Need new bin....

big tee

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• Jan 22, 2018

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This happened out in Ohio-Sun morning. Before and after photos. 385,000 bu. Nobody hurt according to security cameras---Tee

 

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Richard G.

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• Jan 22, 2018

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WOW. Unbelievable.
Richard in NW SC

 

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ArleninOr

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• Jan 22, 2018

• #1

Think they will need a very large shovel.

 

jm.

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Dover TN

• Jan 22, 2018

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About a million bucks laying there.. Sure it won,t all be lost but pretty good lick. News says no one was hurt so that is the good thing.

 

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jeffcat

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• Jan 22, 2018

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O snap!! They better haul you know what before any rain on it. Why arn't those bins over built a little bit? How many Hoovers do you think they will need?

 

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Frank 41

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• Jan 22, 2018

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A big high hoe or mass mover can get it pretty fast except for the bin pieces. I wonder what brand of bin it was. Chief was having problems at one time. Cargil had two side by side split a few years back at Gibson City, IL that were toward the end of row away from the dump. They used a high hoe.

 

47fivewindow

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Davidsonville Md.

• Jan 22, 2018

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That's gonna keep a mess of lawyers busy for a while.

 

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4520BW

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• Jan 22, 2018

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Must of been a Brock bin!

 

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Duane WI

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• Jan 22, 2018

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I listened to a lecture a couple years ago about bin failures. It is something I had never really thought much about. A lot of things can go wrong. One failure mode that I found fascinating is called Thermal Ratcheting. During a warm sunny day the metal expands, the bin grows in diameter just a little bit and the grain settles down a little bit. The metal cools at night and contracts. It is hard to get grain to flow back up so the metal is stretched. The riveted joints are stressed. This happens day after day until the bin sidewall splits.

 

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K Effective

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• Jan 22, 2018

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Hopefully no one is parked along the road under there. I think the block building looks lost as well, at least one wall of it. Sure, you can scoop it up quickly, but where do you put it then? What a nightmare, a true "Aw, Sh!t" morning.

 

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Bob

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• Jan 22, 2018

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(quoted from post at 21:15:30 01/22/18) How many Hoovers do you think they will need?

Click to expand...

LOTS of faster ways to do it than with Hoovers!

Here's ONE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg5iEMMgIVk"

 

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Brown Swiss

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• Jan 22, 2018

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Put in too much of the old Kussmaul Crib Buster corn! LOL That was back in the days of Al and Rudd.

 

Tony in SD

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• Jan 23, 2018

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More often than not, the bin was assembled incorrectly. Stiffener bars put in the wrong place, panels in the wrong place, etc. Sometimes uneven unloading stress? will cause a failure too. It would be interesting it see security video of the massive explosion.

 

BarnyardEngineering

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Location

Rochester, NY

• Jan 23, 2018

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Hmm, no rail access... Rail cars would be the way to go to get the most capacity with the fewest vehicles for cleanup, but it looks like they're going to have to truck it all away.

 

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Leroy

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• Jan 23, 2018

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That is about 60 mile south of me. Once in a great while I go thru that town. First heard about it on WHIO channel 7 news out of Dayton that is close by. I don't know if beans or corn. Beand weather will hurt, corn not so much. Elevators around here store corn out in big piles uncovered untill harvest is done then they will put a big tarp over and it may have had several big rains on or even a foot of snow befor the tarp.

 

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Irvin Plitzuweit

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• Jan 23, 2018

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No set back rules. Way too close to highway.

 

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LAA

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• Jan 23, 2018

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Cost of trucking just went up.

 

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carvel minne farmer

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• Jan 23, 2018

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WOW it's lucky that no vehicale was going buy when that bin let go! that's going to be a mess to clean up.

 

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ss55

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• Jan 23, 2018

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If there were any setback ordinances, the town council probably issued the co-op a variance. After all what could possibly happen before the councilmen leave office?

It looks like the scale house is partially buried. Hopefully the co-op is not a single site operation.