Grain bin jacks can sometimes be rented from a local equipment rental store. Look for the kind of store that rents everything ...
ERDAHL, Minn. — Dale and Cindy Ekdahl got into the grain bin safety business more than a decade ago. It started, Dale recalls, after a 13-year-old boy died not far from their farm in western Minnesota ...
As rural infrastructure gives way to suburban sprawl, one casualty is the grain bin. Traditionally used by farmers to store dry corn and soybeans, metal grain bins have dotted the Kansas landscape for ...
If a farmer falls into a bin with flowing shelled corn, wheat, oats, sunflower seeds or barley, they might sink to their knees and be unable to free themselves in the time it took to read this ...
The Howard Volunteer Fire Department was recently named the winner of the Nationwide grain bin rescue tube contest, boosting safety for agriculture across Steuben County. Steuben County Farm Bureau ...
Local firefighters got hands-on training in an agricultural rescue scenario Saturday morning. About 10 members of North Platte Fire & Rescue and a handful of the North Platte Volunteer Fire Department ...
A man was rescued after becoming trapped in a 20-foot grain bin at a farm in the Town of Paris, Kenosha County. The Town of Paris Fire and Rescue received the emergency call around 8 a.m. and led the ...
VOLGA, S.D. — Two people were recently killed after being trapped in a farm silo near Volga, adding to a number of grain and forage handling tragedies on farms across the region. According to a ...
CLINTON COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) – A 77-year-old man is recovering after being trapped in a grain bin for five hours Monday, and first responders had to climb inside to get him out. The man, a worker at a ...
A 65-year-old man was rescued from a grain bin in the Town of Paris, following a two-hour rescue Oct. 3 involving around 60 ...
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — A short country drive south of North Platte takes one to a veritable treasure trove. On high ground surrounded by picturesque canyons are 20 small, round wooden buildings with tin ...