Unloading - The Beginning

So.  After ten months and lots and lots and lots of cleanup, we have begun to build again!  The first step, unloading part of the materials. Take a look:

A "before" look coming up to the farm.  You can see the cattle barn, but there was once two silos, a cattle shed, machine shed and a big "horse barn" before the tornado went through.  The horse barn was huge and hand built, used to keep the horses in way back in the day when horses were still used for field work.  The legacy of that barn can never be replaced.

Just a closer up view.  The new silo sits on that concrete pad in middle and to the right of the picture.

Up bright and early to greet the part of supplies that were in the first delivery.  

Paul was the silo builder expert and delivered the load, which had, among other things, the doors that go inside the silo chute, the pipe that goes on the outside to blow silage up and into the silo, the dome and all the rerod that, along with the concrete, is the main support of the silo.

Just another look at the pad where the silo sits.  The circle you see on the left is the foundation where the silo will actually be built on.  Thankfully, the foundation of the old silo was still solid enough that we could use it.  In fact, the old foundation was preferred because it had been there for so long we knew that it wouldn't settle over time.

Unloading the pieces that will be put together to make the dome (or the roof) of the silo.

These are the doors that go inside the chute.

The pipe that goes on the outside and a cute little photobomber.

And tons of rerod. Or whatever you call it.  I call it rerod, I know some call it rebar.  It's a loose term.  The concrete is poured over the rerod and becomes the skeleton, so to speak, that provides the strength of the structure.