Post by BuckSkin on Oct 5, 2024 3:44:47 GMT
On the West side of Powell Road
On the North bank of Russell Creek
Eastern Adair County - Kentucky
Saturday_25-May-2024
The block building with the glass windows is a Dairy Parlor where cows were milked.
There is a door just left of the second window where the cows being milked on this side exited the parlor; there should be an identical door on the other side.
Once a dairy cow starts being milked on one side of the parlor or the other, she will insist on coming in on that side of the parlor and will refuse the other.
Alas, Southern Belle don't stop here anymore.
On the right-side horizon, between the overhanging limb and the stand of trees, the top of the Silo at the Round-roofed Barn is visible; 660-yards from Silo to Silo.
This silo is at the dead-end of BP Road, which junctions with Powell Road, the road I am on, out of the picture to the left.
(A gripe here about the laziness of whoever compiled these "official" road names; that "BP Road" is obviously B-something-or-other Powell; most likely whoever originally owned the farm several generations ago. Another generation or two from now, nobody will have any idea just who "BP" was and the poor guy whose only legacy was having a road named after him will fade into oblivion. I have no idea who "BP" is, but I intend to find out.)
A bit of Silo education:
The long tube on the right side of the Silo connects to the Silage Blower, PTO-powered by a big tractor; Silage is augered from a Silage Wagon into the Silage Blower and is blown up the tube and into the Silo.
The larger white tube on the left side is where the Silage falls from the Silage Unloader and down into a drag-chain conveyor that carries the Silage the length of a very long trough where the cattle can access and eat it from both sides.
Inside this white tube is a ladder and man-sized doors about every four feet.
As the rotary Silage Unloader works it's way down from the top of the pile inside the Silo, eventually, it works it's way down below the lowest open door; at which point someone must climb the ladder inside the tube and open the next lower door.
They gauge how much Silage is inside the Silo by however many doors are still closed.
One drawback to these top unloading Silos is first in = first out; the freshest, most recently added, is the first to be fed out.
It is not unusual to have three or four "doors" of silage that has been in there for years; it doesn't spoil and the longer it is in there, the better it gets.
The Unloader rides the round inside wall and goes round and round, throwing the Silage out the open door and down the chute.
Inside a Silo is a good place to get killed.
On the North bank of Russell Creek
Eastern Adair County - Kentucky
Saturday_25-May-2024
The block building with the glass windows is a Dairy Parlor where cows were milked.
There is a door just left of the second window where the cows being milked on this side exited the parlor; there should be an identical door on the other side.
Once a dairy cow starts being milked on one side of the parlor or the other, she will insist on coming in on that side of the parlor and will refuse the other.
Alas, Southern Belle don't stop here anymore.
On the right-side horizon, between the overhanging limb and the stand of trees, the top of the Silo at the Round-roofed Barn is visible; 660-yards from Silo to Silo.
This silo is at the dead-end of BP Road, which junctions with Powell Road, the road I am on, out of the picture to the left.
(A gripe here about the laziness of whoever compiled these "official" road names; that "BP Road" is obviously B-something-or-other Powell; most likely whoever originally owned the farm several generations ago. Another generation or two from now, nobody will have any idea just who "BP" was and the poor guy whose only legacy was having a road named after him will fade into oblivion. I have no idea who "BP" is, but I intend to find out.)
A bit of Silo education:
The long tube on the right side of the Silo connects to the Silage Blower, PTO-powered by a big tractor; Silage is augered from a Silage Wagon into the Silage Blower and is blown up the tube and into the Silo.
The larger white tube on the left side is where the Silage falls from the Silage Unloader and down into a drag-chain conveyor that carries the Silage the length of a very long trough where the cattle can access and eat it from both sides.
Inside this white tube is a ladder and man-sized doors about every four feet.
As the rotary Silage Unloader works it's way down from the top of the pile inside the Silo, eventually, it works it's way down below the lowest open door; at which point someone must climb the ladder inside the tube and open the next lower door.
They gauge how much Silage is inside the Silo by however many doors are still closed.
One drawback to these top unloading Silos is first in = first out; the freshest, most recently added, is the first to be fed out.
It is not unusual to have three or four "doors" of silage that has been in there for years; it doesn't spoil and the longer it is in there, the better it gets.
The Unloader rides the round inside wall and goes round and round, throwing the Silage out the open door and down the chute.
Inside a Silo is a good place to get killed.