60 year-old came home from US to help with harvest. You know the hole on top of 50 foot steel bin, yep, don’t go near it.
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Farming is a dangerous occupation. Keep your wits about you. So easy for things to go bad quickly. -
After working in elevators and the heavy emphasis put on fall protection - meanwhile hearing the massive amounts of stories of farmers who get injured or die from falls - it’s a big hole in farm safety.
Makes such a loss even more tragic.Comment
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Part of me keeps telling myself I've turned in to a big useless chickensh-t.
I'm learning to be okay with that.
Sympathies to the family.Comment
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The older I get the less I trust my knees and hips. Climbing bins isn't for me anymore, not if I don't have to.
I don't like to hear stories like the one in the opening post. I heard something about it this morning but few details. It happened at a community close to where we farm. Familiar last name to me. So sad.Comment
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My deepest sympathies to whoever that was
I was just up closing bin lids this morning in 60k winds and showers thinking this is stupidComment
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