Sad, Sad Story

DRussell · Mar 26, 2018

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/26/father-son-killed-in-collapse-inside-silo-at-wisconsin-farm.html

Very sad story of a father and son killed in a silo in Wisconsin.

Glen SW Wi · Mar 26, 2018

Sorry to say this has happened many times over the years. I would never let the frozen silage get above waist high.

Married2Allis · Mar 26, 2018

What a horrible thing.

Dachshund · Mar 26, 2018

Happened here 3 years ago....
Local Amish boy (then 14 or 15) was inside the silo when a chunk about the size of a small car broke loose above him. He is now paralyzed from T3 down....

John T · Mar 26, 2018

A high school friend who was working at the local Farm Bureau was killed the very same way back in the sixties SAD INDEED.

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4020 electrician · Mar 26, 2018

Last summer in Mid Michigan an Amish 18 yr old was Electricuted cleaning out a grain bin. He was standing on top of bin with a metal poll and put the poll into the high voltage lines above. A lineman drove by the farm 5 hrs later and there was a different lad on top of the bin doing the same thing 😳...

1130Leo · Mar 26, 2018

We always made sure once the frozen ring was about 5', two of us had to go up and break it down. The picture on the article showed both Cement Stave silos and blues, wondering if they were working on a Blue, or one of the cement silos?

1130Leo · Mar 26, 2018

This article shows a different farm all together.... so sad.

JD Seller · Mar 26, 2018

I hate to point fingers but some body was lazy. I never had the silos get frozen more than a door or two. When I change a door I clean the walls down. Even in the coldest weather you can get sunny days that will let the silage come loose. IF not I have used a pick axe many times.

ajl · Mar 26, 2018

In our tower silo when I was a teen, there never was much frozen silage on the wall because the Patz ring drive unloader cleaned it off. Problem is the story is never straight as the reporter has zero ag knowledge. This has been a frustration problem when you hear of an accident and you try to learn from it in order to prevent its reoccurance. I think they may have been working under the silage off the bottom unloading silo in a dig out but that was not clear from the information in the article. Prayers for the family since this is a horrible tragedy.

X-Y switch · Mar 26, 2018

This brings back a scary experience I had back in 1967 while working in Grundy County Iowa. We were shelling out a crib of ear corn when the corn stopped coming down on the conveyer. My boss demanded that I get in the crib and knock the corn down, being very young and eager to please my boss, I climbed into the crib , looked up, ten feet above me there was a ceiling of corn just waiting to come down. My boss is yelling at me to get that corn down, a neighbor, Paul Callaway, looked in the crib and grabbed me by the arm and pulled me out of the crib, explaining to me in no uncertain terms how stupid I was to go into that crib. He went to his truck and got his shotgun and fired up into the lodged corn.
Several hundred bushels of corn came crashing down, scared me half to death. I believe to this day that Paul saved my life that day.

Stuart · Mar 27, 2018

Not everyone is a super farmer like you. And no, sometimes the temp is so cold you will not get frozen silage off the walls. If you do, it is very hard on the unloader

DRussell · Mar 27, 2018

I had a Patz surface drive unloader. There was a little chipper wheel about 4-5 inches in diameter that kept the side of the silo pretty well cleaned off. You could adjust how far away from the silo wall it would run.

JD Seller · Mar 27, 2018

Stuart I am not anything of the sort. I have used top unload silos for all of my adult life. You can keep the walls clean within a few doors at the most. You just need to watch and catch sunny days to clean the walls off.

Truthfully we may be way off track here anyway. It seems the farm in question has some bottom unload silos too. So they may have bee trapped working on them.

4020 electrician · Mar 30, 2018

Horse crap Stu.. I did it at 11 yrs old in Mid Michigan till I was 19. JD Sellers is right. Some one was a little relaxed on the job.

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