STEEL POST^ 



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Fig. 44. 



8 cubic feet 

 per running 



foot 



In this method of stable storage of sawdust, it is possible to store 8 

 cubic feet of sawdust for every running foot along the floor. In the 

 barn shown at the left, wood supports are used in place of the steel 

 posts pictured in the drawing. The sawdust is shoveled into this 

 storage bin from the window, the same as in Fig. 43. 



mow and made provisions for draw- 

 ing supplies on the stable floor by 

 gravity as needed (Fig. 40). In two 

 instances the sawdust was blown into 

 the storage. In another two in- 

 stances it was shovelled from the 

 truck which had been driven onto the 

 hay mow floor. The storage bin 

 should be lined with tar paper or 

 other material to prevent rot of barn 

 timbers. One man, in remodelling, 

 provided a concrete ramp (Fig. 41) at 

 the end of the barn. He can unload 

 conveniently and the sawdust is 

 available through large doors from 

 the stable to the concrete storage. 



It is important to have large stor- 

 age supplies conveniently located so 

 that trucks can be unloaded easily 

 and the material made available at 

 a handy place. Sawdust can be 

 loaded on trucks and unloaded by me- 

 chanical means. Securing and haul- 

 ing of sawdust has become a major 



problem on many large farms. In ex- 

 treme cases, as much as 14 hours of 

 man labor have been involved in one 

 truck load of sawdust — ^due to wait- 

 ing in turn at the sawdust pile, the 

 long haul of 40 or more miles, and 

 the hand shovelling involved in load- 

 ing and unloading. 



The interest of the industry would 

 be advanced by the development of 

 special custom services in which one 

 operator develops special equipment 

 to load mechanically at the sawdust 

 pile and has his truck equipped to de- 

 liver mechanically and quickly to any 

 storage bin. 



On two farms fairly large supplies 

 of sawdust were stored in the gutter 

 alleyway along the outside walls of 

 the stable. For example, in a newly 

 remodelled barn the old structure was 

 40 feet wide. The operator built two 

 rows of stanchions with cows facing 

 in. This left a very wide alleyway 



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