Grain Bin accident

[BrokenBackJack]

Bridged grain could cover you up for sure E.

 

[SDMF]

Might be best to put some sort of blender type arm all the way to the top with some beater bars on it, flip that bitch on and agitate it to the auger.

You'd need an electric motor big enough for a train engine to get it moving in a packed-full bin. Not to mention, what would you make it out of that wouldn't bend all to heck?

 

[sl1000794]

I think a good idea would be to always dry your grain and then move it to long term storage so it does not have the needed moisture to clump/bridge up.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Hmmm farmers need a new invention. What if someone could manufacture an inflatable ring around the inside edge of the bin about a foot or two diameter like a huge donut.

 

[Ristorapper]

I'll just put it out there. Spray foam the interior of the bin so it is not corrugated inside? That may not help with the bridging? Or will it? Those corrugated inside walls may be what supports the bridge.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Trying to store grain that is too wet is a disaster waiting to happen. and those silo type steel grain bins were invented back in horse and buggy days and serve only one purpose. If I were a big farmer I'd spend my grain storage money on Quonset type buildings and push the grain to the auger with a loader tractor. Then when you retire you have a place to park your toys

 

[Mr. Stevenson]

I'll just put it out there. Spray foam the interior of the bin so it is not corrugated inside? That may not help with the bridging? Or will it? Those corrugated inside walls may be what supports the bridge.

Previously addressed by SDMF and I agree with both of you.

FUN FACT: You're dead in 20 min dangling from "first gen" fall protection. Your heart "explodes". Wingmen are essential for shit even if they are only good for communication.

 

[7mmMag]

FUN FACT: You're dead in 20 min dangling from "first gen" fall protection. Your heart "explodes". Wingmen are essential for shit even if they are only good for communication.

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[Mr. Stevenson]

^^^^Yes. Upgrade your fall protection and have a wingman Maverick.

 

[sl1000794]

^^^^Yes. Upgrade your fall protection and have a wingman Maverick.

Uah, Maverick lost his wingman Goose.

 

[Mr. Stevenson]

But he gained Iceman after his fall incident and subsequent attitude adjustment...

Let's not let this go off the rail: Much experience/tech/advancement is available to combat the hazards of a big tube.

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I believe work/research should be initiated concerning smoothing the inner wall.

 

[Skeeter]

Previously addressed by SDMF and I agree with both of you.

FUN FACT: You're dead in 20 min dangling from "first gen" fall protection. Your heart "explodes". Wingmen are essential for shit even if they are only good for communication.

Most people don’t know this fun fact. I wear fall protection a lot and my harness has leg straps that I can deploy to stand up in and keep the blood flowing. But if I’m hanging 150ft in the air and can have the presence of mind to deploy and buckle the leg straps is a different story. I carry a very sharp pocket knife with at all times and in my mind I tell myself I’ll cut lanyard before I die of a massive cardiac arrest but who knows if that time ever comes what my mind will do.

 

[sl1000794]

If the grain bridging or sticking to the side of the bin causing avalanching danger is because the grain is too wet, the answer is DRYING the grain out in place, not entering the bin and trying to get the grain falling/moving. Get a 100K t0 150K BTU salamander propane burner and a portable propane tank that can be towed behind your vehicle and fire up the burner with the heat directed into the bin and dry the grain out until it falls of it's own weight. Not ever been a farmer, but if that would work it would be a cheap, safe solution.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

Wouldn't work.

 

[SDMF]

I think a good idea would be to always dry your grain and then move it to long term storage so it does not have the needed moisture to clump/bridge up.

If the grain bridging or sticking to the side of the bin causing avalanching danger is because the grain is too wet, the answer is DRYING the grain out in place, not entering the bin and trying to get the grain falling/moving. Get a 100K t0 150K BTU salamander propane burner and a portable propane tank that can be towed behind your vehicle and fire up the burner with the heat directed into the bin and dry the grain out until it falls of it's own weight. Not ever been a farmer, but if that would work it would be a cheap, safe solution.​

There's a big difference between slowing down a bit moving binned product either to the dryer, a truck, or a different bin vs. slowing down harvest so as to only have thoroughly dried product going into the bin. Harvest would take months if famers ran it all through a dryer prior to storage.

There isn't enough air-flow volume through a portable propane heater. If that worked, big farms wouldn't have those giant dryers and all of the piping and augers to get product into/out of them, they'd just have a dryer on the fan for every bin.

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Hmmm farmers need a new invention. What if someone could manufacture an inflatable ring around the inside edge of the bin about a foot or two diameter like a huge donut.

Are you thinking about a top-down device to beat on the grain to dis-lodge it? Or, a bottom-up air bladder that one could fill and release to break the bridge/sticktion?

 

[PrairieGhost]

I was thinking bottom up to lift, but maybe three or four smaller one tucked into the rib valleys around the side.

 

[fireone]

It isn't that farmers don't know how to condition and handle grain. It's that sometimes they don't do it. NDSU has endless info on the subject and that info is known by anybody in the business. There are no real shortcuts to aerating grain, it just takes time. Dryers speed up the process but add to the expense.

 

[Rowdie]

Hmmm farmers need a new invention. What if someone could manufacture an inflatable ring around the inside edge of the bin about a foot or two diameter like a huge donut.

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