silo info

[gregdoerfler]

i am looking at a farm and it has 2 big metal silos on it and I'm not going to need them, does anybody know if there is a market for someone to buy it and tear it down? one is about 15' wide and 50'or so tall and other is about 25' wide and 30' tall. what would they be worth?

 

[illflem]

It will probably cost you more to tear them down than they're worth.

Guy in my area had a novel idea what to do with an old silo till he got caught. He dug a big hole next to his silo, tipped it over into it and buried it. Used it to grow pot in. Cops figured he had gotten away with it for over ten years.

 

[TowPro]

I see the Amish down here east of Lancaster trying to sell them from time to time, I don't think there is much market for used silos, but they would be the ones that would buy it, if its saves them 4 cents, they will do it.



I did see an old barn that was converted into a home. It had a silo attached to the side. When they did the conversion to the home, they put spiral stairs up into the silo, then built a deck inside it with windows all the way around the top. Was kind of neat if you have a view of a farm, this only had a view of a rich neighbor hood

 

[Larry Willard]

I saw one converted into a small office. Do what my bbrother in law does. He uses it for storage, dry and lockable. He keeps tools and misc. supplys in there.

Larry

 

[bmoeller]

If they are in good shape, you or anyone around who may want to use/rent them? For what it would cost to move them, I doubt anyone would want to pay much for them.



Did see in Farm Show mag. once that a farmer used the bottom ring from a Harvestore for a swimming pool. Put some rubber hose with a slit in it lenght-wise to cover the edge. Just a thought.

 

[QRTRHRS]

There is an ad in the Lancaster Farming weekly from someone looking to buy concrete stave silos and there are ads for folks looking to sell metal ones. I don't know if any of these other ads would lead to anyone.

http://www.lancclassified.com/templates/farmingres. asp?Section=11&DisplayRangeBegin=1&DisplayRangeEnd=10&ClassNumber=2003&StartDate=7/7/2003&EndDate=7/13/2003

I would not be in a big hurry to tear them down unless they are in danger of falling over. Live with them for awhile, maybe something will come to mind.

 

[Doc Tinker]

Here's a few suggestions:



1. Use them for culverts to drain the pond you don't want.



2. There's a restaurant near me that's a converted barn, with a silo. Turn them into a restaurant. Since cows ate what was in them, they are a restaurant already.



3. Fill them with gun powder and shoot them to the moon.





Doc

 

[gregdoerfler]

they are in really good shape,i was just thinking that why should they just sit there if i could get some money from them and someone could use them. i know they have to cost alot to build new just thought someone could split them in half and haul them that way, just some crazy thinking on my part we don't even know if we are getting the farm for sure. thanks for the suggestions on what to use them for.

 

[Paul Herioux]

If they are blue the are Harvestor's. If this is the case you may not get them with the farm as most were leased do to the high risk of doing maintenance on the unloader which was in the bottom of the silo. I personally would not be willing to crawl through an access hatch into the cavity below a 100 ton pile of silage to replace a motor. If you do end up owning them Harvestor will probably buy them back from you.

 

[bmoeller]

Have you seen the green ones also made by A. O. Smith called Cropstore? Other than the color, do you know what is different about them, if anything?



We have all of the Harvestores (6) converted over for shell corn. Removed the last silage unloader about 2yrs. ago.