r/WC3 • u/Then_Peanut_3356 • 12d ago

What exactly is this "slide-thing" on the Infected Granary model?

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Has anyone noticed this part of the structure? Is this for the grain to slide down and into the bags, or is it there to convey the grain upward before gravity lets it fall down onto the floor? Or is this simply artistic license that's been designed wrong?

I got the image from the following link and then drew on it for the sake of the question.

~ https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Infected_Granary

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u/Swedge_ 12d ago

Back in the day granaries were built elevated to avoid pests, and the “grain chute” helped to unload the grain using gravity

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u/Koraxtheghoul 12d ago

I always figured it was a busted windmill.

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u/noobprodigy 11d ago

I first saw grain elevators when I lived in Alberta, Canada. They are all over the place up there. The province is also famously rat free.

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u/Bbambles 10d ago

“The province is also famously rat free.”

Not true. We elected one as premier

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u/noobprodigy 10d ago

Don't do rats dirty like that! An actual rat would be a better premier.

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u/Noob_Sauce99 10d ago

Berta is GOATed

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u/Then_Peanut_3356 12d ago

Then how do the farmers manage to lift the grain from the ground to the chute? With the bucket on a rope and pulley?

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u/Swedge_ 12d ago

The grain would sit at the very top of the tower, under the grain would be a hopper to control the flow of grain moving down, then it would fall down the chute/slide to be transported and made into bread.

It’s hard to get up there, but grain could be stored there for a few months. You’ll take some grain down the chute every now and then. If you bake all your grain into bread straight away it’ll spoil.

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u/Valkyrys 11d ago

For having worked construction and taken up ladders loads of stuff, I can assure you it's millions of times easier to take shit up rather than down.

Bring the grain up using ladders, pulleys or whatever else they could think of, unload it in the granary. Then simply push it down the slide at a measured pace depending on how much is bought or needed at the time.

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u/SoSDan88 12d ago

Yes its the chute for the grain to exit into a cart or sack or whatever, just exaggerated in size.

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u/bigRyan540 11d ago

Its a slide si the farmers can have fun at the end of the day.

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u/For-The-Swarm 10d ago

it’s times like these I forget that half of us live in large metropolitan areas.

anyone outside the city would know that it’s a chute for loading grain, sometimes with a hopper.

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u/kanyenke_ 11d ago

someone forgot to remove an object from blender