There is a wonderful old vitrified tile silo four miles from our house. It is all that remains of an abandoned barn lot. The silo sits on the boundary between a soybean field and an old woods.
We drive by this location often, and BBBH and I have had some interesting conversations about a dream of building a home on this spot and incorporating the silo into our new digs. I'll not rehearse the silliness of our "plans" but I will say that we have come up with some great ideas!
Less than a mile due south of the tile structure is the farm of a dear friend of ours. This old banded stave silo sits about an hundred yards from the house. There are numerous modern structures between the house and the silo. I am sure that Little Jo Ann could have told us the history of this silo, but she passed away this summer. As many times as we visited this farm, it never occurred to me to ask about that.Go visit Sharkey's silo.
(Apologies for the photography. These pictures were taken within five minutes of each other, but I had to shoot into the sun on the first one.)
6 comments:
I had no idea what vitrified tile was so I googled - interesting but tile silos are even more interesting and way prettier than the metal ones...
I like your idea about incorporating the old silo into your house. It will come out as modern "vintage". You might like to build a stair to the top as you see, the view looks more beautiful up there. Who knows, your place once landscaped into a country scenery will attract passersby and will eventually turn into a "tourist spot'. Bingo! Australia corporate grain farms are known for their old and modern silos. I like them built in columns.
Grace, it is funny the rabbit trails bloggers follow. I spent part of the day exploring old tile silos on the internet. They are interesting.
Leah, the house,of course, is merely a pipe dream (having nothing to do with the pipe-like shape of a silo *grin*), but it is fun to think about. The view from the top would be quite nice.
I'll have to search through my old photos and find one of the silo at our first house. The silo was corrugated asbestos panels. Wooden pieces cut to fit the curve and fill the corrugations went round the outside and were held in place by steel bands. I've never seen another like it.
This silo thing begins to get under your skin! I have found that Butler also made a metal plate silo. So I'll need to go to "mine" again and see if it says MARTIN on the other side. Chuck's sounds very interesting.
Chuck, many styles and materials used, all to feed the stock in the winter.
Sharkey, yep; another trip for you.
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