Silo

This weekend I am NOT TEACHING!

It's awesome.

On our list of important things to do

was a run up the highway to our

little feed supplier.

They have a bunch of silos

full of the grains they grind and

mix fresh for us.

We have always wondered how they fill them with grain.

And today we got lucky enough to find out!

This trailer is full of soy bean meal.

See it pouring out of the little hole in the back.

Making a little pile.

And the pipe to the left?

That is a little vacuum!

It sucks the meal up through the pipe and

then through the next pipe

and over to the silo.  

It is quite the system!

(And a LOT of weight to be resting on those

rear tires... they are a little squished...)

Naturally Rod found the truck driver

and had a good visit with him.

He said normally it doesn't take too long

to off load all that meal,

but because of the old and unique

system they have here,

it takes several hours.

He still needed to run over to Plant City

to pick up and load and then was

heading back up to Georgia.

It was pretty fascinating!