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Leaning silo
Comer
EPHRATA - How do you
Oraighten a leaning silo?
You jade it up, of course.
That’s what happened this
eek on the farm owned by
lam Zimmerman along
ood Comer Road west of
phrata. The land is fanned
/ Paul Hursh.
Earlier this week, the silo
as still leaning more than
I inches off center. Now,
jinks to the efforts of
adison Silos, of Ephrata,
id an engineer, Benue
anek, from the home office
Wisconsin, the concrete
ave silo is straight and
ue.
The problem started last
d when the newly erected
o was filled with corn
age. The 18 X 70-foot
ructure '“nil hold about 800
is of 55 percent silage,
npty it weighs 50 tons
me.
Unknown to Zimmerman,
10 poured the footer
nidation, it was erected
er a filled-m lime Join. The
iter went down four feet
d the kiln was not co
uriered until a five-foot
rib.
•Vith the added weight of
• silage the silo started to
n. And it started to lean
yard the bam.
Vs a temporary measure,
o nine-foot deep trench
lars containing some 30
rds of concrete were
ured last fall to halt the
m. To show the urgency,
• silo leaned some five
hes from the time the
nches were dug until the
icrete was poured.
"his week then, the final
aightening took place.
■*irst, sections were
«ked out of every seventh
n at the base of the silo
und approximately five
ch of the structure. Seven
;h boles were made on the
ning side of the silo,
nto each of these were
ced 20-ton jacks shored
with oak planking and
>vy metal m-liner plates.
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his is one of seven jat !t were used along
e of silo to raise it back into true upright
ition
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Looking straight up the leaning silo of Wood Corner, you can
toward the barn on Elam Zimmerman farm.
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Surveyor’s transit was used to determine when silo was straight. At this point,
jacking has not begun and there’s still a definite lean to the structure.
is straightened
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