Just want to share my story so you stay safe . When I was 6 my brother who was 9 and I always climbed to the top of a small 6000 bushel grain bin . One day he said we should jump in at the same time and see who hits the grain first . The bin was half full and grain was being taken out by the auger . We both got in the door at the top of the bin but I chickened out . We had no way of knowing a crust had formed and there was a pocket , he jumped and the next thing I knew is he was completely covered in grain . The last thing I saw was his hand sticking out above the grain before I took off down the ladder to get help . It was too late by the time help arrived , he suffocated. I still feel some guilt even though I was told there was nothing I could of done for him . It was no ones fault , just a farm accident . This happened in Delta , Oh in October of 1965 on my dad's farm . Still feeling the pain .

I get a little jealous when I see you guys having so much fun LOL - Thanks for the video Cheers

i wanted you to be safe....but also wanted to see you drop down in there

Did this at a seed corn company one year...ended up getting a nice sinus infection despite wearing a dust mask. Glad for the auger, tho, that works a treat.

Ah the good ol days. I did that every morning and afternoon. One time the auger grabbed the rope then climbed up and pinned my hand in the auger. Luckily I had strong enough gloves to keep my hands safe

this video is satisfying. swept alot of grain in my day. thats a clever way to do it

Great video I feel lucky now because we now have power sweeps in all the bins so no more manhandling the sweep anymore.

The pit in the center is called the center sump. Theres a metal gate connected to a rod underneath the floor and you can open and close it from the outside. Very dangerous if your foot goes in when the auger is on. He installed a sweep which yes pivots from the center and keeps you from shoveling 95% of the grain. It rides just above the floor so it doesnt damage it. Any grain bin with whats called a full floor is flat. The metal floor has tiny holes which an outside fan attatched to the bin cools, dries and preserves the grain. Some bins are angles toward the center and they require no sweep or full floor but gravity to empty the bin

Good job thanks for sharing.

Just got done making grass bales for my cows in farming sim 17 decided to take a break and i see this video. This looks fun and its not worst than my job sorting frozen pallets then stocking the products in the aisles and clean inside the freezer at minus 35 degrees for 6 hours coming out every hour to warm up for 15 mins and let the freezer get back to temp lol. Wish there was a switch to turn off the freezers so i can mop inside......

Thanks for showing us where our food comes from not just wrapped up all pretty for us. FARMING AIN'T EASY.

I wish I had knickle for every bushel of grain I shoveled before they even had sweeps and center sumps we had to shovel it twice from back of bin to opening when I was a kid.

It's even more fun in the middle of the summer!

I don't know whether you know it or not but wow that little sweep auger is working taking its little bit of grain to the whole at a time you can also be shoveling drain into the hole at the same time and that will make things go a lot faster

I'm 12 and I do this quite a bit. I usually jump in and land on my rear and try not to jump straight in and go too deep. It is very fun. Toledo jeeper I'm sorry for your lost

Don't miss that any... our bins were a bit bigger with extension on the sweep auger.... bean dust would about kill my eyesight.... wheat dust was no problem for me... I didn't might strawbales either.... just couldn't handle beandust

stay safe, i work in grain bins all over the u.s. installing temperature cables

I work at a plastic manufacturer and often have to do this with regrinded material in the silos.. it's a back killer

Wow! that is a lot of work.Have you tried using a sawdust vacuum used in woodshops for sawdust,woodchips? It has a LOT of suction and is real fast. Great video and commentary. Keep up the great work.

All the sweeps I've been around had a small drive wheel attached at the end so you wouldn't get caught up in the auger ! Will bins need a auger stop so the auger can't chase you down !

Why is this in my recommended tab? And why did i just watch all of it at 3am?

I've got a story as well.. There was a local farmer doing just what you were, pushing the sweep auger with his foot. Unfortunately he was alone and got his pant leg wrapped up, tried to kick it loose with the other foot and it got caught as well. By the time someone found him it had eaten his legs all the way up to his back. He lived but spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair with not too much below the waist.

In California, for rice, we turn the fan on, so it’s not as dusty. But it’s still pretty bad, especially when the moisture is under 10 😂😂😂

The kid with the broom drove me crazy

One of the best jobs you can have.

Never knew what was on the floor of a grain bin, that is because we do not have them in south Florida. The corn grown here is for human consumption and livestock grazes year round. It is far cheaper to bring corn here than try and grow it in out hot humid weather.

I've seen another channel showing and talking about their auger and now I know why they did not actually video the job. that is hard work! shoveling is a workout for sure. good job letting the younger boy help. oh and great choice not to jump in from the top.

That smooth floor makes it a lot easier.

I don't blame you for not wanting to jump all the way down. Farm safety is number 1 thing. I'm not sure about the size of that bin but like you said it was a long ways down...

I feel cheated! I so wanted to see that bin completely empty, but you stopped the video short of that. Now we will never know how it ends. Did he get the bin empty?? Did something unforeseen stop him from finishing the job?? My OCD is killing me right now. I might never have another sleep filled night. Gee thanks, lol.

Just me, or is it satisfying to anyone else?

Archimedes screws are a good invention.

Some farmers will sweep off the grain stuck to the walls. At this point its dry and theres no mold in it. Theres no need to disinfect the bin theres no danger from that grain. Most of the time itll fall off the wall on its own before he fills the bin next fall.

Oddly satisfying.

Hello Sir, can you help me out, by telling me how many rpm's is the screw conveyor running please?

Littl dude in green snow suite was killin it.

Pretty cool

I heard its like quicksand theres no fighting it. Jumping in a half bin/full can be deadly.

So you move the sweep bin to bin ?

Well now I wish my brother and I knew about the auger method when we were kids so we didn’t have to shovel two and a half feet of corn so many times

No body will understand how much work it is to shovel out a bin at the stage

City Folk Don't Know What REAL Work Is !

Now imagine how hard it used to be, without power tools

Are sweep moves on its own

Another simple safety procedure, that I experienced as a kid cleaning out an overhead oats bin. Wrapping your pants cuffs with duct tape will prevent furry rodents from running up to where your legs are hooked to your body. They can climb quickly.

Our farms bins have the sweep built right into the bins no need to throw the sweep in when the bins get low

5:06 youre welcome

popcorn yummm

I remember when I used to play in those we play tag

How you no get stuck

Never take any chances. The one you do take might be your last

Do they never have harnesses with ropes?

one tip. get a life blower! that's how we clean out our flat storages

7:57 I can hear you. 👍

Mine has later inside.

WE CAN HEAR YOU!!! CAN YOU HEAR US!!!!

Is that peanuts? or what sort of grain is that? it really look like peanuts

Scary up there?

Idk why I'm watching this

He wastes a lot of energy shoveing it back over the ogger. You just shove sweep it to the center not scoop and throw.

what grains are these?

Só eu que de certa forma um esforço gasto a toa em ficar com a pá colocando na calha?? Poderia já ir empurrando direto para o buraco mesmo com a pá ou com a vassoura.

yay. Tomorrow’s job then loading into a bag.

hey if you made the back of your sweep taller you would have less corn going over the backside and less work for you. let the motor do the work

Please be careful

Not having seen one of these ... I think you were calling the center a "stump." right? Is that a pit, that feeds the evacuation auger? When the corn levels are high, the angle of repose of corn is able to feed to corn to pit/evacuation auger, but now it is lower, and no longer flows to the pit, ... right? The device you installed (not sure what you called it, ... sweep?) is placed on a post, so that it can rotate around the bin, with end of the auger nearly reaching the edge. All it is doing is moving the corn from the surface to the pit, to the evacuation auger, so it will be taken out of the bin. The secondary auger is saving you the task of shoveling all the corn on the floor to the pit, right? It looks like the sweep auger is resting on a pan to give it stability, other than that, it is merely floating on the loose corn, ...? The floors of these bins are always flat, right? Never a slope down toward the center?

Why are you emptying it

Very unsafe duty my friend, i work as a EHS tech for an agricultural company, we never let workers go in the bins with turned on equipments, so risky, that´s a confined space, if there's some phosphine also, you could die!

It can be dangerous if your not carefull.

i have no idea how i ended up on this video

Lot of trash?

Leave the sweep in and cover the motor with a plastic bag. So much easier

Sissy

looks like a pain in the butt

eh, hm, Getreide schippen ist schon sehenswert, oder doch lieber Lippen küssen als Getreide schippen müssen

I would not put a child in when there unprotected auger working .There a high risk . It a one man job in there.. Think safety...Like the video anyways ...Hope you made money out the crop..

Долго чистят

OH HELL NO! You guys spend too much time climbing around on those bins as it is. Jumping into one? Nope. Not happening.

Forgive this city dweller, but if the point is to get that grain down that hole in the center, why not just shovel and sweep it in there instead of using this noisy machine?

So vui redn und so umständlich arbeiten kon blos a Ami!!

лопатой было бы быстрее закидать. чем этой хренью.

You need to learn to run a camera if you want to succeed!

Amis beim Arbeiten zuschauen, das tut richtig weh!

I find that auger really satisfying to watch. Lol