How many yards of concrete did it take? I know of someone who used their elevator to remove one of these crib roof years ago. They were also concerned about the ability of the elevator to hold the weight so they made a cable "truss" in the elevator, fastening the cable near the bottom and hanging it out the top to fasten the roof onto. Then they made a "T" out of 2-2x6" scraps and placed it in the center of the cable span to make the truss.
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Did you use the elevator as a "crane" to put the roof on? Thanks for posting - I'm sure very few people here have ever seen one of these cribs erected (including me)!
Haven't got that far yet. We were planning on it, but now I'm not sure if it will go quite high enough while supporting the extra weight. I know of at least one more of them that got put up this way. If all else fails, we have an old F-600 with a platform(straight up) lift that should do it. It will just need an extension made for the platform. I'll try and get some more pics as we go.
If anyone is curious about the slab, it's about 8 inch thick 6 bag mix with fiber and a few lengths of re-bar.
I have seen them put up with 3 small chainfalls. You take a couple of 2x6's and put a bolt through the end to make an upside down V and hang the chainfall from that. I think they may have also nailed the upside down V's to each other so they would not fall in or out. One you get the roof high enough the braces that were nailed on can be. removed. They put together the roof then raised it until they could put the top ring on. Then they did the same with the second ring. All they used were cheap Harbor frieght type chainfalls.
Put it completely together on ground. We put a long boom on inloader of 4020. Then hooked the boom towards the top and started pulling it up. Also used a skidsteer underneath to help shove it up. Also had a heavy rope tied to a truck to help keep it from going on over
Glad to see you decided on the concrete floor. In my youth, uncle had multiple cribs just sitting on plywood. Those things were a PITA to scoop out, and there was usually lots of rotten corn at the bottom.
One of the neighbors we shelled for actually had two cribs with runways for the feederhouse cast into the concrete. Those things were a dream to shell out, all we had to do when we got down to the bottom was push the corn into the feeder.
