Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . PLAN or ^ILO ferent heights. If larger silos are built itis a good plan to use enough four foot andtwelve foot lengths of staves so that youhave only one joint to two solid staves onone level. Where only two lengths areused as in this plan the joints and solidstaves come alternately, but even thismakes a very strong structure when thehoops are pulled up tight as they shouldbe at all times. The staves should not be wider thaneight inches. The edg
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . PLAN or ^ILO ferent heights. If larger silos are built itis a good plan to use enough four foot andtwelve foot lengths of staves so that youhave only one joint to two solid staves onone level. Where only two lengths areused as in this plan the joints and solidstaves come alternately, but even thismakes a very strong structure when thehoops are pulled up tight as they shouldbe at all times. The staves should not be wider thaneight inches. The edges should be straight RADFORDS PRACTICAL and true, the bevel carefully made on asticker and turned up with a hand pointerby a competent workman. The bevel isvery important. Where the edges of the venient to use staves all of the same may be from six to nine inches wide,but they must come in pairs or sets ofthree of the same width together. Wherestaves are used of different widths thesystem of numbering shown in the draw-. ih /(. /J-- if-: ^ S u cznmT rouNDATioN CROSS SECTION Of SILO staves come together the joint should beperfect from insid^ to outside and fromtop to bottom of the silo. It very often happens that it is not con- ing will be found very useful. Staves areall cut to size and length and numbered,they can then be loaded on a wagon andhauled to the building site and laid out onthe ground in proper order. There willbe about seventy-five eight inch staves ina silo sixteen feet in diameter. The doorframe takes up about three feet of the ~i—r
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