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nw NC | I have a 20X50 Ribstone stave silo built 1973. When we built it, a capacity chart from Ribstone showed 410 tons of 70% moisture corn silage. Putting that moisture silage in it, it will drain juice big time. Moisture of 65% and less drained little juice. We could always put about 90 wagon loads of about 4 tons per load of lesser moisture silage into the silo taking as much as 10 days total of filling time. We filled it to 48 feet and let it settle over night then blow another load or two each day over the next days until it settled very little overnight. 90 loads at 4 tons load is 360 tons. Our unloader needs minimum 2 feet room at top of silo to get unloader started operating, so 48 feet of usable silo height.
A chart I found online
Edited by WJKEIGER 4/3/2025 07:01
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