Never Climb in Grain Bins
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- A day full of emptying bins, hauling corn and getting back in the field after this last rain. Climbing in Grain Bins is never safe but it's just one of those things that needs to be done and comes with the job of being a farmer.
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As the son of a fellow farmer I love how your videos are strait forward and show what real American farmers deal with dangers everyday
I use to build, service, and repair grain bins and their equipment for GSI. I can't tell you how many times I've had to replace/repair unload augers because the farmer didn't check for those crusted clumps. They don't always just plug up the basket. I've also had to climb into countless grain bins, some full, some not so full, and I have this to say... Thank you! Thank you for using your head and knowing when it's safe to climb in,and thank you for taking care of your bins. Unfortunately I rarely had the luxury of climbing into a full bin that hasn't been unloaded any yet, just to do some vital service work or repairs so the farmer could get back to it. Scary as hell not knowing the conditions below the surface. Safety couldn't be more important.
Our bin has a cheese grader on top of the gear box. Downward pressure breaks up the dry chunks. Frozen chunks...we built a box that clips into the spout of the unload auger. It has a hole the same size as a small aeration fan...add a diesel heater....15 min and your in business.
Hey Mr millennial, I'm from eastern part of North Carolina, and I'm a machine operator around the farm. We runs such a large operation and grows alot of crops from tobacco to beans! And I enjoy every moment of being out in the fields working. Right now I'm in the process of cutting winter wheat! I've been following you on RUclips for the past year or so and you seem be such fun guy to work. If I was out in the midwest, I show would like to come work for you. You have some good fancy equipment to work with and that makes a difference on the farm. And such a huge and nice updated shop to work in doing winter months. Keep up the good work! I'm about to get my day started and I'll get back with you a little later on.
You did what you had to do and did it the safest possible way. Glad to see your accepting your corn stand and condition, we here in west central Indiana only have maybe 20% of corn in ground.
I'm glad you finally found your restroom I was worried someone stole it during the winter months
These videos are the reason I want to be a farmer when I grow up .
Love your work keep it up
You are one busy fella! Thank you for all you do on the farm and taking the time to film it all for us!!
Yep, I still bang my head getting into my truck also. We never learn.
Glad to hear your son plays baseball. Best sport in the world. My son started legion ball this year.
I noticed there was someone outside the bin that knew you were inside. 👍
Greg O yeah that will do a lot if he sinks in there lol..
crashingkid just about to say the same thing lol
When someone is on the outside typically they know what your doing and how long it will take. Buddy system saves lives.
Not much the person out side could do, if things went wrong inside the bin, other than alert the body recovery crew. Not even wearing a harness to make sure the body doesn't make it the auger. I'm pretty sure a load of grain with mince meat would be rejected by a buyer. Yea I get there are potentially dangerous things that need to be done. I live in Ag. country, and worked in the oilfield. I'm aware of plenty of it's got to be done, that went wrong. Unfortunate, but it's a part of life.
In the event the person inside the finds themselves surrounded by grain will have a slow death. The first time they exhale more grain pack around the, preventing them from inhaling again, even if their head is above the grain. In general three minutes without are we are dead. Their are situations where the buddy system isn't effective. There are cases where six buddies dying, trying to rescue a succession, of victims. Buddies are great, but they need to understand when they may be putting themselves at risk, and have the resolve, not to endanger themselves and others.
It's weird to think that without RUclips I would have never met you and now I know so much more about farming.... HAPPY FARMING MR JOHNSON!!
Working back on our farm years ago I found grain bins weren't so bad - so long as augers not running. But grain sheds.... yeah, never walk out on grain heaped in a shed. I found out the hard way, up to my waste and drifting down, used the grain shovel I was using to shift grain about to sort of spread my weight across the grain until I managed to squirm my way back on top. Looking back, proper dumb world thing to do, but a valuable lesson for sure!
Love how folks from around the world are tuning in, Zack
"Look at this sweet jump!!" HAHAHA!! You were flying man, Id say 6 maybe 7 mph.... bookin!!
#launchedit
Young mans game. Love all your equipment. Never thought of tires getting puncture. So you run track
In my hometown (Germany) the corn plants are already 40-50 cm high! So it's very interesting to see how difrent the plants grow
It's like watching an art painting tutorial. very satisfying and therapeutic. Maybe mowing grass is closes thing I'be done to running a combine. I live just 30 min from SF
I'll never forget when I was 8 or 9 and I told my dad that a friend and I were playing in a nearly full corn bin. I still remember the uh...scolding (that's putting it very mildly) that I got. Haven't been in one since.
Lost my good friend Dave, our trucker inside a grain bin when the unload auger was running. Was not good. Don't ever go in a bin when the unload is running!
Similar conditions in Arkansas. Dad and I planted 118 tomato plants last weekend which was the first dry weekend this year. We've had 2 rains since then so we can weed the garden.
Keep up the good work.
Meanwhile in South Carolina the corn is up to almost tassling size but it's burning up in the field due to lack of rain.
Watching you from Maine . I'm a dairy Farmer and love your videos. Keep up the good work
Im 46 years old when i grow up i want to be a farmer. I would love to be able to run tractors be a jack of all trades like you fellars are.
Hey Zach, glad to see you can get into some of your fields. I live in Central Indiana, right now only 24 percent of the crops are in, at this time of year it should be 96 percent. We’ve had so much rain it’s a muddy nightmare. Glad you make these videos, shows non farmers like me the struggles farmers have to deal with. Keep up the great work, looking forward to your next video!
America is mudy like hell for 2 years and in Germany we would like looking for your rain and snow.
That year rain in May was better but not enough for the loose from the last year we got.
I remember up North you had more rain than you needed. Down here in Central Texas it wasn't that wet. A friend of mine has about 6,000 acres of winter wheat every year.
No telling what this winter will bring.
Never climb in a grain bin! Especially after your flakey first season employee runs over the unload auger, and then overfills your stirrator bin. Jokes aside I had to shovel that bin 3x daily to keep the stirrator going a few years back until I got parts. Keep the videos coming, you do a great job Zach!
Just want to let you know that your doing great!!!!.----> More than anything!!!----> Peace&Love to you and to all of your wonderful family friend's and loved one's.
That “sweet jump” scene was fucking hilarious 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
If you still need to fix your tile plug up problem then you should put good size gravel around the tile inlet. That should help.
Great video, as always! Work on the farm is full of dangers - and we always do our best to stay safe! Best wishes!
You could wear a belt and have a cable strapped to you. The straps could be mounted with spring loaded spoolers or have a winch line with a wireless remote. A person outside is always advisable and the minimun safety pre-requisite and the first precaution to take
You're right about grain bins being dangerous, but it was safer to breakup the crust before you start than having to go in and find the clumps later on. Glad see the cultivator kicking up dust instead of mud. (I told Mike Less the same thing.) Keep up the good work and the good videos!
Rocks are growing well polished and solid.
You guys are figuring out planting, While we Herr in Germany Start to think about harvest in 4 weeks...
Just finished planting our corn . Long hours no days off ik how you must feel . Now on to chopping alfalfa
Nice catch on that twine, will eat a bearing seal up quick!!! 👍🤘🏻
My corn over here on old continent, southern Poland specificly, is coming out really slow, even tho its already a month in ground, theres some spots where corn has rotten out.. sigh, we had since late april to 25th may over 207 milimeters per square meter (thats around 8.1 inches)of rain where usual monthly rain should be around 50 to 60 milimeters, and on top of that its been coldest may since ages, as You said corn doesn't like such conditions.
Keep up the good work, Zach, love Your videos.
Your farm always has a lot going on, busy, busy....
@MN millennial farmer I'm just amazed of your knowledge!! Wish you all the best
Even though you said you guys hadn’t pulled anything out of that bin, I was still nervous just watching you walk across it. Just had it pounded in my head about walking in grain bins. And I still tuck my shoe strings in and cut my hoodie strings off as well and am not even around a farm anymore.
😅😅🤣
You gonna write your self a confined space permit and JSA👍🏾
CBS Sunday Morning, I believe is what you're referring to. Awesome program if you're up that early
Cant stand when people comment on something they know nothing about. Good job guys. I'm a dairy farmer in BC
Another awesome video zack keep them coming very informative be safe an keep up the good work
Zach, your soil looks a volcanic and rich as our Puyallup Valley. I’m sorry about the moisture content in the ground, though. I’ve got my fingers crossed that the Texas Sky Ball does its work. Love the vids.
I knew a man who sunk in the grain. Couldn't find him so we just hit the side of the grain tank with front end loader and let the grain just run out on ground but it was to late he suffocated thought of it every time I climbed in to a bin since
We just had that this year ,the old chap got into the grain bin and sank ,they ripped it to bits but it was also too late
May they rest in peace
My dad had a cousin had the same thing happen to him... We he came out my dad being a pre teen happen to be standing at the hole he came out 🙁
happens every year.
Safety lanyards - no?
Yeah, wet everywhere in Ohio.
Keep up the great videos and God bless you and your family.
Can't thank you enough for you
And your family for the work and the videos. Tell your Dad I said hello. Your fan from Va
George
Deltaville, Va
The Batco plant is in my home town of Swift Current Saskatchewan. Our farming environment is much different than yours. Interesting watching different stresses that you face. The only similarity is that there is timed weather stresses aside from how the government stresses add to the picture. Good channel dude.
After spending the day cleaning up debris from a tornado in area we were fortunate enough to finally get into the fields today!!!
Been there, done that...not ideal, but you do what you gotta do to get it done...
If it were easy, everyone would be doin' it...
Thanks Zach. We need a longer video
Love your sense of humor. Thanks for all that you do at showing the rest of world just what farming is all about. Love the channel.
Man... here in southeast Indiana around me still very little in the field. 2 or 3 days a week ago were dry enough to get in the field then more rain. But at least a record number of tornados came with the rain.
Zac, how about a body harness like the roofers use and a rope hooked to a point at the ladder or entrance hatch just in case and for your safety and your families. would take you five minutes to hook up with no help!
You got to make a homemade crust buster to set over that center sump hole you won't have to worry about chunks.
The fields next to where I grew up had some of those grass basin and a new farmer came in and plowed right threw them , rain came and they had a 10ft washout about 300ft long .😣
Great video Zach, thank you for being friendly to the planet :)
Lock out tag out, disconnect the auger from power and get to cleaning. I wish i was still farming, grew up farming and yea its just one of those things that needs to be done.
And the Twins are really kicking butt this year too
Sure are!!
You do what you have to do sometimes....but just be extra careful.
Planted my first corn today in southern West Virginia been warm n wet got sprayer stuck too,least ain’t dusty
Glad to see didge getting around good!
Back in the day my grandpa would send me up to do what you did only he made me tie a rope around my waist and to the ladder just in case! Lol. I lost a cousin in a silage silo , it gave way in the middle and the gas’s overcame him , so it’s real dangerous in those but you know all of that , that’s why your a professional farmer ! We have sandy rifle loom here in Anoka County and it actually looking good thus far ! It perks slower but good . SKOL BUD !
You should send some of that rain here to us in northern Alberta Canada most of northern Alberta is burning right now
We just got 4 inches of rain in 2 hours in NW Ohio
Worked in a grain elevator for 7 years back in the 80's. We didn't have side options. We all went to the top and crawled in. I know they say it's a no no now but we were in with the aurger going. We had safety rules for that but it was mostly common sense. Didn't always climb without a harness either. Different times so I know what you're talking about.
I literally get sad when the videos are over and I have to wait for another one lol
Did you have a little moment of relaxation at 2:00? I heard it
Tracked Deere is my favourite of your Machines...No idea why. Just everytime i see it, it makes me happy. #getmyselfcheckedoutbyapsychologist.
Hey Zach, have you considered implementing any of the conservation practices that you discussed on your field work podcast such as strip till? Love the podcast btw. Thanks
I can understand needing to enter a bin occasionally, but I really feel a life line is needed any time you enter it. At least then if the bottom breaks through you don't go with it. Just a simple self retracting lifeline would do the trick. Plus, I probably wouldn't mind having a gas monitor with me either.
Just had a buddy get killed in one of these a few years back; really worries me seeing you in there without a lanyard. Dirt nap or corn nap, it's all the same.
For the farm sounds on the radio, you need to have a John Deere “B” pulling under load. Bring a tear to an ole Man’s eye.
So much material from you. Trying to catch up to your Pod Cast. Thank You
George
Deltaville, Va
I used to have a rope tied around my waist, and, i never went in after i started to unload. never had any problems either, but, folks get killed every year in bins.
Absolutely love your vids! I play a farm sim game and your vids are giving me a whole new fresh look at the reality of farming and such.
Quote of the year: “this isn’t a google article, this is real life”.
Would a harness in a line via the top not be a solution?
Anything is a risk. I guess it all comes down to Risk Mitigation. What is the bigger risk. going in and checking/clearing it first or not and then getting an uneven empty therefore risking bin collapse. But like anything never do anything alone. Others where there, knew you were up there and more importantly knew you were in there. I guess some would argue ok where was the safety line in case did go down....but the real world is not always like a book. Thank you for all the vids you do. Greatly appreciated.
@10:25 Hope you were wearing your seat belt for that sweet jermp!
Oooo the pup got ya right in the goads.....ouch!!!
when my dad used to farm (he retired this year, 2018 was our last) due to me being the youngest I would usually be the guy to climb up and jump right into the bin without thinking twice, due to the fact we never usually had trouble with our bins and if a problem were to occur, dad would probably set up a tether system or do it himself because he would want to put himself in danger before me. Also we didn't have fancy stairs or fancy corn transfer systems. In fact, we didn't even have a platform outside the bin at the top of the latter. But we managed.
It's good to see "the real world" in action.
Great video! I'm glad that you guys are able to get back in the field!
This is the best channel I have ever watched
Great video Zach. We need some of your rain, down here in East Tennessee..
Just give it a few days and plant winter wheat instead of corn.
Corn seems like... so much more work than wheat. Granted, never farmed corn, and I'm grateful for those who do, but I'm not sure I'd be very patient with it. Wheat was always our go to (it's TOTALLY not because nothing else grew well enough or anything!!! 😂)
Zack, I am an Agronomist from Wisconsin and the Farmers are also have that same problem.
Anna is growing fast!
You guys actually have safety cages on your bins I’m the youngest so I get to run up and down the bins and we don’t have safety cages so your life is in your hands when you climb up the bin just love my job (side note I wouldn’t give it up for all the money and power in the world
Glad to see y’all have managed to tame the giant fire ball🤣🤣🤣🤣we are still trying here n indiana lol!!👊
Burt Brooks I live in Indiana
Thank you🙏🙏
I wish I could climb in grain bins in fs19 to see what would happen
😂👍
Me too
Same bro
You can just get a vehicle and make the driver side next to it and exit the car
same bro
the new dog is getting big and is looking very good as well
Entertaining as always !!!! Really enjoy your work, with your wife’s help of course 👍
Awesome vid as always, i have JD envy, could have done with JD 9560 rather than 8530's when we were dragging earth scrapers cutting a glass house site.
when one field is bigger than a lot of farms in the UK :D
You can wear a safety harness when climbing into a grain bin. Better to be hassled than dead.
Been in my grain bins many times when I was farming
Only takes 1 time...my brother died his first time in a grain bin .
@@toledojeeper2932 We lost a good friend in a full bin too. Ever since we use a safety harness and clip in to a cable that is strung across the top of the bin. With the harness and a brake tree climbers use there is never more than a few feet of slack in the system. As a added bonus its also a safety for climbing the ladder outside of the bin and literally takes a min to clip in and use.