Saturday, September 24, 2011

Another Silo + Earthworks

We have decided to build another 300T silo which will be located right next to the other one built earlier in the year. The builders were here on Friday setting up the crane needed to lift the silo as it is being built.

We also had the local earthmoving contractors in to laser level the small paddock the silos are in. It will eventually have just a 1% fall across the whole paddock which will make it much easier for semi-trailers to tip their loads of grain into the silos.






The machines were quite mesmerising to watch in action! The levellers hold almost 50T of soil when full so you can imagine the horsepower needed to pull the beasts!

2 comments:

Annette Piper said...

So organised and neat!!! The areas around our silos go up and down ... in our defence grain is secondary to beef and hubby has been working on the yards so they're bigger and better now :)

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