Any wheatbelt country folks here?

[dug777]

New style: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/dug777/DSC_03270001.JPG

Old school: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/dug777/DSC_03240001.JPG

 

[FoBoT]

:thumbsup:

 

[dug777]

Upsies

 

[otispunkmeyer]

if only we had skies like that.... its been non-descript grey cloud for weeks here

when ever you take a pic you have to do 2 exposures just to get some detail in the clouds without making everything else go black. i could buy an ND grad filter, but at the moment i am being cheap

 

[ElFenix]

no wheat here, only corn :|

 

[Viper GTS]

What made them switch from vertical to horizontal?

Viper GTS

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
What made them switch from vertical to horizontal?

Viper GTS

:music: the land down under. :music:

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
What made them switch from vertical to horizontal?

Viper GTS

:music: the land down under. :music:

Grain silos are infamous for tipping over. Edit: You can build these on soil with lower shear strength.

 

[KMFJD]

Does it ever get cloudy in WA? Nice Pics!

 

[jadinolf]

Very good job.

 

[jme5343]

Got 'em every 10 miles or so here. Mostly the concrete vertical style. There are a few of the larger than football size ones for storing sunflower seeds and the like.

AFAIK, the vertical are easier for smaller grains. The horizontal style usually utilize loaders and for filling and unloading the facility. The vertical uses belts and bucket-type bins to get the stuff to the top and then can be gravity fed into trucks.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: jmebonner
Got 'em every 10 miles or so here. Mostly the concrete vertical style. There are a few of the larger than football size ones for storing sunflower seeds and the like.

AFAIK, the vertical are easier for smaller grains. The horizontal style usually utilize loaders and for filling and unloading the facility. The vertical uses belts and bucket-type bins to get the stuff to the top and then can be gravity fed into trucks.

Only our older ones are the vertical type here.

Until recently, most in my part of the world were just huge concrete aprons with a kinda 'wall' around the outside and a tarp over the top, but they're rather dangerous in any breeze, people have been killed and nastily injured when they got whipped god knows how high in the air by a tarp caught in a gust.

So they started covering them, like the first one there.