Your carpentry gift from your father is very precious. My father died when I was 2 years old. I have had numerous mentors but have lost the most precious gift that a father can give. Now I rely on my Heavenly Father. Now it's the precious times with Him that makes me happy.
Excellent video, again very informative thank you. I hope sometime you make a quick video showing us the parts of that electric riding the tractor you showed in this video and describe how you put it together.
Hi Charlie , the quick answer is no there is no plans but I can help you with the dimensions... I edited this video and put it on youtube so my knowledge of how to build this would not be lost. Originally ( back in the 70' and 80's) the grain bin was designed around the maximum size a circular roof could be built and yet remain strong enough to withstand the enormous weight of 3 feet of wet snow on top of it... You cut a 4x8 plywood into a wedge shape, (with the least amount of waste material) all other dimensions followed from that. The door and chute are built on site to the customers needs. There must have been 1000's of companies building these wooden bins across the land and selling them to small farmers. Honestly I have built so many of these bins the building plans are simply in my head , and yet I have never seen a building plan... but the design is completely focused around existing dimensional lumber. For instance 16 foot timber for the floor, 8 foot timber and plywood for the walls and 4x8 sheets for the roof, although we did put a steel roof on this one.... it just so happens that the width of a 16 foot floor nearly matches all other small steel grain bin's in North America so adapting to a steel bin roof is pretty easy. Oddly enough the 16 foot floor width dimension is also very accurate in lining up the walls ( linearly ) with the least amount of waste, a 15 foot floor would have needed the walls cut back whereas an 17 foot floor would need another 2 studs with a small strip of plywood added in. As well the 16 foot floor design was tried and tested by a million farmers nation wide to have withstood the enormous pressure at the base from the grain trying to push out the walls. Build your floor 16 feet wide and then follow the video, the rest will fall into place guaranteed.
What a great video, i'm brazilian and we have a lot of problems with storage here, how big can i do this with this kind of materials? How many tons are possible to storage?
Wow! This is pretty awesome. Never put much time into thinking how something like this could be built, but you're breakdown shows how simple it really can be when tackled as individual parts. The plunging circular saw trick was pretty cool too for making the circle... Did you ever consider a plunge router on a big circle jig for the job as well?
@@solarbrianyvonne I always wondered what anyone could use a 4" long spiral upcut bit for... Now I know haha. Definitely enjoying your channel. Thanks!
Great teamwork. Fascinating to watch you work so fast. You make it look easy. You also obviously have good communication skills between the two of you. Thanks for another interesting video. What would all the materials approx. cost you? What do you paint the outside of it with?
Thank you for you kind words... I think the price of lumber has gone up significantly in the last year, but it used to cost us about $1200.00 per bin . Paint is just an exterior water base, any color but not black, it would heat up the bin too much in the summer time.
4 inch spikes coated for the floor! Yes they will hold , don't use a nail gun. The walls need metal strapping or the bottom of the wall will blow out. if you look closly in the video I have already installed 1 strap at the very bottom.
Hi Lauren building this with a wooden roof you will need ... 30 sheets of 4x8 plywood 3/8 40 planks 2x6x16 30- 2x4x8 30- 1x6x8 lots of nails or screws, copper wood treatment for the bottom, outdoor paint for the walls and roof sealer paint for the roof. You can paint a wooden roof or put on a steal roof or shingle a wooden roof , its completely up to you and the materials you have access to and the constraints of your budget . This building is 16 foot wide, so calculating its square area it will equal just over 200 square feet. A circular building gives you the greatest square feet of space ( for the same amount of material) , can withstand much higher wind speeds and roof loads compared to a square building. I have often thought of building a circular home with1200 square feet of space that, ( because of its design ) would be hurricane resistant. Happy building! :-)
@@solarbrianyvonne going to try a project this summer. I have a bender for making 12 foot hoops with chain link top pipe. Thinking I can make 12 ft diameter rings attached to a layer of 2 by 4 welded wire layered with 1 inch by 1 inch welded wire mesh to make a 10 ft tall corn crib. The foundation for your project would work well with it I think.
Hi Nat This is a very good question . Round buildings are used for grain storage for several reasons . 1. Round buildings are much stronger than rectangle or square buildings. With the amount of pressure ( 20 tones of grain ) the weight of grain will push on a square wall causing it to blow out the bottom resulting in structural failure. A round wall can withstand way more stress. 2. Round buildings hold more volume of grain per material used to build it ( more economical) with a square building you will use more material to build but hold less grain. 3. Round buildings are stronger in earthquakes and wind storms as the whole round wall structure is interconnected and can withstand more force. 4. Farmers leave their grain bins empty for half the year ( till next harvest) Round buildings are not subject to the same horizontal wind shear forces and will remain standing even if empty because the wind goes around the wall compared to a square wall the wind force can be strong enough to push the building over ( when empty )
@@solarbrianyvonne just watched your cleaning grain video, so It looks like quite a bit of that in the bin is shaft and trash seeds. In this day in age people just don't think about how much work goes into a loaf of bread.
@@HallHomestead I will tell you a secret, in the chaff there is a lot of junk but there is three hundred pounds of of an oil seed called "wild mustard" we separate it out and put it in our pellet stove and heat our shop all winter long for free! .... so because we don't spray our fields for weeds we get high quality food and free heat!
Would be curious to know the cost of this, getting setup to farm this year and this has to be the biggest “how the hell” if you cant stor you loose a ton of profit even at small scale
Cost is easy 1/4th the price of a steel bin but depends where you live and the price of lumber. Go to a lumber supplier and price out these items. 5 -4x6. 20 sheets of 3/8 plywood. 20-2x4. 30-2x6 some nails and paint. The bin is 16 feet wide and 14 feet high.
You say that you can store grain at a higher moisture level than a steel bin. Can you tell me how high you can go (% moisture) that you could store corn? Also does where you live affect that maximum moisture level?
HI Mike Corn can be stored safely at between 13 and 14 % . Where you live will determine how much you can push those numbers. I live in the North and we can sometimes get -40f / -40C temps here in the winter, this extreme cold helps us greatly because cold temps cause the grain to dry over 1 winter season, so I can put the grain in the wooden bin at 15% moisture in October and by November the grain is already frozen, then by spring time April / May the grain will be between 12.5 and 13.5 .... the freezing of the grain helps preserve the grain and stop it from spoiling when its at 15% and the cold dry air causes the grain to dry down all on its own, you cant do this natural drying with a larger bin larger than 1350Bu or a Steele bin or if you live in a hot tropical location or if you live near the ocean.
Hey Aussie we use a grain auger , the same auger we full the grain bin up with grain from the back of the truck , we just stick the auger through the bin door and start it up.
Where did you get that roofing metal? and wondering what the floor diameter is, looks like about 16ft Great video my wife and I watched it together... looks like electric tractor in my future!
HI Les the Metal was purchased at an auction a few years ago, just some left over bin material that some company wanted to get rid of , I bought 4 steel roofs for $35.00 bucks total because no body else wanted to buy just a roof, I guess they wanted the walls and floor too! the auctioneer started at 2000 but nobody bid so the price kept dropping ... so I put up my hand and bid 35 and to my surprise got it. Yes the floor is 16ft wide, it is the correct dimension to get the most out of the walls without any waste material.
Nope , I found the roof panels at an auction. I bought 3 complete steel roofs kits for 45 bucks because nobody else bid on them . The nuts and bolts were missing so I just had to buy the nuts and bolts at a different store.
When i was a little kid, grandpa brought me to your place and helped you build one. Probably around 20 years ago.
Evan !hope you guys are well... Yes Grandpa does enjoy teaching , I am glad you had that experience. Thanks for leaving a comment !
Didn’t realize there was so much work involved into a wood bin. Where i am you see these old wooden ones everywhere.
Very cool wooden grain bin. I have seen old wooden grain bins on farms like this that I would like to move to my place and turn into a tiny house.
Agreed ! A home built in a circle will use the least amount of material and give you the most amount of space.
This is one of the best things I have seen in so long! You guys are amazing!
thanks for your kind words and for stopping in .
This video is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you to you both for sharing your wisdom!
Your carpentry gift from your father is very precious. My father died when I was 2 years old. I have had numerous mentors but have lost the most precious gift that a father can give. Now I rely on my Heavenly Father. Now it's the precious times with Him that makes me happy.
Indeed we all need good mentors, we count ourselves as being very blessed with what we have.
Thanks for sharing this very helpful and instructive video. Cheers from the top of the mountain.
Hi from cold Canada! thank you for stopping in !
Excellent video, again very informative thank you. I hope sometime you make a quick video showing us the parts of that electric riding the tractor you showed in this video and describe how you put it together.
Hi Alex , sure I can make one about it.
Hi Alex, I just posted one for you
Great video!!! Really enjoyed watching it:)
Hi Maria ! thanks for stopping in and commenting !
Curious if you have any written building plans available for this?
Hi Charlie , the quick answer is no there is no plans but I can help you with the dimensions... I edited this video and put it on youtube so my knowledge of how to build this would not be lost.
Originally ( back in the 70' and 80's) the grain bin was designed around the maximum size a circular roof could be built and yet remain strong enough to withstand the enormous weight of 3 feet of wet snow on top of it...
You cut a 4x8 plywood into a wedge shape, (with the least amount of waste material) all other dimensions followed from that. The door and chute are built on site to the customers needs.
There must have been 1000's of companies building these wooden bins across the land and selling them to small farmers.
Honestly I have built so many of these bins the building plans are simply in my head , and yet I have never seen a building plan... but the design is completely focused around existing dimensional lumber.
For instance 16 foot timber for the floor, 8 foot timber and plywood for the walls and 4x8 sheets for the roof, although we did put a steel roof on this one.... it just so happens that the width of a 16 foot floor nearly matches all other small steel grain bin's in North America so adapting to a steel bin roof is pretty easy.
Oddly enough the 16 foot floor width dimension is also very accurate in lining up the walls ( linearly ) with the least amount of waste, a 15 foot floor would have needed the walls cut back whereas an 17 foot floor would need another 2 studs with a small strip of plywood added in. As well the 16 foot floor design was tried and tested by a million farmers nation wide to have withstood the enormous pressure at the base from the grain trying to push out the walls.
Build your floor 16 feet wide and then follow the video, the rest will fall into place guaranteed.
What a great video, i'm brazilian and we have a lot of problems with storage here, how big can i do this with this kind of materials? How many tons are possible to storage?
Wow! This is pretty awesome. Never put much time into thinking how something like this could be built, but you're breakdown shows how simple it really can be when tackled as individual parts.
The plunging circular saw trick was pretty cool too for making the circle... Did you ever consider a plunge router on a big circle jig for the job as well?
A plunge router , yes but the bit has to be longer as the material is 3 inches deep when you cut the collar
Thanks for commenting and stopping in.
@@solarbrianyvonne I always wondered what anyone could use a 4" long spiral upcut bit for... Now I know haha.
Definitely enjoying your channel. Thanks!
thank you merci beaucoup c'est exactement se que je chercher.
Great video, thank you
Thanks for watching!
@@solarbrianyvonne you're welcome
Wish I had space to build myself one
Thank you for sharing .. New friend here to stay.
Thanks for coming we subbed you too!
Great video much love xoxox
thanks for stopping in! we crazy cannuks need to stick together.
@@solarbrianyvonne yes we do:)
Much love xoxox
looks like a good sturdy bin
indeed ! it holds lots of grain to make loaves of home made bread
Great teamwork. Fascinating to watch you work so fast. You make it look easy. You also obviously have good communication skills between the two of you. Thanks for another interesting video. What would all the materials approx. cost you? What do you paint the outside of it with?
Thank you for you kind words... I think the price of lumber has gone up significantly in the last year, but it used to cost us about $1200.00 per bin . Paint is just an exterior water base, any color but not black, it would heat up the bin too much in the summer time.
Interesting channel just subbed
Thanks for stopping in!
Looks Awesome! so just nail and glue for the bottom that will hold the grain?
4 inch spikes coated for the floor! Yes they will hold , don't use a nail gun. The walls need metal strapping or the bottom of the wall will blow out. if you look closly in the video I have already installed 1 strap at the very bottom.
Hi! Do you have a supply list by chance for this? Thank you so so much!!!!
Hi Lauren
building this with a wooden roof you will need ...
30 sheets of 4x8 plywood 3/8
40 planks 2x6x16
30- 2x4x8
30- 1x6x8
lots of nails or screws, copper wood treatment for the bottom, outdoor paint for the walls and roof sealer paint for the roof. You can paint a wooden roof or put on a steal roof or shingle a wooden roof , its completely up to you and the materials you have access to and the constraints of your budget .
This building is 16 foot wide, so calculating its square area it will equal just over 200 square feet.
A circular building gives you the greatest square feet of space ( for the same amount of material) , can withstand much higher wind speeds and roof loads compared to a square building.
I have often thought of building a circular home with1200 square feet of space that, ( because of its design ) would be hurricane resistant.
Happy building! :-)
Wouldn't be much trouble to put some rat wire between the base flooring and the plywood.
yes that would be a good idea
@@solarbrianyvonne going to try a project this summer. I have a bender for making 12 foot hoops with chain link top pipe. Thinking I can make 12 ft diameter rings attached to a layer of 2 by 4 welded wire layered with 1 inch by 1 inch welded wire mesh to make a 10 ft tall corn crib. The foundation for your project would work well with it I think.
why does it need to be a round silo? Can we not cut cost by making a square one instead?
Hi Nat
This is a very good question .
Round buildings are used for grain storage for several reasons .
1. Round buildings are much stronger than rectangle or square buildings. With the amount of pressure ( 20 tones of grain ) the weight of grain will push on a square wall causing it to blow out the bottom resulting in structural failure. A round wall can withstand way more stress.
2. Round buildings hold more volume of grain per material used to build it ( more economical) with a square building you will use more material to build but hold less grain.
3. Round buildings are stronger in earthquakes and wind storms as the whole round wall structure is interconnected and can withstand more force.
4. Farmers leave their grain bins empty for half the year ( till next harvest) Round buildings are not subject to the same horizontal wind shear forces and will remain standing even if empty because the wind goes around the wall compared to a square wall the wind force can be strong enough to push the building over ( when empty )
@@solarbrianyvonne thanks for the enlightenment. keep good works and all the best.
Wow that looks like a hard core build. How many acres of grain does it take to fill that up?
Hi Hall, depends on the grain and on the yield but I would say on a good year 60bu per acre oats, about 20 acres of crop land .
@@solarbrianyvonne just watched your cleaning grain video, so It looks like quite a bit of that in the bin is shaft and trash seeds. In this day in age people just don't think about how much work goes into a loaf of bread.
@@HallHomestead I will tell you a secret, in the chaff there is a lot of junk but there is three hundred pounds of of an oil seed called "wild mustard" we separate it out and put it in our pellet stove and heat our shop all winter long for free! .... so because we don't spray our fields for weeds we get high quality food and free heat!
Would be curious to know the cost of this, getting setup to farm this year and this has to be the biggest “how the hell” if you cant stor you loose a ton of profit even at small scale
Cost is easy 1/4th the price of a steel bin but depends where you live and the price of lumber.
Go to a lumber supplier and price out these items.
5 -4x6. 20 sheets of 3/8 plywood. 20-2x4. 30-2x6 some nails and paint. The bin is 16 feet wide and 14 feet high.
You say that you can store grain at a higher moisture level than a steel bin. Can you tell me how high you can go (% moisture) that you could store corn? Also does where you live affect that maximum moisture level?
HI Mike
Corn can be stored safely at between 13 and 14 % . Where you live will determine how much you can push those numbers. I live in the North and we can sometimes get -40f / -40C temps here in the winter, this extreme cold helps us greatly because cold temps cause the grain to dry over 1 winter season, so I can put the grain in the wooden bin at 15% moisture in October and by November the grain is already frozen, then by spring time April / May the grain will be between 12.5 and 13.5 .... the freezing of the grain helps preserve the grain and stop it from spoiling when its at 15% and the cold dry air causes the grain to dry down all on its own, you cant do this natural drying with a larger bin larger than 1350Bu or a Steele bin or if you live in a hot tropical location or if you live near the ocean.
Cool Video C'mon!!
thanks !
Awseome build one question though how do you get the grain out
Hey Aussie
we use a grain auger , the same auger we full the grain bin up with grain from the back of the truck , we just stick the auger through the bin door and start it up.
@@solarbrianyvonne oh ok cool I really liked the build
What length do you cut the studs at?
96 inches minus 1- 3/4 from the bottom and 1.5 inches from the top
Where did you get that roofing metal? and wondering what the floor diameter is, looks like about 16ft Great video my wife and I watched it together... looks like electric tractor in my future!
HI Les
the Metal was purchased at an auction a few years ago, just some left over bin material that some company wanted to get rid of , I bought 4 steel roofs for $35.00 bucks total because no body else wanted to buy just a roof, I guess they wanted the walls and floor too! the auctioneer started at 2000 but nobody bid so the price kept dropping ... so I put up my hand and bid 35 and to my surprise got it.
Yes the floor is 16ft wide, it is the correct dimension to get the most out of the walls without any waste material.
@@solarbrianyvonne LOL that's awesome... Doubt I'll find that deal!
@@leskraut2462 yes it was a deal, buy low and sell high
@@solarbrianyvonne On that note, have you thought of calling it a yurt and selling plans?
@@leskraut2462 not really.. do you think anyone would buy them?
Did you cut the roof panels yourself (metal)?
Nope , I found the roof panels at an auction. I bought 3 complete steel roofs kits for 45 bucks because nobody else bid on them . The nuts and bolts were missing so I just had to buy the nuts and bolts at a different store.
@@solarbrianyvonne very nice !! i'll keep a look out at my local auctions. Thank you !
would you build me one