Inside the 100 foot silo!

My farmer called in to say he that would be late for supper (again) because the silo auger had sheared off and he needed to fix it.  I decided now is my chance to climb in there for myself and see what in the world goes on in there!  And I just know all you readers have been wanting to see inside those silos too! 
 So climb on in and I'll show you "a-round"!.......

We went in the one on the left in this picture.



Here is the ladder that you climb in on.  It's harder to climb up than a regular ladder because the rungs are so far apart.

Here comes my farmer.....

And he is inside ready to work on the unloader.  (that's what the big 'thing' is called that scoops up the silage and shoots it into the ladder shoot)

Drilled some holes, inserted some bolts, grinded them off , and it was ready to go again.  This took about 2 hours.  Not an easy job!

Who is this?  Our little shadow decided to follow us up!

Grinding off the bolts.

We were standing on the packed corn silage....Faith was in barefoot.

We were a little less than half way up.  It's amazing how much those cows can eat in a year!  This is a picture of the empty doors above us.  As the silage gets eaten, they lower the unloader and open the next door to shoot the silage out the door and down the shoot then into the elevator to the mixer.

See? I really did go up!

My farmer called Nathan who was outside and below to turn on the unloader to see if it works.  (and to show us how it works)  See how it shoots the silage over to the door?  Pretty cool, huh?

Here we are climbing out.  It looks like we are climbing out of the space shuttle.  haha  Don't you love the farmer's silo coat?

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!