "H". We used those power wagons till the end and hand forking the silage out (last fall was 1996). Shared with the neighbors but my Dad was the last man standing so the chopper and blower ended up with him and was at his retirement auction. In later years, there was a NH 717 chopper and the blower was a Allis Chalmers unit. That is maybe a Farmall "H" pulling the power wagon? Must be a neighbors. Another person is at the top of the silo waving their arms. There is a team of 2 horses pulling a rack and someone is tossing a corn bundle in. Hard to see, but there is a 1936 Allis WC running the belt to a corn chopper. ![]() This vintage picture shows silo filling in the early 40s. Grew up on the farm in the south end of Kandiyohi county in Minnesota. Re: silo filling stories? in reply to swindave, 08-30-2020 16:12:28
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