So sad!!! Farmers are truly some of the best people in the world and I guarantee their loss is a huge tragedy for their community! God bless the family and the community!
My deepest sympathies to these good hard-working people and their families. My heart goes out to them. These men are the people that help put food on our table. They help feed the country. This is a great loss. Godspeed.
I am grieved to hear of this tragedy. Farming is a calling, and these gentlemen served us. May the Holy Spirit bring healing and comfort to the surviving family members.
how many deaths do we need to see with silage deaths with Silos? This is exactly why we say, don't become the second victim or the third! One person go's down and others try to save the person only dying while trying to help. These are horrific scenes and a lot of Fire Departments know nothing about what just killed these people. it's methane gasses that the silage creates, and it's not like your working in these silos for hours, it can be one load and one breathe of methane gas and you drop over dead. On top of this, the people don't have the technical high level risk rescue training needed to get one person out let alone three people out. I give the family my condolences for the losses of family and friends, every year gasses kill farmers and first responders responding to these type accidents. Imagine if it's three family members, not only do they lose their family but they also have to worry about going on! Thank you farmers for everything you do, and let the family know I am sooooooooooo sorry for you all!....
This is a case of Darwin Awards!! If you have a silo, you should be smart enough to know that you need to ventilate it BEFORE you go inside, if you aren't that smart, this is the result
@@kenmelrac I get why you said this, but I’ll remind you of something, the Amish don’t watch UA-cam, TV, so they’re not informed like us, just keep that in mind. Yes every farmer should know this, but every year we see cases like this. I’d say the same thing about grain bins, yet every year we see grain bin suffocations. I guess this is why most farmers are creating exterior silage areas that are open. Thanks
@@RTVLAgandstuff thanks RT VL just read we’re both right! It’s a combination of both. What makes it soooooooo ready is it’s heavier so instead of moving up and out it’s stays at the base or where ever the silage top sits. I know this because I’ve worked with these scenes before. That’s why people can have no problem climbing down into them, then dropping over dead. It’s wicked stuff and most of the time it takes at least 2. Yes I’ve even heard of 4 deaths all because they wanted to help. Just like this case it takes the first one down, then the 2nd and 3rd that followed. Thanks!
So sad. Grew up on a dairy farm in the 60's. We never gave safety much of a thought. I can remember some close calls with accidents. But it was so difficult to be profitable no one thought about being safety conscious. I truly hope this family can survive this tragedy. I can't imagine losing part of my family this way and ever being able to walk into that barn again. I read somewhere that it was more dangerous to be a farmer than a police officer or a fireman.
Farming is dangerous because the "Farmer" is his own boss & they constantly "push the limits" for their Proffets & livelihood. Firemen run into burning & collapsing buildings all most constantly ( at least twice a month). Policemen can make their whole career (like 45%) with only a broken shoe-lace & a "poped button" from one TOO many donuts. CONSTUCTION workers are usually only 2-3 seconds from a CATISTROFIC Event== the Real HERO'S. So sad for those hard working farmers feeding all of us & 85% "slackers".
I don't really know the family, but I trucked the staves there when they expanded that silo. It's really a sad situation. Like others have commented, let the blower set up and run it when entering after filling silo.
As an old farmer, this used to happen to farmers who had pig farms. Under the floors of the barn was a pit, the floors being slated. One would be over come, the next and the next. Farming is like a construction site, power, heat, electricity, animals, gasoline, d-fuel, propane, weight, weather etc.
@@ghostmanscores1666 Oh hell yes, climbing grain bins, faulty electrical eq. everywhere, driving unsafe trucks, all the moving parts on machinery, wild ass cattle running ya over, constantly jacking stuff up in a haphazard way, power tools, tornados, floods, extreme heat, extreme cold..
This happened to a dairy farmer friend of mine , the first time they agitated there slated floor , with tanks underneath the gasses came up and killed about 18 head .
@@RJ1999x we used to chop enough to feed the cows for a few days after the silo was full and blow rest of the load up the silo just because it would settle enough after it was filled to get two or three more loads in. We'd set the blower up and run it when we went up to level it off and set the unloader up. We left the top door open for a month..
@@danw6014 We use to fill a 20x70, it would take almost a week of refilling before it would quit settling, we'd set the Patz unloader down on top while the blower kept pumping clean air up, and top door open. It was common knowledge
The last death from a farm accident that I remember was in September of 1969 when a neighbor who was just 10 days past his 14th birthday overturned a tractor with a tricycle frontend afterschool while running a stalk cutter cutting cotton stalks Buddy was just too reckless our ground in that part of the country is mostly flat and level the fields are in 40 and 80 acre blocks with drainage ditches along the edges but the soils are very sandy and if I remember he overturned while traveling to fast turning on the end row. The front end buried up in the sand and the tractor slid over the edge of the ditch. Farm accidents are real folks. Silo and grain storage bins are very dangerous Silos because of gasses formed during the fermentation process and grain bins because of bridging of grain and possible collapse of when some one enters and due to the unloading of grain in the the development of a large void causing a Sinkhole while someone entering the grainbin and disturbing the bridged grain. Grainbins are confined spaces that should never be entered without proper safety protocol !!!!
I lived on a dairy farm in Upstate NY and used a AC tractor with just one front tire raking hay. When I hit a woodchuck hole that front end would jump up . Many times escaping death . Then I got into construction and running heavy equipment. I knew a few people that met their death on a farm and on construction sights. I took lots of chances and I'm happy to say I made it to 63 so far.
Support farm rescue originations. There are far to few and every farming community needs one. The temptation to go in after is so great because of the horror of the situation and no place to call with the right rescue equipment. Blame doesn't save lives, education does. Rural fire and rescue departments with silo and grain bin rescue equipment and training does. If this saddens or horrifies you, do something. Donate to, support and promote the farm rescue organizations that provide equipment, training and education. Stricter laws don't help when so many farmers barely make a living, they'll just be put out of business. Nobody should die providing the nourishment that keeps us all alive. A few dollars a person wouldn't miss contributed by allot of people could save lives this year. Commiserate about the problem or be part of the solution, the choice is yours.
Many yrs ago, on a small dairy farm, the auger inside the silo became frozen & jammed. A worker unplugged the auger & climbed up to clear it. Down at the ground another worker didn’t realize why the auger was turned off & powered it up. The young man up top died. It took hours for his body to be removed. Within a few weeks the silo’s & dairy herd were gone. We knew the young man that died, he had married us 11 months earlier. It was his father in laws farm & he helped out. God got an angel that day. Still miss you Peter.
Silo gas....one of the ten thousand reasons farming is one of the most dangerous occupations in the country. Lets think about the people who do an incredibly dangerous job so the rest of us can eat.
I know what happened. Some one forgot to turn the blower on the corn silage chopper on and the silage gas killed them all Happens about three times a year in Lancaster pa
Running the blower is not the be all end all. Yes, you should run it when in the silo, but the key is setting up the unloader IMMEDIATELY after the last load is unloaded. A number of years ago I was on a farm where we had to fill 2 silos. After filling, and refilling the first silo I proceeded to set up the unloader, at which time the boss man said no way we had to get the other silo filled first. This was a particularly bad year for silo gas because of the growing conditions. 7 or 8 hours later he told me to go set up the silo unloader, and I said hell no. He then went to another worker and told him to do it, after I told this worker how stupid this was and not to do it, he went up anyways, with the blower running and came back down. The next day he told me his throat was so sore he couldn't swallow his own saliva. Lucky for him he didn't fry his lungs or end up dead. The blower does not eliminate the gas, it simply circulates it.
So sad confined space very dangerous I've work in the silo and grain business Rip peace farmers We need your service so badly Stay strong American farmers
My condolences to the family, quick question is there a farming OSHA type of thing or no?? Just wondering, just crazy that now 4 ppl are gone, very sad either way
We have a 20x60 concrete silo we filled for 20 years- 1976 to 1996. When it was getting near the top we would climb up every few loads and level it by hand because the distributor made 3 piles. The last 10 or 20 loads it seemed like the silage was settling as fast as it was going in and it would never get full. We were in there many times and we had never heard about this silo gas. Just lucky, I guess.
It only happens on corn silage, for about three days after it is filled. It is t dangerous while filling. When we had to help the unloader to work properly for the first few days, we would always run the silo filler blower for a few minutes, to clear the gas, before entering. A few times I got a major headache in there, from the gas, but not enough to kill me. My uncle would find dead cats in the silo room, killed by the gas coming down the chute.
Not saying it is the solution, but if the blower is left running down below it pumps air up there. Still sad. I'm with you though many close calls in farming.
My experience: As the silage was blown in we continuously leveled by hand, stomped it down so we had no voids and compacted it as much as stomping could do until the next wagon arrived, to prevent spoilage, and added doors as we filled. Never even heard of noxious gas in a silo. This was in the 50s - 70s. When I say "silage was blown in" I mean that it was pulled off the back of the wagon onto a conveyor which fed into a blower that blew the silage up the pipe and then it just blew down into the solo from the loop of pipe at the top of the blower pipe. Usually one but sometimes two of us would be in the silo to level and stomp. When we got to the top, there was very little settlement, only a few feet, if we had stomped enough as we went. These were old fired hollow clay block silos, not the nice Madison silos. Chopped corn silage. Just another day at the office. Farming was/is not the safest work. We also had a trench silo, that had a lot more spoilage. I can honestly say that I do feel lucky that I survived with only a couple of broken teeth and a couple of scars, and knew some as I went along who were not so lucky, reminding me from time to time to redouble my caution. My sincere condolences, my friends. A horrific tragedy. It hurts to think about it.
This hurts my heart. These farmers know their trade but wow seems like room for some safety & rescue or plan of action to keep this type of tragedy from happening again
I used to work for Cargill and they always taught that no one ever walks on corn or grain. Unfortunately the Amish don't regard OSHA regulations. God be with the family and RIP for the 3 lost men.
Such a sad incident my sympathy and condolences goes out to the families that have lost their loved ones. It is not the time to apportion fault but it is now the time to find what actually happened and build a cautionary training course for all the farming fraternity who use these silos. AWARENESS to the dangers must be taught to all operators if we are going to stop future tragedies from happening.
A candle, a parakeet in a cage, anything to indicate the viability of the air on the silo. There's an OSHA rule for confined spaces: You need a hoist and a harness that will allow the guy outside to lift the guy inside out if incapacitated. You don't go inside to join the fallen.
My prayers and angels are with all there family and everyone in the community. Everyone here in NJ are with you during these terrible and trying times. I will light an individual ca n candle for each one the then so they will soar towards heaven.and in your houses cover every mirror you have inthus house and the other houses that they lived in. I Know, it is a supernatural feel to it please but after death they can use this portai.uou don't want them earthbound. My condolences go out to all the families and people that passed away during the event. I will pray forcall of you. God is there with his angels getting them ready. Again, I am so sorry for all of you and I send my deepest condolences and sympathies . Lov, peace, and patience send you for the long road ahead. But will see them again one day wh en they take you over the bridge and into heave Love and Peace be with sll of you! Have a blessed night!!!;l. Love/Peace to the g ecrge deceased and their families. It may not be easyvuy ,in time, it will get functionality Be Safe! And ask God on what you should do next, even if it just taking a nap for a moment. Hod is with you and so am I.ove to you all.🤗😘❤⚘⚘⚘🦅👻
This is what happens over and over. Same kind of thing happens when farmers climb down into a pig poop pit. They are overcome with toxic gas and would be rescuers die trying to save them. Confined Spaces are deadly! Don't enter a manhole or pit without oxygen and gas monitoring! You can die in less than a minute. No joke! Five members of one Amish family died climbing into a pit. Four died were trying to save the one.
It's very tragic but that's why we got rid of those silos a long time ago ain't nothing but a death trap waiting to kill somebody and our family made a decision long time ago to get rid of them and we'll never have silos like that ever again on our farm
I hate silos I have 2 of them but stopped using them a few years ago for this very reason. They are a death trap. 2 years ago a friend of mine fell 60 feet out of his silo and broke his back. I always say the best silo is on the ground.
Sad story My deepest condolences To the families and friendsTo likes like they filled it the day before It is very good idea to leave the blower on to put fresh air at the top of the silo Years ago my dad gone a touch of silo has
That's tragic but it shouldn't have happened. Nobody who doesn't understand the hazard should even be there. Any farmer would know about that hazard. Farming 101. They're teaching the wrong things to boys nowadays. We learned about that and other practical, useful matters instead of about sodomy and wokeness. Such a waste.
Just like drowning. Going to help someone in a situation that you know will kill you. Honorable but not real intelligent. RIP, but it didn't have to happen. Being Amish does not relieve the farmer from being responsible. Dang folks. How many more have to die this way?
When I was a kid the workers use to block the passages with silage on purpose and act like we were trapped in the silo it was scary. They thought it was funny.
Just to be clear, farmers as a class are no smarter, no stupider, no better or no worse than any other and it's neither more or less tragic when a farmer gets killed than it is for any other workplace death.
Sad that this keeps happening. Tower silos are dangerous and unnecessary. Bunckers or pits and silo bags work equally as well at fermenting and storing forage as towers do, but no risk of silo gas, or falling from a height of 60-80 feet. Yesterday’s ideas, but still killing people today
All storage is dangerous I've been gassed by one of my bags one time not fatal but rips your breath out in seconds I was on the outside just patching a hole.
I agree that switching to a different feed storage system isn’t cheap, but you can only loose the life of the main operator on the farm one time. Not to mention the loss of their two sons, seems a far greater price to pay
@@bruceprentice6441 No doubt there is no price equal to life, but many farms are on shoestring budgets and are using old equipment all over. They have no guarantee that the next generation will take over so an investment of 250k or more makes no sense.
@@blauer2551 I can most certainly relate to what you are saying, I have been a dairy farmer myself for the past 42 years. My son and his wife are not interested in the 1.5 million dollar investment we would need to continue with a new set of barns and manure system. I have spent my life milking cows in a barn just like the one in the news clip , ours has 105 tie stalls and a pipe line milking system. I cost me $2,000.00 for a bag and the rental on the bagging machine, to store 360 tons of corn silage. Roughly the same as a 16x60 silo. No special unloading equipment dedicated to unloading the bag, just the same loader tractor that moves the large round bales, cleans the snow off the driveway, and pulls the baler. Tower silos need dedicated unloading equipment, which can only unload one silo. I understand your point about cost of replacing equipment and facilities. I have been living it
Silo Gas? I've never heard of such a thing. They most likely dies from engulfment into the grain the silo held. The grain acts like quicksand & will pull you down into it. Lots of farmers die each & every year die to engulfment. !
Silage gives off gas when you first fill the silo. After you first fill it, it will settle quite a bit but you will not sink into it like in a grain bin or gravity wagon. These unload from the top down.
@@danw6014 I watch a channel called the veggie boys here on youtube. Your comment gave me insight as to why the veggie boys store their Silage for the winter on the ground in large plastic wrap bags. This is such a sad story for those 3 people.
@@concernedamerican6961 silos have their place on some farms. You just have to think. What should have been done here is the machine use to fill the silo is a big blower, should have been running when they went up the silo. It would have been pushing fresh air up a pipe and into the silo. Silo gas is heavier than air so after filling the silo it can settle as much as 10 feet, trapping the gas. We always added more to it. We'd chop a load to feed cow for the day and blow the rest up until it was as full as we could get it before we set the unloader up. We would leave the roof door open for a while too.
@@danw6014 Yeah, IDK. It sounds like the older farmer went into the silo and didn't realize there was still too much gas in the silo and was killed. The two that followed may not have even known about the possibility of gas and just hopped in there to help him. The youngest was only a kid? 🥺😟
So sad!!! Farmers are truly some of the best people in the world and I guarantee their loss is a huge tragedy for their community! God bless the family and the community!
My deepest sympathies to these good hard-working people and their families. My heart goes out to them. These men are the people that help put food on our table.
They help feed the country.
This is a great loss. Godspeed.
I am grieved to hear of this tragedy. Farming is a calling, and these gentlemen served us. May the Holy Spirit bring healing and comfort to the surviving family members.
how many deaths do we need to see with silage deaths with Silos? This is exactly why we say, don't become the second victim or the third! One person go's down and others try to save the person only dying while trying to help. These are horrific scenes and a lot of Fire Departments know nothing about what just killed these people. it's methane gasses that the silage creates, and it's not like your working in these silos for hours, it can be one load and one breathe of methane gas and you drop over dead. On top of this, the people don't have the technical high level risk rescue training needed to get one person out let alone three people out.
I give the family my condolences for the losses of family and friends, every year gasses kill farmers and first responders responding to these type accidents. Imagine if it's three family members, not only do they lose their family but they also have to worry about going on! Thank you farmers for everything you do, and let the family know I am sooooooooooo sorry for you all!....
This is a case of Darwin Awards!! If you have a silo, you should be smart enough to know that you need to ventilate it BEFORE you go inside, if you aren't that smart, this is the result
@@kenmelrac I get why you said this, but I’ll remind you of something, the Amish don’t watch UA-cam, TV, so they’re not informed like us, just keep that in mind. Yes every farmer should know this, but every year we see cases like this. I’d say the same thing about grain bins, yet every year we see grain bin suffocations. I guess this is why most farmers are creating exterior silage areas that are open. Thanks
Likely the orange nitrate or carbon dioxide gas not methane. Unless they were storing shit in it.
@@RTVLAgandstuff thanks RT VL just read we’re both right! It’s a combination of both. What makes it soooooooo ready is it’s heavier so instead of moving up and out it’s stays at the base or where ever the silage top sits. I know this because I’ve worked with these scenes before. That’s why people can have no problem climbing down into them, then dropping over dead. It’s wicked stuff and most of the time it takes at least 2. Yes I’ve even heard of 4 deaths all because they wanted to help. Just like this case it takes the first one down, then the 2nd and 3rd that followed. Thanks!
@@rickk6447 yea I've seen it too in our silage bunkers wicked stuff
So sad. Grew up on a dairy farm in the 60's. We never gave safety much of a thought. I can remember some close calls with accidents. But it was so difficult to be profitable no one thought about being safety conscious. I truly hope this family can survive this tragedy. I can't imagine losing part of my family this way and ever being able to walk into that barn again. I read somewhere that it was more dangerous to be a farmer than a police officer or a fireman.
Farming is dangerous because the "Farmer" is his own boss & they constantly "push the limits" for their Proffets & livelihood. Firemen run into burning & collapsing buildings all most constantly ( at least twice a month). Policemen can make their whole career (like 45%) with only a broken shoe-lace & a "poped button" from one TOO many donuts. CONSTUCTION workers are usually only 2-3 seconds from a CATISTROFIC Event== the Real HERO'S. So sad for those hard working farmers feeding all of us & 85% "slackers".
I don't really know the family, but I trucked the staves there when they expanded that silo. It's really a sad situation. Like others have commented, let the blower set up and run it when entering after filling silo.
Good day from Ontario. The problem is they don't have TV to find out about this . Yes leaving blower run would work Too bad & sad Thanks
@@donvoll2580 they have a USDA Extension Agent, if they'll just listen...
As an old farmer, this used to happen to farmers who had pig farms. Under the floors of the barn was a pit, the floors being slated. One would be over come, the next and the next. Farming is like a construction site, power, heat, electricity, animals, gasoline, d-fuel, propane, weight, weather etc.
Danger zone..
Farming is far more dangerous than police work.
@@ghostmanscores1666 Oh hell yes, climbing grain bins, faulty electrical eq. everywhere, driving unsafe trucks, all the moving parts on machinery, wild ass cattle running ya over, constantly jacking stuff up in a haphazard way, power tools, tornados, floods, extreme heat, extreme cold..
This happened to a dairy farmer friend of mine , the first time they agitated there slated floor , with tanks underneath the gasses came up and killed about 18 head .
Supposed to leave the blower running when you go up there.
Everyone in farming knows that, wonder why they chose to ignore it
@@RJ1999x we used to chop enough to feed the cows for a few days after the silo was full and blow rest of the load up the silo just because it would settle enough after it was filled to get two or three more loads in. We'd set the blower up and run it when we went up to level it off and set the unloader up. We left the top door open for a month..
@@danw6014 We use to fill a 20x70, it would take almost a week of refilling before it would quit settling, we'd set the Patz unloader down on top while the blower kept pumping clean air up, and top door open.
It was common knowledge
@@RJ1999x we did the same thing!
Having lost family members in this situation l would support education and help to support rescue with the tools needed
The last death from a farm accident that I remember was in September of 1969 when a neighbor who was just 10 days past his 14th birthday overturned a tractor with a tricycle frontend afterschool while running a stalk cutter cutting cotton stalks Buddy was just too reckless our ground in that part of the country is mostly flat and level the fields are in 40 and 80 acre blocks with drainage ditches along the edges but the soils are very sandy and if I remember he overturned while traveling to fast turning on the end row. The front end buried up in the sand and the tractor slid over the edge of the ditch.
Farm accidents are real folks. Silo and grain storage bins are very dangerous
Silos because of gasses formed during the fermentation process and grain bins because of bridging of grain and possible collapse of when some one enters and due to the unloading of grain in the the development of a large void causing a
Sinkhole while someone entering the grainbin and disturbing the bridged grain. Grainbins are confined spaces that should never be entered without proper safety protocol !!!!
I lived on a dairy farm in Upstate NY and used a AC tractor with just one front tire raking hay. When I hit a woodchuck hole that front end would jump up . Many times escaping death . Then I got into construction and running heavy equipment. I knew a few people that met their death on a farm and on construction sights. I took lots of chances and I'm happy to say I made it to 63 so far.
OMG Prayers to there Beautiful Family .There home with GOD😇😇😇 RIP
Support farm rescue originations. There are far to few and every farming community needs one. The temptation to go in after is so great because of the horror of the situation and no place to call with the right rescue equipment. Blame doesn't save lives, education does. Rural fire and rescue departments with silo and grain bin rescue equipment and training does. If this saddens or horrifies you, do something. Donate to, support and promote the farm rescue organizations that provide equipment, training and education. Stricter laws don't help when so many farmers barely make a living, they'll just be put out of business. Nobody should die providing the nourishment that keeps us all alive. A few dollars a person wouldn't miss contributed by allot of people could save lives this year. Commiserate about the problem or be part of the solution, the choice is yours.
So well put ! Truly a voice of good sense and a solution yes!
Many yrs ago, on a small dairy farm, the auger inside the silo became frozen & jammed. A worker unplugged the auger & climbed up to clear it. Down at the ground another worker didn’t realize why the auger was turned off & powered it up. The young man up top died. It took hours for his body to be removed. Within a few weeks the silo’s & dairy herd were gone. We knew the young man that died, he had married us 11 months earlier. It was his father in laws farm & he helped out. God got an angel that day. Still miss you Peter.
Confined space training is a must . Prayers for the family.
Im 66 and I remember my father warning me about this could happen in our silo . We have had people here in Washington State die like this . Very sad
How sad! 🥺 Sending prayers to this family and community. 🙏🙏🙏
Silo gasses Especially corn silage got a leave the blower running to air out the top of the silo .
Silo gas....one of the ten thousand reasons farming is one of the most dangerous occupations in the country. Lets think about the people who do an incredibly dangerous job so the rest of us can eat.
Rule number one after filling the silo aways leave the blower running when going up there! Really sad! Almost lost a brother like that!
Oh dear Lord !!!! Prayers and condolences.....😧
I know what happened. Some one forgot to turn the blower on the corn silage chopper on and the silage gas killed them all
Happens about three times a year in Lancaster pa
Agreed. Nasty stuff, that invisible and order less gas
That’s a shame. Unfortunately, it’s a common occurrence where multiple deaths occur because a second or third person attempts a rescue.
Godspeed.
Can someone help me understand what happened and what silo gas is?
Running the blower is not the be all end all. Yes, you should run it when in the silo, but the key is setting up the unloader IMMEDIATELY after the last load is unloaded. A number of years ago I was on a farm where we had to fill 2 silos. After filling, and refilling the first silo I proceeded to set up the unloader, at which time the boss man said no way we had to get the other silo filled first. This was a particularly bad year for silo gas because of the growing conditions. 7 or 8 hours later he told me to go set up the silo unloader, and I said hell no. He then went to another worker and told him to do it, after I told this worker how stupid this was and not to do it, he went up anyways, with the blower running and came back down. The next day he told me his throat was so sore he couldn't swallow his own saliva. Lucky for him he didn't fry his lungs or end up dead. The blower does not eliminate the gas, it simply circulates it.
So horrible and sad. Prayers to this family.
So sad confined space very dangerous I've work in the silo and grain business Rip peace farmers We need your service so badly Stay strong American farmers
I hated going up to level off silage,was always scared but we made sure door was open and kept silage blower on to blow air up there, what a shame.
My condolences to the family, quick question is there a farming OSHA type of thing or no?? Just wondering, just crazy that now 4 ppl are gone, very sad either way
Praying for you all!
We have a 20x60 concrete silo we filled for 20 years- 1976 to 1996. When it was getting near the top we would climb up every few loads and level it by hand because the distributor made 3 piles. The last 10 or 20 loads it seemed like the silage was settling as fast as it was going in and it would never get full. We were in there many times and we had never heard about this silo gas. Just lucky, I guess.
It only happens on corn silage, for about three days after it is filled. It is t dangerous while filling. When we had to help the unloader to work properly for the first few days, we would always run the silo filler blower for a few minutes, to clear the gas, before entering. A few times I got a major headache in there, from the gas, but not enough to kill me. My uncle would find dead cats in the silo room, killed by the gas coming down the chute.
Not saying it is the solution, but if the blower is left running down below it pumps air up there. Still sad. I'm with you though many close calls in farming.
My experience: As the silage was blown in we continuously leveled by hand, stomped it down so we had no voids and compacted it as much as stomping could do until the next wagon arrived, to prevent spoilage, and added doors as we filled. Never even heard of noxious gas in a silo. This was in the 50s - 70s. When I say "silage was blown in" I mean that it was pulled off the back of the wagon onto a conveyor which fed into a blower that blew the silage up the pipe and then it just blew down into the solo from the loop of pipe at the top of the blower pipe. Usually one but sometimes two of us would be in the silo to level and stomp. When we got to the top, there was very little settlement, only a few feet, if we had stomped enough as we went. These were old fired hollow clay block silos, not the nice Madison silos. Chopped corn silage. Just another day at the office. Farming was/is not the safest work. We also had a trench silo, that had a lot more spoilage. I can honestly say that I do feel lucky that I survived with only a couple of broken teeth and a couple of scars, and knew some as I went along who were not so lucky, reminding me from time to time to redouble my caution. My sincere condolences, my friends. A horrific tragedy. It hurts to think about it.
R.I.P.
My deepest condolences to families.
Tragic RIP. Deep condolences to all family and friends.
This hurts my heart. These farmers know their trade but wow seems like room for some safety & rescue or plan of action to keep this type of tragedy from happening again
H2S Alive is a one day course required in the gas industry in Canada. It seems it would have benefitted here?
RIP to the victims and blessings to their families.
So sad. You have to blow out the gas first
Thirty odd years ago or so, we lost 3 members of one family while cleaning a septic tank. Sulphuric Wells Community, Metcalfe County, Ky.
Everytime we go up the silo we always have the tractor hook up and blowing air up there. So sad
I used to work for Cargill and they always taught that no one ever walks on corn or grain. Unfortunately the Amish don't regard OSHA regulations. God be with the family and RIP for the 3 lost men.
They weren't walking on corn or grain, the methane gas from silage got them.
It is sad that emotions overrule common sense.
Such a sad incident my sympathy and condolences goes out to the families that have lost their loved ones. It is not the time to apportion fault but it is now the time to find what actually happened and build a cautionary training course for all the farming fraternity who use these silos. AWARENESS to the dangers must be taught to all operators if we are going to stop future tragedies from happening.
SO VERY SORRY 🙏 🙏🙏
that is so sad,i have been in many silos on local farms
More than one death in most cases is a confined space accident. OSHA laws on this subject are written in blood.
A candle, a parakeet in a cage, anything to indicate the viability of the air on the silo.
There's an OSHA rule for confined spaces: You need a hoist and a harness that will allow the guy outside to lift the guy inside out if incapacitated. You don't go inside to join the fallen.
Pigeons work well for this. About the only thing they're good for.
Terribly sad.
My prayers and angels are with all there family and everyone in the community. Everyone here in NJ are with you during these terrible and trying times. I will light an individual ca n candle for each one the then so they will soar towards heaven.and in your houses cover every mirror you have inthus house and the other houses that they lived in. I Know, it is a supernatural feel to it please but after death they can use this portai.uou don't want them earthbound. My condolences go out to all the families and people that passed away during the event. I will pray forcall of you. God is there with his angels getting them ready. Again, I am so sorry for all of you and I send my deepest condolences and sympathies . Lov, peace, and patience send you for the long road ahead. But will see them again one day wh en they take you over the bridge and into heave Love and Peace be with sll of you! Have a blessed night!!!;l. Love/Peace to the g ecrge deceased and their families. It may not be easyvuy ,in time, it will get functionality Be Safe! And ask God on what you should do next, even if it just taking a nap for a moment. Hod is with you and so am I.ove to you all.🤗😘❤⚘⚘⚘🦅👻
This is what happens over and over. Same kind of thing happens when farmers climb down into a pig poop pit. They are overcome with toxic gas and would be rescuers die trying to save them. Confined Spaces are deadly! Don't enter a manhole or pit without oxygen and gas monitoring!
You can die in less than a minute. No joke!
Five members of one Amish family died climbing into a pit. Four died were trying to save the one.
Silos are dangerous, you have to safely plan going in. Such a tragic loss.
It's very tragic but that's why we got rid of those silos a long time ago ain't nothing but a death trap waiting to kill somebody and our family made a decision long time ago to get rid of them and we'll never have silos like that ever again on our farm
I hate silos I have 2 of them but stopped using them a few years ago for this very reason. They are a death trap. 2 years ago a friend of mine fell 60 feet out of his silo and broke his back. I always say the best silo is on the ground.
Public Education.Owner safety manuals sent to every silo owner in the State. Spend the money to educate and SAVE LIVES.
Sad story My deepest condolences To the families and friendsTo likes like they filled it the day before It is very good idea to leave the blower on to put fresh air at the top of the silo Years ago my dad gone a touch of silo has
Why don't they have a gas detector on every silo that is just a light? red for don't enter, green ok to enter.
So sad God bless that family
Losing three Farmers now this is a big loss rip
wow,,that state patrolman looked to be 17 years old!
That's tragic but it shouldn't have happened. Nobody who doesn't understand the hazard should even be there. Any farmer would know about that hazard. Farming 101. They're teaching the wrong things to boys nowadays. We learned about that and other practical, useful matters instead of about sodomy and wokeness. Such a waste.
Asphyxiation from the gases in the silo.
Just like drowning. Going to help someone in a situation that you know will kill you. Honorable but not real intelligent. RIP, but it didn't have to happen.
Being Amish does not relieve the farmer from being responsible. Dang folks. How many more have to die this way?
So sad, so preventable.
Stupidity plain and simple humans will never learn
The most dangerous workers in the country , not the most dangerous job in the country , sad .
You have no Idea.
Farming is a dangerous occupation
Farm sound like its cursed .
When I was a kid the workers use to block the passages with silage on purpose and act like we were trapped in the silo it was scary. They thought it was funny.
So sad 😢😢
Just to be clear, farmers as a class are no smarter, no stupider, no better or no worse than any other and it's neither more or less tragic when a farmer gets killed than it is for any other workplace death.
What exactly is your point? This is a article about 3 farmers from the same family getting killed
Silo gases form from fresh silage.
Is this h2s? Poison gas
So many ignorant comments here.
Please stop typing and start listening.
"Morneen" is not a word.
"Farmeen" is not a word.
Get elocution lessons.
So sadly it happens
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Sad that this keeps happening. Tower silos are dangerous and unnecessary. Bunckers or pits and silo bags work equally as well at fermenting and storing forage as towers do, but no risk of silo gas, or falling from a height of 60-80 feet. Yesterday’s ideas, but still killing people today
All storage is dangerous I've been gassed by one of my bags one time not fatal but rips your breath out in seconds I was on the outside just patching a hole.
Switching to a new system isn’t cheap, those old silos have been paid for decades ago
I agree that switching to a different feed storage system isn’t cheap, but you can only loose the life of the main operator on the farm one time. Not to mention the loss of their two sons, seems a far greater price to pay
@@bruceprentice6441 No doubt there is no price equal to life, but many farms are on shoestring budgets and are using old equipment all over. They have no guarantee that the next generation will take over so an investment of 250k or more makes no sense.
@@blauer2551 I can most certainly relate to what you are saying, I have been a dairy farmer myself for the past 42 years. My son and his wife are not interested in the 1.5 million dollar investment we would need to continue with a new set of barns and manure system. I have spent my life milking cows in a barn just like the one in the news clip , ours has 105 tie stalls and a pipe line milking system. I cost me $2,000.00 for a bag and the rental on the bagging machine, to store 360 tons of corn silage. Roughly the same as a 16x60 silo. No special unloading equipment dedicated to unloading the bag, just the same loader tractor that moves the large round bales, cleans the snow off the driveway, and pulls the baler. Tower silos need dedicated unloading equipment, which can only unload one silo. I understand your point about cost of replacing equipment and facilities. I have been living it
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God rest their souls
RIP
Terrible!
3 less Trump voters
how can you even say something like that. these people literally feed you.
Silo Gas? I've never heard of such a thing. They most likely dies from engulfment
into the grain the silo held. The grain acts like quicksand & will pull you down into it.
Lots of farmers die each & every year die to engulfment.
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Silage not grain..
Silage gives off gas when you first fill the silo. After you first fill it, it will settle quite a bit but you will not sink into it like in a grain bin or gravity wagon. These unload from the top down.
@@danw6014 I watch a channel called the veggie boys here on youtube. Your comment gave me insight as to why the veggie boys store their Silage for the winter on the ground in large plastic wrap bags. This is such a sad story for those 3 people.
@@concernedamerican6961 silos have their place on some farms. You just have to think. What should have been done here is the machine use to fill the silo is a big blower, should have been running when they went up the silo. It would have been pushing fresh air up a pipe and into the silo. Silo gas is heavier than air so after filling the silo it can settle as much as 10 feet, trapping the gas. We always added more to it. We'd chop a load to feed cow for the day and blow the rest up until it was as full as we could get it before we set the unloader up. We would leave the roof door open for a while too.
@@danw6014 Yeah, IDK. It sounds like the older farmer went into the silo and didn't realize there was still too much gas in the silo and was killed. The two that followed may not have even known about the possibility of gas and just hopped in there to help him. The youngest was only a kid? 🥺😟
So sad 😢😢