Old Wooden Farm Elevator
Feb 16, 2016 09:12:17 #
My wife grew up on this old farmstead in central KS. This is the elevator. it is built of wood and had several storage bins. Barn owls made their home in the upper most part of this building. This was taken with a 2mp Fuji Film 2600 on 24-NOV-2004.
Feb 16, 2016 09:15:27 #
Highplains Coyote wrote:
My wife grew up on this old farmstead in central KS. This is the elevator. it is built of wood and had several storage bins. Barn owls made their home in the upper most part of this building. This was taken with a 2mp Fuji Film 2600 on 24-NOV-2004.
Nice one.
Feb 16, 2016 09:16:36 #
Feb 16, 2016 09:17:53 #
Thats a great photo w/o the family history, with it it is waaaaay better, get a frame and hang it! :thumbup:
Feb 16, 2016 09:21:30 #
Highplains Coyote wrote:
My wife grew up on this old farmstead in central KS. This is the elevator. it is built of wood and had several storage bins. Barn owls made their home in the upper most part of this building. This was taken with a 2mp Fuji Film 2600 on 24-NOV-2004.
Nice picture for a 2MP camera thanks for sharing.
Feb 16, 2016 09:22:15 #
BassmanBruce wrote:
Thats a great photo w/o the family history, with it it is waaaaay better, get a frame and hang it! :thumbup:
Wow, thank you BassmanBruce. This is one of maybe three photos I have taken that I feel I got it right or lucky... :-)
Feb 16, 2016 09:23:14 #
RichardSM wrote:
Nice picture for a 2MP camera thanks for sharing.
Thank you RichardSM.
Feb 16, 2016 09:54:51 #
Feb 16, 2016 10:10:14 #
Highplains Coyote wrote:
My wife grew up on this old farmstead in central KS. This is the elevator. it is built of wood and had several storage bins. Barn owls made their home in the upper most part of this building. This was taken with a 2mp Fuji Film 2600 on 24-NOV-2004.
Really nice photo with a great amount of significance for your family.Congratulations for preserving the building's character.
I have a 3mp Fuji that I still use from time to time myself. It takes nice photos, too.
Feb 16, 2016 10:14:10 #
Nice shot!!
If possible, I would like to see how the wooden elevator works and what it looks like.
Pat
If possible, I would like to see how the wooden elevator works and what it looks like.
Pat
Feb 16, 2016 10:47:10 #
Feb 16, 2016 10:49:19 #
jaymatt wrote:
Really nice photo with a great amount of significance for your family.Congratulations for preserving the building's character.
I have a 3mp Fuji that I still use from time to time myself. It takes nice photos, too.
I have a 3mp Fuji that I still use from time to time myself. It takes nice photos, too.
Thanks, Jay
I just found my old fuji in a box of stuff and am gonna see if it still works. Very ez to use and did a decent job too.
Feb 16, 2016 11:09:05 #
Jay Pat wrote:
Nice shot!!
If possible, I would like to see how the wooden elevator works and what it looks like.
Pat
If possible, I would like to see how the wooden elevator works and what it looks like.
Pat
Thank for looking and commenting, Pat.
I do not have any pics of the internals. Basically you pulled a wagon (this was built when horse power was the king) into elevator, there were sliding doors on each end so you could drive through, then unload gain from wagon into a grate in the floor. There was a conveyor belt, powered electric motor, about 8 inches wide with metal pans (much like a bread pan) attached every foot or so, to it running through the floor and up through the wall into the cupola then dumping into a hopper. The hopper was funnel shape and the grain would be directed to selected bin by means of a metal pipe attached to the bottom of the hopper that swiveled. I think there were 6 bins in this elevator. I never saw this thing operate. It had been several decades unused when I lived there with my wife.
Feb 16, 2016 11:17:51 #
Highplains Coyote wrote:
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Yep. That's how they worked. This is the same principle used in modern-day grain elevators.
Feb 16, 2016 12:25:02 #
Highplains Coyote wrote:
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Thank you!
I'm not around these old buildings.
Pat
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