![]() If it's a stave silo, and you want to do it yourself, you can start at the top and remove the hoops and start dropping the staves one by one. What size? How much lean? Concrete stave or poured? If it's a poured silo then you have a big (no pun intended) problem. I'm assuming that the silage goes up 15 or 20 feet from what you describe. The remaining stub could be cleaned up with perhaps a crawler mounted backhoe. is perhaps the quickest and safest for what you have. You will definitely want that cable to be sufficiently long.Īll in all it would appear that option c. Big dozer is the obvious, but a large tractor pulling a truck (truck acts as clump weight so tractor tires don't get unloaded) also works. Pretty quick way.Suffiently long cable hooked to the top of the tub down to suitable tow vehicle. Not much resale there, except perhaps to modern artist.Ĭ. Hopefully everyone in the vicinity will live through it, and no nearby structures will be squished. Major mess to clean up when the dust settles. You may want to have an assistant videotaping the event from a safe vantage point. ![]() Progress along the periphery until you hear an ominous rumble, then split but quick. The quick way.making sure of where you want to drop the thing, take a sledge hammer to the bottom staves along the outside in the general direction of where you want the mess. Sand around the bottom would help preserve the staves if they're worth saving and if you want to market them.ī. The slow way.run a staging up the thing, disassemble the roof if it has one, then (carefully) remove the rods one round (tier) at a time, gently tap unrodded staves with a sledge and look out below. If it's got bands (rods) around it that would seem to be what you have.Ī. Well how big a mess do you want and how much time and money is getting shut of the thing worth?Īs a former silo professional, I recall that there were several ways to demolish empty cement stave silos. Good luck and let us know which you decide to do it. Just make certain that you stand far enough away that as the silo falls, and crashes to the ground, you won't get hit be the flying bebris. as the wood burns, it will burn the supporting timbers out, and once enough of the timbers have burnt, the silo will fall. He'll light fire wood, and stand back, way back. ![]() Once all of the timbers are inplace, he'll pile a large amount of firewood, near the timbers supporting the silo. He'll work about 1/3 of the way aroung the silo, berating out the concrete, and beating placing the timbers inplace. Thenb he will move in eighter direction, beating out the concrete, and sliding in another section of railroad tie ( or 6圆 ) then he will work on the other side of the first tie and place in another tie or timber. Here isa a good idera that a chap in england has used many times, First he decied which wah her wants the silo to fall, Working at the base, on the side inwhich the iol will fall, he knocks a hole in the base with a sledge hammer, after beating enough out to place a section of an railroad tie, about 3 to four feet high, he'll beat the tie in place, so that it fits tightly. Re: Demolish Silo Hints? in reply to Diesel Dan, 07-24-2000 19:42:38
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