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Would we have found one of those 30'-40' high corrugated metal grain bins
alongside a wooden grain elevator in the '50s?
QUESTION:Would we have found one of those 30'-40' high corrugated metal grain bins
alongside a wooden grain elevator in the '50s? Or were those bins a '60s thing?
ANSWER: -Those corrugated 'Butler' bins have been around since maybe the late 40's.
There should be no problem adding them to a 50's grain elevator.
-I would say more of a 60's thing. They realy didn't catch on till the
70's, or at least they didn't in my area. I can still recall helping shell
corn out of a wooden grain storage buildings in the mid to late 70's, out
at my granfather's and uncle's farms.
-Oh, I think they were around in the 50s. The government bins were
all metal and they were around when I was a kid. I worked for a
feed mill and had to empty some in the late '60s. . . and they were
torn down in the early to middle '70s after I had moved on.
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