"We can make provisions in the hooping to allow for doors or windows at desired locations," says Hyney. The company sometimes converts wood silos into homes. "Sadly, a lot of people are buying up small farms and tearing the wood silos down. "Another advantage of wood silos is that in cold weather the feed doesn't freeze as much. He says some of his customers have tried bunker silos or bagger-type systems but weren't happy with them. "It's the same concept used to preserve food in a pickle barrel," says Hyney. But the feed that comes out of a wooden silo is often "sweeter". The cost to build a new wood silo is comparable to the cost for a conventional concrete stave silo, he says. The biggest wood silo we build measures 20 by 50 ft." "Farms here are relatively small, and many have livestock. "Wood silos are rarely found any more except in New England, where they're still quite numerous," says Hyney. "About half the silos we build are for working farmers, and the rest are for hobby farmers who just want to preserve an existing silo's appearance," says Hyney. They have three employees and use a self-propelled crane and a specially designed, hydraulic-operated platform to do the work.Ĭustomers can choose from a number of roofing styles including gambrel, conical, standing seams, wooden shakes, and steel domes.
The company, founded in 1965, works mostly on-site in New England and Pennsylvania.
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that still builds wood stave silos for farm feed storage," says Mac Hyney, Hyney & Sons, Fort Plain, N.Y. "As far as I know, we're the only company in the U.S. It was placed by a New York firm that continues to do a thriving business repairing old wood stave silos and building new ones. That's part of an ad we spotted recently in the back of a farm publication.
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