Fall Protection on Bins

[LEP]

Seen a guy today quote a fall restraint bin kit to install on bins. Cable and engineered anchor so you’ll be safe.

Cost was $175-$200 for the kit to do one bin, and about $399 for the harness and cable run.

That is not cost prohibitive at all for what it can do. Which means it’s all about the inconvenience factor.

I have not seen them that cheap. Probably worth looking into. I have nearly a hundred bins so per bin costs add up. Biggest problem was support runs the length of the sidewall and stops at the hopper which means hooking on and off while standing on a ladder, flat bottoms wouldn't be the same issue.

I kinda doubt my mexican mennonite would use a harness, but I wouldn't mind seeing what is out there.

[Blaithin]

https://www.silverstarag.ca/bin-safe-system

This is the one I seen quoted. His model goes over the leading edge, right to the top.

[LEP]

https://www.silverstarag.ca/bin-safe-system

This is the one I seen quoted. His model goes over the leading edge, right to the top.

Thanks.

[chuckChuck]

Watching truckers walk on the edge of their trailers is another example of a high risk adventure.

Its usually the the young and invincible types who still think their sense of balance is perfect.

Head and spinal injuries from falling off the truck edge are quite frequent.

One little slip and you can spend the rest of your life in a wheel chair unrecognizable and incoherant to your friends and family or dead.

A fall restraint cable system on bins is a good idea. I use a harness especially in winter. I am trying to teach the younger guys to use it whether they think they need it or not.

[WiltonRanch]

Lot of my “bins” have cages around the ladders. Climbing a regular run of the mill bin gives me the willies. I don’t do heights or water particularly well, so any false sense of security would be a great idea.

[Blaithin]

Since you work in an elevator, you can likely sympathize with this story.

My grandpa was very afraid of heights, he didn't even climb a wooden bin, but during the depression, he got himself a job painting grain elevators. I regret that I never got a chance to find out more details, why, and how it went. Desperate times.
Then my dad had a career climbing power poles( including competitions), and communication towers. The fear of heights apparently didn't run in the family..

I don’t like heights. I move like an old granny, hunched over and shuffling along. At work I can manage because of protective measures and the comfort of frequent use, but I don’t go near the edge of anything whenever possible. And even with being tied off, it takes me a car or two to get train legs back on car top.

My brother is a power linesman building towers. Heights don’t seem to bother him at all.

[Herc]

Watching truckers walk on the edge of their trailers is another example of a high risk adventure.

Its usually the the young and invincible types who still think their sense of balance is perfect.

Wait what. Walking on the edge of their trailers? Where’d you read that ffs. Never happens.

[Blaithin]

Wait what. Walking on the edge of their trailers? Where’d you read that ffs. Never happens.

Of course it does. Especially on the models with the grated walk way along the edge.

[Herc]

You sure thats what chuck meant? Don’t think you’d need balance to walk on a designated walkway. Just sayin....

[Blaithin]

I’m getting the impression you’ve never had to take any fall restraint training…

Pretty much if you’re higher than 8’ you either need a guard rail along the edge, a safety zone to keep you away from the edge, or something you’re tied to to stop you from going over the edge or catching you if you do. A walkway on a grain trailer has none of those. Doesn’t matter if it’s designated.

People will jump from bin tip to bin top, you really think they wouldn’t walk down the edge of the trailer and tell themselves they’d just fall into the grain if they slipped?