At 80' in diameter the 12 bins making up the structure would be about feet long for the bins alone. That's fifteen feet in S scale. If I'm right as to the diameter of the bin to be around 18 feet then an easy way to model them would be to use 3" PVC pipe. With an outside diameter of 3. Thank you, I appreciate your insight. To me, the compressed look is exactly want I want to avoid on structures. I have viewed many O Scale and HO grain elevators in the past 40 years and they just do not look right to me.
I want the structures on my layout to be scale. The first ever concrete one is still standing in Wayzata, Minnesota. It's just a simple cylinder with a crown around the top. I work in these elevators. You see less than half of each bin. So if the silo's are feet tall in real life X. Just take all measurements in real feet and multiply by. Skip to main content. How big would is this grain elevator be in S Scale?
Swafford Member. Good Day, I need you help please. Regards, Frank Are my measurement conversions from scale feet to inches correct?
Images 1. A driveway gives access to the work floor. A dump scale and office are located outside the elevator. A truck loaded with grain stops on the scale, is weighed, and continues to the work floor. Grain is dumped from the rear of the truck. The wheat falls into the pit where it is moved upward to the cupola along the leg by a continuous belt with flat backed buckets attached.
The grain is directed to a bin by the spout, which may be moved among the bins. They are vented, silver, corrugated steel structures fatter in diameter than silos and have varying heights.
Silos are also cylindrical, but are commonly made of concrete, bricks, metal, and sometimes even wood. Their tops are usually dome-shaped, and they tend to be narrower and taller than grain bins. Grain bins are commonly found on grain farms or at elevators, whereas silos are at farms with cattle. Next time you spot these structures, will you know the difference?
They can be distinguished by both size and shape as well as what they are used to store. A silo is typically used for storing grain or silage while a bin usually holds dry matter. I always drive by a farming community that has both grain bins and silos. Now I know that silos are the tall skinny structures, and grain bins are the corrugated steel structures that store corn and soybeans. Other than corn and soybeans, what other dried commodities are typically stored in grain bins? It seems like they could be used to be stored a lot more types of grains and dried goods.
Thanks for the information! Thanks for clarifying the difference between silos and bins. I grew up in rural farming communities but always thought that all of the storage facilities were silos.
If I am understanding correctly, silos are used to store wet fodder while bins are for the dry stuff? If grain bins are different because of the construction materials being made of corrugated steel …what were they made of back before that material was readily available?
I will make sure to look more into this as I look for ways to store grain. Thank you for the clarification and the time you took to write this. I would imagine the views from the top of these taller silos is amazing. Much more rewarding than that of say a 27 story building in a city. These are laid flat, spiked through one another, and overlapped at the corners.
Cladding of one-by-six-inch lapped boards is used for both subtypes. Distinctive features of the iron-clad wood elevator include tie-rods extending through internal bins that are anchored to horizontal braces on the exterior walls and the galvanized iron or tin cladding applied to the exterior walls.
Cladding was used for weatherproofing as well as to protect the wood from sparks discharged from coalpowered locomotives passing nearby. The design and scale of the iron-clad wood elevator include a rectangular-shaped workhouse, forty to sixty feet high and surmounted by a two- or three-story rectangular full or partial headhouse approximately fifteen to twenty feet high. Gable roofs are common for both workhouse and headhouse.
Internal features include up to as many as twenty cribbed bins of various capacities for storing and blending the grain, the boot pit the central dump that receives the grain , the wood elevator leg the shaft that houses the beltand- bucket conveyor system , the distributor wheel that directs movement of grain to various bins, and the wood spouting system that channels grain to bins or load-out chutes.
Depending upon the size of the structure, total storage capacity ranges from 10, to 50, bushels. From the beginning of commercial agriculture in the Great Plains, the iron-clad wood elevator was the primary hub for the grain storage and shipping industry.
Railroads often provided land right-of-way for its construction as well as grain cars suited for transporting locally produced grain to distant markets.
Because of the skyrocketing insurance rates for wood elevators, elevator owners and builders experimented with other materials, such as steel and clay tile. Concrete, however, became the material of choice by because it eliminated the twin dangers of weevils and fire and thus reduced insurance costs.
Cylindrical-shaped concrete structures were an engineering innovation when introduced to the grain industry. The slip-form technology used in their construction produces a tank in one solid and continuous piece of concrete without joints and patches.
The technique consists of a concentric double-ring form into which concrete is poured. As the concrete in the lower part of the ring sets, the forms are jacked upward, and more concrete is added.
This process is continued until the desired height is reached. The walls, six to eight inches thick, are reinforced with vertical and horizontal steel rods I beams.
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