kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
Most are switching to hopper bottom bins. Unless they’re big barstewards that have bin sweeps installed. Grain vacs are also common. Shovelling is only done by guys who have prioritized other things and are willing to get in and shovel.
Transferring is for quality control. Core the bins to help cool them down, stay on top of bugs and heating. Get a check on quality. Make sure nothings going on inside.
Safety issues are usually complacency. Local guy here died last fall because he fell trying to jump from one bin to the other. That’s hardly the bins fault... In most cases you can’t fix stupid. Guys go years getting into bins and never have an issue so they keep doing it. But unfortunately one day there is an issue and they’re working alone or it’s just so catastrophic that it’s a big issue. If we ever go into bins at work it’s with air monitors, harnessed up, with SRLs to pull us out and at least 4 people on the “job”. It’s treated as a confined space. OH&S hasn’t reached that level with the on farm version.
I'm not knocking bins at all, it's more the safety culture at farm level, not just in North America but some of the things these YouTube farmers do are flat out dumb.
You see more multi purpose on floor storage in the UK because the building can be used for many different things, including outside of Ag if the owner wants.
At the end of the day you do what's right for your situation.