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<blockquote data-quote="Angus Cowman" data-source="post: 811628" data-attributes="member: 8829"><p>we used trench silo's in our area for yrs </p><p> some had concrete floors and some had concrete floors and wall </p><p> if you are going to pour walls they need to be 8" thick with lots of re-bar for reinforcement or the weight of the dirt on the outside when the silo is empty can collapse them </p><p>if you pour a concrete floor before putting the sileage in lay a platsic tarp down both sides of the pit and let it go onto the floor for a couple of feet so the sileage goes over the bottom </p><p> then when the silo is fillled you can fold the tarp over the top we did this in sections as our plastic was only 50ft wide </p><p> we always weighted ours down with tires and it worked really well</p><p></p><p> some had dirt floors but you need to make sure the floor is sloped to the front of the silo so the excess moisture can drain out or else you will have a pond in the silo and a real mess </p><p>my dad built most of them in our area when I was young I spent many hrs riding on the dozer with him while he was building sileage pits</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angus Cowman, post: 811628, member: 8829"] we used trench silo's in our area for yrs some had concrete floors and some had concrete floors and wall if you are going to pour walls they need to be 8" thick with lots of re-bar for reinforcement or the weight of the dirt on the outside when the silo is empty can collapse them if you pour a concrete floor before putting the sileage in lay a platsic tarp down both sides of the pit and let it go onto the floor for a couple of feet so the sileage goes over the bottom then when the silo is fillled you can fold the tarp over the top we did this in sections as our plastic was only 50ft wide we always weighted ours down with tires and it worked really well some had dirt floors but you need to make sure the floor is sloped to the front of the silo so the excess moisture can drain out or else you will have a pond in the silo and a real mess my dad built most of them in our area when I was young I spent many hrs riding on the dozer with him while he was building sileage pits [/QUOTE]
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