2/18/2024 0 Comments Grain silo outdoor kitchen![]() ![]() There’s a water casing around the firebox. A Hardy stove works kindof like an electric smoker. He cuts and splits wood almost every weekend in the winter I’ll share the awesome log splitter he built soon. Farmers clearing land push out hedge trees all the time Farmer is always willing to go in and clean up the trees so we have plenty of firewood. It’s great for using as line posts and corner posts for fence because even buried in the ground, it lasts for a hundred years or more without rotting. Hedge used to be just that: a hedge to keep livestock in one area. It burns hot, and there’s plenty of it around the area to harvest. It works great! There’s plenty of room on both sides of the aisle for hedge wood, aka Osage orange, aka Bois d’Arc. Farmer fills the stove before he leaves for work in the morning, and fills it again after he gets home of an evening. The stove is on the north side and the door is on the south. We threaded heavy wire through the anchor brackets on the side of the bin, then tied the wire to steel strap metal before putting the straps down in the holes and filling the holes with cement. We anchored the new woodshed in place by digging three holes, two feet deep and evenly spaced around the bin. The warning light on the side of the stove is visible from here, which is handy on the rare occasion we wake up cold and have to troubleshoot in a pinch. View of the woodshed from our bedroom window. We ended up using the torch cut a hole in the back side of one of the bins, then we set it just a couple inches over the front edge of the Hardy stove, leaving the rest of the stove sticking out the back of the bin. The tall skinny one was supposed to be a woodshed for our Hardy stove, but, well, I destroyed that bin, so we needed a different solution for a woodshed. I needed to take the trailer back within a week, so we had to make some decisions on final resting places for the two complete bins. We brought home two 1,000-bushel bins and the cap from a taller, skinnier bin that didn’t survive when I tried, unsuccessfully, to lay it down in one piece. He rode on top of the bin while I moved it onto the trailer, then unhooked it and rode the loader back to the ground. Luckily, we had brough the torch along to cut the anchor wires.įirst we cut the anchor wires on the bins, then Farmer rode the loader to the top and hooked them onto the boom before I loaded them onto the lowboy. We had to do some quick fabrication on the loader and boom to make it work. We rigged up a long boom on the 4230 to have enough loader clearance to handle the bins, which are 16 feet in diameter. We borrowed my bestie’s lowboy semi trailer and pulled it with our little Mack truck. About 5 years ago, Farmer and I undertook the task of bringing them home and turning them into useful structures again. They aren’t actual ‘government bins’ he bought them brand new, but they are the same size. My grandpa had two empty bins on his place that he gave to me. He is seriously the most organized man I have ever met, which is super admirable to me because my workshop is piles of tools on the bench with no obvious rightful place on the wall or in drawers, and my junk shed is a wreck even if I just cleaned and organized it because I’m like a tornado when I’m creating. My friend Leonard has a super-organized grain bin that is full of spare parts for his farm equipment. And many of them stand perpetually empty. I actually reached out and touched my computer screen because I love pretty old paper.īecause there are more efficient means of grain storage available these days, most of the government bins in the landscape are used for storage of other things: tools, junk, and a few are used annually for fescue storage. Like, the history is there in fo’real typewriter font. Seriously, you should check out the link for the simple fact that it’s all scanned copies of ancient documents. You can read more about the history of the program at. The program began in the 1930s and ended in the early 1970s, when farmers were allowed to purchase the bins from the CCC for on-farm storage. They’re called government bins because the Commodity Credit Corporation, or CCC, a federal program, purchased and built them to offset the grain storage crisis that ensued when farmers’ crop production overran storage capacity available for crops. ‘Government bins’ dot the landscape of the entire country. And the information that is relevant to my junk is fascinating to me, so I love researching all the stuff relating to it. It’s part of my personality…one of my top five strengths is Input, which means I collect information. I love knowing the history behind ALL the junk. ![]() ![]() Repurpose an old grain bin into a gazebo, outdoor kitchen, bar, family hangout, whatever you want to call it.įirst, a bit of a history lesson.
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