firestones

 

While on a photographic field trip, I told my city friend Margaret to look at those Firestones.  She thought I was referring to a technical term to describe silage bunker coverage.  Then she exclaimed, "Oh, they're tires!"  After chopping corn or grain stalks into silage, it is piled into bunkers.  To prevent oxygen from seeping into the pack and spoiling the feed, the silage is covered with plastic.  To hold the plastic in place, tires are universally used -- although there are other commercial applications.  This dairyman apparently uses the "any old tire" method; however, I found an online discussion about the benefits of whole tires versus sidewalls versus splits.  Now Margaret knows that is not a hill on the flat Texas landscape, it's a cow pantry.

 

Lamb County, Texas

2006