| Show HOISTER FOR THE PIT SILOS arrangement shown in illustration herewith will be found to be quite handy in digging four underground silos a nere ere dug in our neighborhood last tall fall and all are ara successful three of 0 the parties are now planning to dig more this season to the man that intends to keep cattle and chasn t the money to build a silo above the ground I 1 would say eay dig a pit silo the sketch shows the rig I 1 used in digging mine writes C E wooley of calhoun colo la in the farmers mall mail and breeze A Is a box two feet square with a hinged bottom and catch that locks with a pin the trip rope F la is fastened to this pin EBB BBB are pulled pullers s C is a one inch rope used to raise and lower the box D 7 earth holster for silo is a wire cable ind and E a cable carrier the whole thing olie operates rates like a ilay hay fork in raising the earth box and f pulling tilling it along to where it is dumped the trip rope Is drawn through the pulle backwards bick wards until the hook H 1 Is re ached this catches in the pulle and the draft la Is then thrown on oil the trip rope which pulls out fit the e P pin I 1 n halding tile the hinged bottom and the load Is drop dropped ld the drier dm or then cooka the singletree to the trip rope at 11 at aid d draws dravis the carrier and box ba k to the silo |
