- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I saw a picture on here somewhere of a tele handler lifting cylinder, where the cylinder split, dropping the boom, bang, at least if a pipe bursts there can be a check valve in the line to slow the rate of drop, but not in that instance ~scary to think about what the consequences could be. We are all so used to working with hydraulic equipment.Don’t know about seed but we use a sickle modified with a long steam-pipe handle to open fertiliser bags standing safely to the side. It needs sharpening every 60 to 100 bags opened to minimise the effort required. No stretching over the hopper side and reaching under the raised bag to open them with a penknife allowed under any circumstanced and the boom stops on the skid steer engaged every time without exception in case a pipe bursts.
That is a very good idea, using a sickle, I always used to think, this is not safe as I was opening bags with my knife.