"Safety Ladder" For Grain Bins

"Safety Ladder" For Grain Bins BUILDINGS Accessories 25-6-26 "I'm hopeful that one day this idea will catch on with farmers and save lives," says John Mason of Ormstown, Quebec, about his chain-type safety ladder for grain bins. The ladder, which can be easily moved from bin to bin, has rungs made from steel rebar. A pair of steel hooks at one end hang from the bin's top porthole. The ladder is sized to hang straight down to within about 18 in. of the floor, which is enough clearance for it to clear the sweep auger. Mason also made three different ladders for his gravity wagon. All of the ladders are made from rerod. One hangs outside the wagon, one hangs inside at the front, and one hangs over the unloading door so the operator has something to stand on as he shovels material out. Both the top and bottom end of each ladder is bent at a 90 degree angle and welded to a length of flat metal plate that bolts onto the side of the wagon. "The ladders really come in handy if we have trouble with the crop inside," says Mason. "We use the wagon to haul both high moisture shelled corn and cob corn. Sometimes it's hard to get the material out of the wagon so we have to go inside and shovel or use our feet to push the crop out." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, John Mason, 675 Segnorial Side Road, Ormstown, Quebec, Canada J0S 1K0 (ph 450 829-2961).

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