How to move a big Silo?

[wacm]

rent a forklift and a few heavy straps and it would be pretty easy. rig it from the top. secure the two legs that will pivot when you tilt it over. drive backwards and let down at the same time. you might have to take the mast off the lift to get clearence above the silo. we demo and install milk silos all the time this way.

[Jaspro]

I really think you will come out cheaper, labor wise, by making the door larger.

Is the tractor in the pic the largest you have? You are correct in that those bins don't weigh much. I hauled 2 to the recycler last summer and loaded them with a 72 HP John Deere Tractor with front end loader. Shouldn't be too hard to put a bucket up next to them and slowly let them down on to a trailer.

[Cajun Blake]

Call Buck Medley

I vote to raise the roll up door to the next highest cross beam

whoever built your metal barn should be able to give you a fair quote on the modifications and new door


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[Shiner]

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[WoJo]

Have a BBQ for about 50 of us and we will get them moved!!!

[doublearrow]

Have a BBQ for about 50 of us and we will get them moved!!!

Judging from what I've seen that would be approximately 100 times the amount to raise the door height.

[J-DAWG]

Put an axcess door in the roof and put a flex tube on the auger and that should work. I used to work for a feedstore and that is what we had to do at a local ranch. That's the easiest and least expensive route. You can buy the flex tube at TSC or any lumberstore that carry culverts or plumbing supplys.

[bltiger]

I'm liking the access door in the roof and either running a flex tube or chicken wire rolled into a cylinder from the roof into the top of the silos and just putting the feed through the roof! Maybe just a latching skylight that opens up when you need it to.

[mesquitecountry]

rent a forklift and a few heavy straps and it would be pretty easy. rig it from the top. secure the two legs that will pivot when you tilt it over. drive backwards and let down at the same time. you might have to take the mast off the lift to get clearence above the silo. we demo and install milk silos all the time this way.

We do the same thing at ours and did the same thing on all of our chicken house silos years ago. We had roughly 75 at one time. The silos are actually pretty light they're just awkward. How big are they? They look like 18-20K silos.

[JTS]

take the roof off, lift them out with a crane and set on the side of the barn, then put the roof back on.. ooops, forgot to look at the picture again, to many rafters in the way.

I vote for the larger door to solve the problem. Nice to get feed out of the weather in the barn during season....

[Lonestar_HOYT]

Have the feed truck come in from this end of the barn, it looks wide open.
LOL Just kiddin. Good luck with your project.

[keep]

I might consider framing out for a larger door, unless You really did not want them in there

Or cut a 8" drop "ramp" out of the foundation that goes in through the door. Maybe even just let the air out of their tires fill them once they are in and repeat for the way out.

[keep]

never mind the air thing I just read it on another post.

[Devin]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see it being tough using the barn supports to rig a pulley to lay them over? Then a trailer if you have the clearance, or a few of the heavy furniture dollies or a pallet jack to roll them to the door..

[Dave W]

I agree with Mesquite except to use an extended reach forklift. With the extended reach you can put the boom over the top of the silo and use straps to lean it over and drag it out.
We use those type forklifts on construction sites all the time.
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