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re: Rescue underway to save 2 men trapped inside Arkansas grain bin.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 9:41 pm to GeorgeReymond
Posted on 7/26/16 at 9:41 pm to GeorgeReymond
I did not read the report, but from the photographs can tell you that those guys are amateurs and idiots. All of them.
First, you never, ever, ever walk across stored grain. It can form a crust that can break from under your weight. If that happens you will fall into the grain below and the sides of the stored grain will collapse and bury you.
Second, why did the rescuers only cut a small opening at the bottom of the bin? They should have cut several at varying heights.
I know this because when I was 16 years-old my father pulled me out of a high school basketball game and took me to help "rescue" a man who had done exactly what I just described and he knew a lot better than to do so.
We dug him out with shovels, but he was unsurprisingly already dead.
First, you never, ever, ever walk across stored grain. It can form a crust that can break from under your weight. If that happens you will fall into the grain below and the sides of the stored grain will collapse and bury you.
Second, why did the rescuers only cut a small opening at the bottom of the bin? They should have cut several at varying heights.
I know this because when I was 16 years-old my father pulled me out of a high school basketball game and took me to help "rescue" a man who had done exactly what I just described and he knew a lot better than to do so.
We dug him out with shovels, but he was unsurprisingly already dead.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 9:47 pm to BayouBengals18
I work at a rice dryer/mill. I hate to go in bins but sometimes you have to for cleaning,etc.. The metal farm bins actually they do cut into the sides to let the grain out and relieve the pressure sometimes.The grain is not ruined you just have to augur it in trucks or another bin to clean up. One of our plants has a rescue deal that you drive down around the person to relieve the pressure. It's dangerous work for sure. Our safety people stay after us to keep the dust down because of the explosiveness. Our bins are concrete and much bigger than most farm bins. A ventilated farm bin shouldn't explode.
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