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Show Many Silo Accidents Are Found Avoidable Far too many serious accidents occur in connection with silo filling, most of which can be prevented by exercising even a small amount of care. Probably the most common is that of falls from the silo in putting put-ting up or' taking down the filler pipes or in putting in the doors. Even a 10-foot fall may be very serious if one strikes on his head, falls with a leg or arm underneath, or falls on the cutter or other machine. ma-chine. Also many lose a hand or an arm by trying to crowd the corn into a cutter which is partly choked. Keep the hands at least a foot away from the feed rolls; and if closer crowding crowd-ing must be done, use a forked stick. Be careful that the cutting knives are properly adjusted and the adjusting ad-justing bolts and hocking nuts properly prop-erly secured. Any clicking or tapping tap-ping should at once be investigated by stopping the cutter and testing the knife adjustments and lock nuts, and these should be gone over each half day before the cutter is started up. Do not run the cutter faster than called for in the manufacturers directions. di-rections. Experimental work shows that excessive speed not only is dangerous but that it wastes an enormous amount of power and that usually just as good results will be obtained at the lower speeds. |