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Railroad grain terminal in Hope, Minnesota. A grain elevator or grain terminal is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor, which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits it in a silo or other storage facility.
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A grain elevator in Nebraska, June 2015. Silos are hazardous, and people are killed or injured every year in the process of filling and maintaining them. [14] The machinery used is dangerous, and workers can fall from a tower silo's ladder or work platform. Several fires have occurred over the years.
Early bucket elevators used a flat chain with small, steel buckets attached every few inches. While some elevators are still manufactured with a chain and steel buckets, most current bucket elevators use a rubber belt with plastic buckets. Pulleys several feet in diameter are used at the top and bottom. The top pulley is driven by an electric ...
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Firefighters extinguished a fire Wednesday evening at the abandoned and dilapidated grain elevator and silos complex in Worth Heights, according to the Fort Worth Fire Department.
Grain elevators in the United States (3 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Grain elevators" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.