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                                  WARNING

Have you inspected your silo door system lately?

Failure to perform routine regular maintenance may cause a fall resulting in serious injury or death to you or your employees.

The highly corrosive environment present in a silo chute will result in the deterioration of wood, metal and concrete.

To ensure your safty, an annual inspection of your door system must include the following:

  • Concrete door frames for deterioration and physical damage (doors must seat properly in door frames for latch systems to work effectively).
  • Cast-in hinge eyes for tightness and corrosion.
  • Swing doorsteps for tightness of rivets and connectors.
  • Removable door steps for cracking or corrosion (All round bar style steps should be secured with 4 saddle clamps for utmost safty. Round bar steps with holes drilled through the bar should never be used without saddle clamps. Without saddle clamps, these steps can be prone to failure. Replace as needed).
  • Wood doors for rot and damage.
  • Latch and latch systems for corrosion and tightness.

Remember, you are ultimately responsible for safty on your farm and you, alone, must bare the liability for accidents.

Contact Sangers Silos for professional and complete silo maintenance.


DANGER

1. BEWARE OF SILAGE GASES, PARTICULARLY DURING     AND AFTER FILLING. THEY CAN BE FATAL! VENT SILO     AND CHUTE THOROUGHLY BEFORE ENTERING.*

2. DO NOT START TO ENSILE CROPS ABOVE 65%     MOISTURE. SEEPAGE MAY RESULT.

3. USE EXTREME CARE IN CLIMBING YOUR SILO.     PREVENT CHILDREN FROM CLIMBING IT.

4. VISUALLY INSPECT ALL DOOR HARDWARE BEFORE     PLACING WEIGHT ON ANY STEP.

5. INSPECT SILO AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR AND     PRACTICE SILO AND EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE     REGULARLY.*

6. REPAIRING AND/OR SERVICING OF THE EQUIPMENT     SHOULD BE PERFORMED BY TRAINED PERSONNEL     ONLY! BE ABSOLUTELY SURE POWER SOURCE HAS     BEEN DECONNECTED – AND CONNOT BE TURNED
    ON – WHEN PERFORMING ROUTINE MAINTENANCE     OR INSPECTING THIS EQUIPMENT.*

7. ENSURE THAT ALL LATCHES ARE SECURELY IN     PLACE. BEWARE OF SLIPPERY CONDITIONS CAUSED     BY FROST. MOISTURE, MUD, MANURE, FEED. OR     OTHER FOREIGN MATERIAL.

8. BE SURE ONE HAND IS HOLDING A RUNG BEFORE
    THE OTHER HAND IS RELEASED. DO NOT CLIMB     WITH TOOLS OR OTHER OBJECTS IN YOUR HANDS.

9. NEVER USE CHUTE STEPS TO CLIMB THE SILO     WHEN EMPTY.

10. PREVENT CHILDREN FROM CLIMBING THE SILO.

11. HEIGHTS ARE DANGEROUS!
      USE EXTREME CAUTION!

        *DETAILS IN ISA’S “SILO OPERATOR’S MANUAL”
        AVAILABLE FROM YOUR SILO MANUFACTURER.
International Silo Association, Inc.

 

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