Nine decades later Glen Mabee is still going strong

07.07.11

At first he earned only $1 per day for want hours of heavy labour but he was learning a useful trade and hoped to own his own construction company when he gained enough savvy. Glen Mabee built over 200 concrete silos throughout the local farming community and when we tours through the beautiful farm countryside we see a lot of his cement towers. Today, in his 89th year he continues to run his own business, operating his backhoe, bulldozer and toss out truck but he no longer builds silos. In the old days, many of the big storage cylinders were made of wood and held together by iron bands in the same way that the old wood rain barrels were built. After the Second World War there was a considerable demand for silos, so young Glen Mabee found profession in this construction work.

Source: Blue Mountains Courier-Herald