A photo from 1894

Yes, two kids got killed by grain; not sure if it was in bins, this year or last year. Sad.

 

I took a job with this small construction company. The guy did not have a ladder long enough to reach up the gable of a porch. As you know, ladders should be at the proper angle so that you don't go flipping back over; hey, another place in real life where you use the trig you studied in school; also moments. Anyway, the owner sets the ladder up over these concrete steps with two sidewalls. I forget how tall but it was like going up two storeys. So I climb up this almost vertical ladder scared to death to paint the gable, trying to hold on to the ladder and the paint can and brush. And it was for a pitiful sum per hour I did as well. I must have been stupid. The guy was a Scrooge of the first caliber; he should have brought the proper ladder. I usually carried my lunch and one day I did not bring a drink with me. He offered to buy me a drink and I said OK. When I got my paycheque the bastard had subtracted the drink from my pay.

 

Some grain bins are gravity feed some smaller have augers in the bottom you don't want to be in there when the auger starts up, my brother came close to getting chewed up in one

 

This was the incident that I was thinking about, very sad. 'Our kids died living life on the farm': 3 sisters dead in Alta. tragedy

 

First thing don't let anyone set up a ladder for you that you are going to climb you set it up yourself and you don't need math

 

I should have said no and walked home. I did say no to the time he wanted me to stick my arm through an industrial fan that was powered and the only safety was he had taped the switch in the off position.

 

That's odd, too many details left out on exactly what happened there, whole lot of questions in my mind right there, was that truck full,, was it being filled, what were they doing there, how did young girls get in that big truck

 

Our fire department still has a ladder like that. Our high school is two stories and we do not have a ladder truck so this is why they still use it.

Ours is what they call a "Bangor Ladder" and assume it was something the Bangor fire department invented. The two brace poles to the sides give it away. When I was on the Volunteer Fire Department I only remember it deployed once, to get on top of a local college's gym roof that was 3 stories tall for some small fire they had. It took 6 men and 12 boys to set up.

 

I'd be the guy taking the picture...yeah, men were men back then. Some of them. Others were just plain crazy.

 

Backwoods Savage I saw this picture within the last few months and the caption with it said the men in the tree were cleaning the Elm bark of all gypsy moth eggs laid.
They look like a mud spot around the size of a .50 cent piece
Went on to say that after they were done they had to come back because more were found

 

Counting rungs it looks like ~50'...

 

Here I am restaining our house this past August. This was the highest part.

 

We must be long lost cousins, I used to use the big hay barn as my own personal ski slope in the summertime! Climb to the peak, take off your shoes and pick a spot w/o any nails and slide; hope and pray you don't hit a nail (it WILL leave a mark) and that you stop before going off the edge as it's about a 10' drop.

 

I remember my brothers and sisters jumping out of the barn loft into a huge pile of hay. I never did as I was little and it looked like I was a thousand feet up.