The short answer is no. And for the record, I was ticked off when we were offered a class on grain bin rescue. Simple.....rope and come a long, or man power...what could be simpler?
It was one of the best classes I ever took. If a 200 pound man is buried to his chest, it takes nine hundred pounds of lift............YOU spine seperates at fifty.
Troubles usualy involves grain out of condition, and a person should know better, but we all know how that goes.
During the demistration we had several guys that we buried up to their waste. Not a single person could get out on their own, and very few that were in just over their knees.
The answer as of now, is a very expensive tool...It looks like a culvert, that comes in three pieces, and interlocks as you shoe it down around the person. Then scoop the corn away from the person.
Walking on old upside down plaastic milk cartons, was one of the biggest suprises of the training..works great, and no compaction to the trapped person.
I'm not for government control any more than the next guy, but I think every grain farmer should be forced to take the class.
I prefer that they simply make a video, and show the farmers what is going down..........Once they realize the isssue, most farmers would take the class on their own. There was not a single person that I talked to after the class that regreated going.
There was stupid parts........like doing knots that unless you did them every week, you could never remember them. Our fire training involves the same knots............not a single person could tie the fancy knots in a emergency situation.
Few people realize all the training that firemen should take, as they must respond to so many different emergencies. Like anyone ever taken a class on how to tear apart all the different cars, and trucks without injuring someone, or killing them? No standards in the industry to speak of for disarming air bags.
The learning is all good, but it is so over powering to the mind. And grain bins are getting bigger every year.
If you grain farmers have the class offered, give it a go........you will be surprised how little our old thinking was right.
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