Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds (1907)
Radford, William A., 1865- · Chicago, Ill. : Radford Architectural Co. · leaf 36
er than to fatten steers for themarket. The silo is sixteen feet in diam-eter and thirty-two feet high with a twelveinch cement wall and a pit that reachesthree feet below the surface of the ground. rods connect all the floor joists and all therafters. This makes a circle of three quar-ter inch… … Three feet is deep enough to give a goodsolid foundation and it is deep enoughwhen you come to pitch the last silage outof the bottom. The frame-work of the barn is verylight. The silo is used to support the mid-dle and the barn really is braced from ev-ery direction. Every side is both a braceand…
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