how was feed loaded into the top of wooden farm silos?
They used steam traction engines to drive a spindle on a conveyor.There are pictures of such set ups in early agricultural books. Although the silo's weren't that high, the angle of the elevator wasn't that great. Then the blower was invented which still lifted the grain, and still driven by a steam traction engine. This is the first time Ive seen photo's of this set up. I have books on Cimbra equipment for grain and seed dressing, which all have electric motors attached. The first records for Cimbra, are about 1947. But, I have no information on how the grain was stored before hand. I suspect Jute bags were the main tool for storage, which gave all the vermon in the locality a free feed, when ever they wanted it. The place I work at have all the computerised high volume transfer units, with our average silo being 400 tonnes. A big change from the early days.
