Posted by Super B on September 23, 2008 at 07:27:22 from (4.224.78.59):
And how many have worked on bins that have had grain in them for bout 2 years,, and have problems when they dont unload. How about an old setup that hasnt been used in a long time, and have to go in and rebuild the drying floor, clean up, etc etc, to be ready for use. How about getting ill after a season of work. Or say having to help work inside the bin, working on a stirrator, or unplugging a loaded bin, from the dust etc from the air inside the bins?
Ive always used some sort of mask, or respirator, but sometimes its not enough to keep the air good enough to keep contaminates out. But being in one for 8 or more hours working, its hard to not keep from some kind of inhalation, or skin contact with the stuff inside the bins. So, I usually end up feeling real bad for a few weeks after a job like this.
Ive been in this line of work for many years, worked side by side with my dad, and at one time, the shop he worked for was the only place that offered that kind of work, and had so much business, that we were in 5 different bins a week, and sometimes more on service calls. Id say it was like that for years,, and after a while, things get all fixed up and the run for a long time with little problems, so work slows down. And some of the bins Ive been into would make ya puke from the smell alone from the stagnet air in a full bin on a 80+degree day. Not all the times we wore respirators,,, some times we were in and out with a quick repair,, but not always. Id say 50% of the time we went in with nothing at all, as far as masks, respirators.
While searching the web, I ran across a story of a guy who was a millwright, and had taken ill and they found a fungus of somesort that had built up in his body from years and years of exposure. A good freind of mine had gotten ill a while back and had it too in his lungs, when he decided to sell off the corn in the bin, and was inthere for about a year and a half, and plugged up,, and he worked for days in there to unplug it. Soon after that, he was ill enough that he had to be carried to the car and to the hospital. Hospitals were dumbfounded!!! Never seen this before!! Needless to say, he went somewhere else and found treatment and good diagnosis, and he is fine today. His dad called me yesterday and told me a story that had happened to him years back too. I was kinda inshock when he told me this,,, and I never knew this was possible!
I dont work on bins anymore,,, a while back, I found it to be that if I go up inthere for even 5 minutes, I feel ill a few minutes after being in one. I wonder now if I have this fungus built up and should go get looked at. My dad is like that too,,, he seen more time than I had, but I was young, and seemed like then I could hack it and be fine,, but that was a long time ago too!! He would be ill for weeks, sometimes months. He went and had a test done and they found this fungus all over inside him. He is in treatment for it,, and the doc said that I should be checked for it too being that I worked side by side with him.
Any fellas on here ever been in this situation??? How bad can this fungus infection get, and what am I looking at if real damage has been caused by it? No DR around here knows,,, most are under the age of 35 and using computers seem to be the trick fix for anything,, needless to say I dont want to go to a place that dont know what they are seeing. Right?? Figured asking on here cause first hand experience is found more with experience that it has happened to somebody before. See what Im saying?? Thank you and any info would be greatly appreciated.
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