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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1766941" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>We are using concrete blocks similar to those for the sides of the silage bunker we are putting in. 30x100 and then set the blocks to act as forms rather than form and put the blocks on the floor because the concrete has gone through the roof. Wound up with a 26x93 length; 6 inches thick. Blocks are 2wx3hx6L ft (?maybe 2x2x6?) and weigh 3800 lbs each. Can haul 4 at a time on the trailer. Takes the backhoe to move them and set up... have 1 row all the way around 3 sides and 1/2 the second row up. Got a bunch setting ready to put up. Corn chopping this week so need to push it. 45 yds concrete in the floor; had 48 3/4 yd total... did a base for a water trough where it was broken up and water leaking and used the last little bit to do an apron to go into the barn where the skid loader kept digging out the gravel, and fixed another place where there was a drop off from the concrete to the field and some broken concrete from the previous owner letting things go. With the cost being so much higher than 2 years ago when he was thinking about it, but didn't have the closing on the farm done.... 9,000 in the concrete and probably about the same in the blocks... planning 3 high. But the bags we were using have gone up so, and renting the bagger and having to have trucks with a side unloader to put the silage into the bagger; figure it will pay off in 7-8 years. Can always use the concrete pad for other stuff if he stops doing silage too. </p><p></p><p>Looks like a nice working facility and under cover is a big plus....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1766941, member: 25884"] We are using concrete blocks similar to those for the sides of the silage bunker we are putting in. 30x100 and then set the blocks to act as forms rather than form and put the blocks on the floor because the concrete has gone through the roof. Wound up with a 26x93 length; 6 inches thick. Blocks are 2wx3hx6L ft (?maybe 2x2x6?) and weigh 3800 lbs each. Can haul 4 at a time on the trailer. Takes the backhoe to move them and set up... have 1 row all the way around 3 sides and 1/2 the second row up. Got a bunch setting ready to put up. Corn chopping this week so need to push it. 45 yds concrete in the floor; had 48 3/4 yd total... did a base for a water trough where it was broken up and water leaking and used the last little bit to do an apron to go into the barn where the skid loader kept digging out the gravel, and fixed another place where there was a drop off from the concrete to the field and some broken concrete from the previous owner letting things go. With the cost being so much higher than 2 years ago when he was thinking about it, but didn't have the closing on the farm done.... 9,000 in the concrete and probably about the same in the blocks... planning 3 high. But the bags we were using have gone up so, and renting the bagger and having to have trucks with a side unloader to put the silage into the bagger; figure it will pay off in 7-8 years. Can always use the concrete pad for other stuff if he stops doing silage too. Looks like a nice working facility and under cover is a big plus.... [/QUOTE]
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