escargot
Disciple of Marduk
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Here's a post of mine about touring silos -Me too.
I had a vision of walking around a solitary standard UK grain silo on a farm somewhere.
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Someone my mother knew lost her husband in a horrific farm accident. He wasn't a farmer, he was a civil servant whose job included inspecting silage containers.
Story goes that it was last thing on a Friday, he was after his dart and he rushed things.
You're supposed to climb up the ladder and loosen the lid, taking care to allow gases to disperse before leaning over the open top to look inside.
Instead he whipped the lid off and stuck his face inside.
The escaping gases exploded, taking his head with them. His horrified assistant saw it fly skyward and then descend to land with a thud in the field.
It was all over the local papers and taught me that safety procedures are there for a reason!