On Highway 15. The perforations tell me that they started life as cribs, the fans installed at the end of the troughs tell me that they have been converted to shelled corn/bean storage.
-- Edited by Art From De Leon on Sunday 6th of July 2014 04:18:29 PM
I was at a farm sale near Pottstown, PA about 12 years ago, and on that farm was a crib similar to these. It had been used for ear corn right up to the previous year, and appeared to have been built with a fan system. Only one like it I've ever seen in my travels, and I've seen a lot of old cribs in the past 20 years (sadly many were right before they were knocked down).
I was at a farm sale near Pottstown, PA about 12 years ago, and on that farm was a crib similar to these. It had been used for ear corn right up to the previous year, and appeared to have been built with a fan system. Only one like it I've ever seen in my travels, and I've seen a lot of old cribs in the past 20 years (sadly many were right before they were knocked down).
I had not considered that possibility.
I wish I had taken the time to get pictures of other cribs that I have seen.
Those look like the same general design as several double or quadruple cribs down in my neck of the woods. The side are built of that same perforated concrete, usually with a drive-through equipment storage between them and what looks like the ear corn version of a grain leg over top.
There are a few of that design here in southeast SD also and there must have been a couple different companies building them as some are painted white and some are unpainted as in your photo. Though these are the first I have seen setup with fans.
