Grain Bin Dangers

You can die in a grain bin in less than 60 seconds. Watch how quickly something can happen.
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[@Blackw1ng]

Well that turned suprisingly lethal surprisingly fast

[@nathanlaiko2933]

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[@presto709]

This is a better demonstration than all of the more expensive videos I watched.

[@duffinthemuffin5792]

The most educational video I've I've is someone filming pigeons eating grain while it's being emptied and it is terrifying how quickly they sink and almost petrify and then dissappear

[@raylene3418]

I'm here because I was confused on how someone died in grain in the Dressmaker...well...this was the best explanation I could have come across

[@nomanejane5766]

Apparently its a common farm accident accident that often turns deadly. I came here from a quiet place tho

[@richarddecker9515]

That grain was slippery, so it was like quick sand, and as your feet and legs started to sink , and you struggled against the grain. You were pulled down by gravity and you pushed the grain up. What he is saying is that there is a sinkhole in the bin, cause by the top grain is stuck together and teenagers work on the top breaking it up slid down into the void. Ropes from the top tied to the top of the bin, and a harness that has mountain climbers gear. That was sorghum and even the mental challenge brother knew that you don’t go in bins filled with sorghum.

[@virginiaomalley]

Wow, that got me right in the pit of my stomach! So sad for anyone who dies in a grain bin.

[@ethanm1436]

This guy sounds like Forrest Gump

[@pannacottafugo7777]

Ok jennny

[@pieplayz1420]

You mean tom hank?

[@datatwo7405]

It seems you missed the important point of the video.

[@ethanm1436]

@@datatwo7405 no

[@itsabingo8712]

Forrest Gump 2

[@steich3016]

good stuff right here lieutenant dan

[@accountpc4311]

I know everything there is to know about shrimp

[@Greg_call]

Wow, truly interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@AbdullahAbdulRahman_7]

Thank you very much.

[@jonathan1613]

Great video sir don't mind the ignorant comments, this was a very informative to the point video.

[@youtubesucks5080]

which ignotant comments? Everyone seems very interested in this phenomenon

[@windwarattack2300]

That balloon pop was great

[@tylersnotslick]

just watched a movie called Silo on hulu and now i’m here.

[@asterismos5451]

Thanks for this explanation! Ever since my high school physics class on buoyancy where we learned that larger objects will float above smaller ones, I was confused about how it would be possible to drown in a silo. The air pocket makes a lot of sense. If the little figures are able to jostle about at all (which they aren't because of the weight of the grain) they could float to the top, but likely still have their legs stuck a bit thanks to gravity. Like your whole body will float in water, but are still submerged when you are upright in water.

[@krisaaron5771]

Surface tension allows even the heaviest weights to float as long as there is a sufficient square-foot-on-the-water-to-weight ratio... not sure how to phrase that so it's understandable. If anyone knows the actual formula...

[@parkermaraventano3590]

Grain bins will get what in the industry calls "crust" it happens if the grain gets wet and or moldy. The top surface maybe 3"-6" of the grain will be flat and look like the grain bin is completely full. Even though the grain auger has been outputting grain under the crust is a cavity that can be several feet of just empty space. The crust is almost always not strong enough to support a person. And when you break through it, it will completely engulf a person in about 1 second. In fact grain silo accidents have a 60% mortality rate.

[@furstenfeldbruck]

how terrifying

[@andreaforcella237]

someone here after pigeons?

[@bronzeshield6382]

Yes 😂

[@Cye22]

Exactly

[@panzfaust9812]

I saw the russian grain pigeons video too.

[@namaskaren_]

That is SO scary 😱

[@borisblocksberg]

Also dont play alone on a stack of hay bales

[@cognomenalpha]

Who's here after watching the dressmaker? :(

[@davidbarnard1409]

My mumma used to tell me " Don't go near a grain dump "

[@250JefeMane]

When I was your age I was working in silos

[@MujoNovak]

Very good animation.

[@youtubesucks5080]

It's not an animation.

[@MujoNovak]

@@youtubesucks5080 If u think deeper it is.

[@egyptnepthys5177]

Excellent

[@Jaffer1214]

Excellent.

[@vinsoriano493]

Eggcelent

[@Jaffer1214]

@@vinsoriano493 egg salad

[@confused_beekeeper]

poop egg plant

[@Jaffer1214]

@@confused_beekeeper I dig it

[@danzeih]

Anyone else google "can you suffocate in" and a corn silo showed up and you thought you knew what it was but you just wanted to double check and then you laughed because someone rlly played in one of these metal things full of corn and then suffocated...

[@connorwilliams1647]

It’s not just playing. Sometimes adults or even kids fall in these while they’re working on them. And they usually die. It can actually be pretty dangerous

[@amandag1650]

Farm kids work. So do the kids who make your shoes. The only kids who don't work is ones you can see in your city. You urbanites didn't want to see it so you exported the child labour somewhere else.

[@danzeih]

@@amandag1650 they can be happy with the 20p they made when I bought my £180 shoes