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Thumb of Michigan | I have 2 neighbors who use wooden graneries that were built in the earley 60's. I rememeber one being put up. That one will hold about 50K all told. Impressive structure for on farm storage at the time, but the son sure wishes they would have waited for steel bins to be invented when he's cleaning it out. They both were infested with weevil many years ago, still have to be diligent on fumigating. Hard to get trucks into as well, but it serves the purpose for them.
For whatever reason, there are still a lot of barns in my area that have small wooden bins and seed cleaners here. The livestock walked out of here in the 50's, and between having some good barns around as well as many cleaning there own seed, the barns worked OK. Many were used to clean wheat and dry bean seed. I used to have one farmer willing to clean up cover crop seed for me in one of the older set ups, but he drew the line (understandably) when we wanted to clean rye. | |
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wooden grain storage
