Public Safety

Public safety is our primary control as we do anything.    As there is a widespread desire to get up to the Mary Helms' barn haymow during tours we respond with a staircase!

Above is the staircase concept drawing with two light-admitting diamond windows added.  The diamond windows will closely match the diamond windows in your house, one of which will be in view from the staircase landing windows!  A decorators dream come true.
​We want to take bids for adding these windows,
​I need to get a better way of explaining the grain funnel safety fence, maybe on the morrow.

Below is a shot of the east wall of the staircase.  That wall doubles as a grain bin containment wall.  When the public is on the landing the wall is only 34 inches high.  Risk assessment dictates to us that no one can use the stairs now saving the people installing the risk mitigating measures.  Illustrated below!!  (Click on the picture please)

This is our proposal for managing the risk of visitors falling into the grain grinder feeder chute.  You see, the open to the outside door, above, is where an auger moves feed from a wagon outside the barn into the funnel and down to the basement of the barn..  Cattle were waiting for the feed below.  People will fall into that funnel given the opportunity!  To bring that risk to a manageable level, we are putting out a bid opportunity for contractors to come to the rescue.
​The pencil drawing is our concept of a possible risk reducer where the transparency of the fence is see through spindles on 4 inch centers or less.  Height  could be more than waist high of the tallest expected visitor..