Any Guesses What This Building Is

[corydoras]

I didn't know they used silos for peanuts?

Most grains and peanuts are stored in silos. Corn, barley, oats, beans etc are all stored in silos. The one in the picture is not a particularly large one. When I was in the Merchant Marine I served on bulk carriers that used to load up with 1.5 - 2.0 million bushels of grains from silos on the Mississippi in Louisiana (Chalmette?) from silos that were MUCH bigger than this one.

 

FWIW I think that the biggest grain elevator in the world is near Wichita, Kansas.

Edited October 22, 2011 by corydoras

[Phone]

Cory,

 

Kansas is home, Dorothy, Toto, and Phone.

 

Still, I'm not so sure about peanuts?

 

Phone

Many of our old silos are being torn down. They have become quite inefficent. Don't know why really? If I had to guess, I'd say it is the lack of or cost of rail service to many of these small towns.

 

Phone

[Newt]

Phone - Geneva, Alabama so about 3 miles north of the Florida line. Live oaks, spanish moss, pine trees in soil that is largely sand.

[corydoras]

Cory,

 

Kansas is home, Dorothy, Toto, and Phone.

 

Still, I'm not so sure about peanuts?

 

Phone

Many of our old silos are being torn down. They have become quite inefficent. Don't know why really? If I had to guess, I'd say it is the lack of or cost of rail service to many of these small towns.

 

Phone

Not in the USA, but proof of the existence of peanut silos all the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingaroy

[chesters1]

does it store obamas ego? not big enough for bush's stupidity

Edited October 22, 2011 by chesters1

[corydoras]

does it store obamas ego? not big enough for bush's stupidity

Not sure about Obamas ego, but Bush's "stupidity" was an act. Bush was not a silly man.

[Little Roachess]

Newt,

 

It looks like some sort of derivative German watchtower, built skywards for ease of transmittable datad during WW2 days, now defunct. Or similar, though built with such height so as to fool what is hidden Forces Intelligence-wise underground but still in secret use?? Maybe one day we might see the President of the USA alighting from a helicopter and being escorted into the building when the pressure is on through security breach of a UFO kind! ?

 

The mind boggles and quite frankly the building could do with a much needed facelift if anyone is so inclined, or perhaps a much needed bulldozer if anyone is so declined!

 

Newt, it's over to you!

[corydoras]

Newt,

 

It looks like some sort of derivative German watchtower, built skywards for ease of transmittable datad during WW2 days, now defunct. Or similar, though built with such height so as to fool what is hidden Forces Intelligence-wise underground but still in secret use?? Maybe one day we might see the President of the USA alighting from a helicopter and being escorted into the building when the pressure is on through security breach of a UFO kind! ?

 

The mind boggles and quite frankly the building could do with a much needed facelift if anyone is so inclined, or perhaps a much needed bulldozer if anyone is so declined!

 

Newt, it's over to you!

LOL. It's a grain elevator for crying out loud. A big tower for storing dried corn or barley or oats in this case perhaps peanuts in whilst awaiting trans-shipment. The big square bit to the right is the elevator. It has a lift or a conveyor belt in it that lifts the grain to the top of the silo. The structure than runs across the top of the big cylinders houses another conveyor belt that drops the grain into the big cylindrical silo where the grains are stored. No conspiracy theory required. Search Google images for grain silos and you'll find 1,000s of them all around the world. There is a similar structure in Southampton docks, but it has rectangular silos. Next to it is the RHM flour mill that makes flour from it to make bread. The ship in the foreground is a bulk carrier bringing grain to the mill. The grain is stored in the silo until it is ready to be milled. Once the flour has been milled big lorries take it to Hovis bakeries who make bread with it.

 

No conspiracy theory required

 

Edited October 22, 2011 by corydoras

[Phone]

Newt,

 

Damn! Alabama - that's what I meant.

 

Cory,

 

I suspect you are correct that we have them too. My only exposure to peanut farming is from GA all right. There is a river where they dump the ofal (sp?) from the combines. Carp gather in droves in this area. These peanuts are stored for a short time in a crib like afair. They are human grade and great care is taken to avoid aflatoxin.

 

In truth, I don't know how peanuts get "out of the shell"? Only then, I suspect, could they be dried enough to be stored in huge silos. ALL SPECULATION on my part, I don't know peanuts very well. I do know carp don't like aflatoxin worth a dam.

 

Phone

[corydoras]

In truth, I don't know how peanuts get "out of the shell"?

I'd hazard a wager that they use peanut shelling machines

http://www.biodiesel-machine.com/peanut-sheller.html

Edited October 23, 2011 by corydoras