A3B4JWCMHT Farming, Saturday, Saptambar 17, 1994
Chester County DHIA has scheduled their annual banquet for Thursday, November 17,1994
at 7:00 p.m. at the East Brandywine Fite Hall, GuthiiesviUe, PA. Tils year, in -mm™. t 0 the
busmen meeting and election of directors, entertainment is being planned. Awards will be
expanded to recognize not only high protein herds, but also low average somatic cell count
herds for the year and the highest scores on the PA DHIA Herd Management summaries.
.Tickets will be available in October throui
Why is it that one farming operation seem to be accident prone while a neighboring farm runs
smoothly with very few accident problems? I am convinced that it is related to three practices -
First, let’s talk about Habit Safety has to become an automatic
process that a farmer practices everyday, just like eating, sleeping and milking cows. Before
working with machinery, safety precautions, such as stopping the machine before servicing.
avoiding moving parts, and keeping shields in place, should be as routine as tying your shoes.
Don t enter a recently filled silo until it has been properly ventilated and never enter a manure
pit without proper breathing equipment. Always wear the proper goggles or face shield when
grinding and/or welding. As a standard practice, wear protective clothing, gloves and a face
shield when working with pesticides and other chemicals. These are only a few of the safety
standards that farmers need to adopt on a regular basis. Most farmers know proper safely
measures, but the ones that have good safety records, use these pracuces everyday rather than
only when the spirit moves them.
That brings me to the second point - Time. Dairy farmers, in particular, never seem to have
enough hours in the day to complete all their priorities. My wife and my sons always said I
often planned more for a day than could physically be accomplished; therefore, I tended to rush
around myself and also expected everyone else to keep up with me. We had a good safety
record on our farm, but one example of being in too much of a hurry almost cost me a serious
injury. About 30 years ago, we had extra help to rill silo on a particular day and we planned to
get a lot of com silage in that day. My first priority was to put the doors in the 12' x 40' ole
silo. The doors in this old silo were not hinged, but hung by a hook from a pipe every two feet
going up the chute The only thing that held them in solidly was the silage after filling; then
you could safetiy stand on step fastened to each door. I had always told everyone that when
they were putting in the doors prior to filling, do not use the step on the door to stand on but
position your foot on the solid pipe that ringed the silo. This particular day, I was in a hurry
and I did not heed my own advice About half way up the silo, I stepped on one of the door
steps, the door kicked into the silo, I lost my hand hold and 1 fell 20 feet down the silo chute
with my pelvis hitting a concrete floor I was extremely lucky in that I did not break my pelvis.
I spent only 5 days in the hospital and did not milk cows for three weeks. This stupid mistake
on my part happened because I was in too much of a hurry and it could have cost me my life or
caused a lifetime handicapped injury The moral of the story is; take tune to do a job safetiy •
the time used is well spent
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purchued because money U right and an accident hatn’t happened yet Safety equipment
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Chester County DHIA • August 1994
Cows producing over 2QQ lbs. protein are:
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Regina
Robert St Sharon Nolan
Pollyan
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Dixie
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