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Seed House Safety And Maintenance Procedures Overhead seed houses are valuable for short-term seed storage, wet seed storage and gins with limited yard space.

With recent design improvements, overhead seed houses can also provide a highly efficient method for loading trucks from flat-storage houses.

When fully loaded, a double-hopper seed house can weigh 200,000 pounds or more. This load hovers above trucks and personnel, so structural integrity is critical. Volatile weather can put older seed houses at risk, especially those that have not been properly maintained. Through the years, moisture and chemicals from seed along with humidity cause the inevitable – rust and corrosion. Since the damage primarily occurs inside the seed house, it’s out of sight and mind. If a structural failure occurs, personnel are put at risk of injury.

All cotton gins should review their overhead seed house safety and maintenance procedures before the start of the 2017 cotton ginning season.

Safety Tips ■ Never go beneath a seed hopper when it contains seed.

■ Be sure all ladders and catwalks are properly guarded.

■ Do not enter the seed trailer or climb on the side walls of the trailer.

■ Post decals stating “DANGER – DO NOT ENTER AREA BELOW HOPPER DOORS WHEN SEED IS IN STORAGE HOUSE” are available free from your local ginning association.

■ Contact your ginning association or loss control representative to get a copy of the “Cottonseed System Safety Policy” for employees, visitors and outside contractors such as seed haulers.

■ Use all other commonly known safety practices every day.

Maintenance Actions ■ All proper safety precautions should be taken by all personnel who perform maintenance and repairs.

■ Clean out all seed.

■ Clean hopper panels to remove seed oil. Steam cleaning consistently works well.

■ Use sanding and steel brushing to make the inside surfaces of the hopper panels smooth again.

■ Carefully examine the entire seed house for stress

LEC-200 Electronic Seed Scale

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Oil Free Air Cylinders & Valves Double Cylinders – Upper & Lower 100+ Bale per Hour Capacity

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fractures and loose hardware, especially if vibrators have been used.

■■ Remove rust and corrosion.

Trailer-Viewing Catwalk The best industry practices include the use of a trailer-viewing catwalk mounted on the outside of the vertical columns, approximately 9.5 feet above the driveway. This provides the operator a good vantage point to see into the tops of the trailers and to determine when to open and close the hopper doors.

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Jim Granberry, president of Cliff Granberry Corp., contributed this article. Email him at jim@cliffgranberrycorp.com or call (972) 381-8899. For more information, visit www.cliffgranbe rrycorp.com.

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OSHA Suspends Injury And Illness Reporting Rule The Injury and Illness Reporting Rule was developed a few years ago, and some of its provisions kicked in last summer.

We (Texas Cotton Ginners' Association) have discussed these in district meetings. The provisions are things that gins would normally do, such as informing employees about how to report injuries and not discriminating against employees who do report injuries.

The last and most concerning part of the rule was scheduled to begin on July 1 this year. On this date, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was scheduled to have a database set up on its website. Gins would be required to enter

the data from their OSHA 300A into the agency's portal. In the rule, OSHA was scheduled to publish this data for the public to review. In May, OSHA announced it was not accepting electronic submission of injury and illness logs at that time. OSHA is proposing to extend the July 1 date. There is no word as to how long the rule will be delayed, but it is likely the delay will be substantial. And the rule possibly will be modified before it is implemented.

For now, there is no portal to enter the data. Since the rule is delayed indefinitely, there is nothing gins need to do at this time. We will be monitoring the situation and will let you know when we have more information about this rule.

The Texas Cotton Ginners' Association provided this article.

Cotton’s Calendar 2017 n July 10-12: Southern Southeastern Mid-Year Board Meeting, Marriott Grand Dunes, Myrtle Beach, S.C. n July 10-12: Southern Cotton Ginners Association Summer Meeting, DoubleTree by Hilton Lafayette, Lafayette, La. n July 12: Plains Cotton Growers Inc. Board Meeting, Bayer Museum of Agriculture, Lubbock, Texas n July 20: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors Meeting, Phoenix, Ariz. n Aug. 8-10: Cotton Board/Cotton Incorporated Joint Meeting, Durham, N.C. n Aug. 16: Plains Cotton Cooperative Association Board Meeting and Delegate Body Meeting, Lubbock, Texas

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FOR SALE: 2 – 158 GIN STANDS WITH CONTROLS MANUFACTURER OF HI-CAPACITY LINT CLEANING SYSTEMS IN 86” to 110” WIDTHS NEW 60” & 72” OVERSHOT BATTERY CONDENSERS

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96” TO 144” INCLINE CLEANERS, STICK MACHINES & AIRLINE SEPARATORS HIGH CAPACITY VACUUMS USED & FACTORY REBUILT GIN MACHINERY BALE HANDLING SYSTEMS COMPLETE LINE OF REPAIR PARTS FOR MURRAY, MITCHELL, H.E., CONSOLIDATED, CONTINENTAL, MOSS, LUMMUS, HORN & CMI 806-745-8156 1-800-776-8182 FAX 806-745-0564 E-MAIL: NORTHERNLUCUS@YAHOO.COM WWW.NORTHERNLUCUS.COM

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■ Aug. 17-18: 2017 American Cotton Producers/Cotton Foundation Joint Summer Meeting, Westin Buckhead Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Ga. ■ Aug. 23-25: National Cotton Council Mid-Year Board Meeting, Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tenn.

■ Sept. 20: PCCA Annual Meeting, Lubbock, Texas ■ Sept. 20: PCCA Board Meeting, Lubbock, Texas ■ Sept. 20: Staplcotn/Stapldiscount Annual Meeting, Greenwood, Miss.

■ Sept. 25: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors/Auditors Meeting, Phoenix, Ariz.

■ Sept. 26: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors Meeting/90th Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Ariz.

■ Oct. 11: PCG Inc. Board Meeting, Bayer Museum of Agriculture, Lubbock, Texas ■ Oct. 18: PCCA Board Meeting and Delegate Body Meeting, Lubbock, Texas ■ Nov. 15: PCCA Board Meeting, Lubbock, Texas

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■ Dec. 5-7: Cotton Board/Cotton Incorporated Joint Meeting, St. Petersburg, Fla. ■ Dec. 20: PCCA Board Meeting and Delegate Body Meeting, Lubbock, Texas

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■ Jan. 3-5: Beltwide Cotton Conferences, Marriott Rivercenter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

1333 E. 44th. ST. Lubbock, TX 79404 806-745-5552 Fax: 806-745-5582 rammfgco@rammfg.net www.rammfg.net

■ Feb. 9-11: NCC Annual Meeting, Omni Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas ■ April 5-6: TCGA Annual Meeting and Trade Show, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Lubbock, Texas

Lummus Corporation has available the following quality, high-capacity used gin machinery.

All machinery is offered “as is, where is” (unless noted otherwise) and is subject to prior sale.

“As is” machinery can be repaired/reconditioned for an additional charge.

1 – Consolidated 96” R-5000 Stick Machine* 2 – Consolidated 120” R-5000 Stick Machines* 1 – Lummus 60” overshot Standard Battery Condenser* 1 – Consolidated 72” undershot Standard Battery Condenser* 1 – Consolidated 72” undershot MC Battery Condenser* 1 – Belt-Wide 75-HP Flooded-Suction Hydraulic Booster Pumping Unit

1 – Lummus Bale Handling System for up-packing press 1 – Lot, miscellaneous Burner and Moisture Unit components (contact us for details) * - does not include any Steel Supports or Platforms

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1 – Lubbock Electric Hydraulic Pumping Unit for Gin Dor-Les® or E.E. Dor-Les® Press (single reservoir with multiple motor/pump groups)

1 - Complete 2/141 Gin Plant consisting of: Unloading System with 15” diameter single-lane Powered Telescope, Rock Trap with Trash Vacuum, 72” Unloading Separator/Feed Control with Vacuum Wheel and Flight-Saver, and No. 50 Unloading Fan; First-Stage Drying/Precleaning System with Continental 3 MBTU Burner and No. 40 Push Fan, 54” Tower Dryer, 96” Continental Inclined Cleaner with Vacuum Wheel over 96” Horn 3-Saw Stick Machine (with double 96” x 24” Vacuum Wheels), Second-Stage Drying/Precleaning System with Continental 3 MBTU Burner and No. 40 Push Fan, 54” Tower Dryer, 96” Continental Inclined Cleaner with Vacuum Wheel over 96” Continental 2-Saw Stick Machine; Distribution/Overflow System with Continental 2-Stand Conveyor Distributor and 72” Automatic Overflow Hopper with Breaker Cylinder; Feeding/Ginning System with two (2) Continental 141-Saw Gins (converted) and 96” Comet Supreme Feeders; Lint Cleaning System with four (4) 66” wide Continental 16-D Lint Cleaners (two tandem arrangements); Condensing/Pressing System with 50” Moss Battery Condenser, 20” x 54” Continental Bespress, and Bale Handling System with Bale Push Cart (manual) and Bagger (powered); five (5) Smith 35/40 Centrifugal Fans (only one season of operation)