Dordt in Stoom 2014 – Stadsgraanzuiger № 19

Grain sucker.

Grain elevator. It can suck all kinds of dry goods from ships.

Yes I used to see them operate at the docks around UK when I was wagon driving in the 70's.

I hope you weren't sucked up.

Nowadays they use cranes.

I used to load from a grain mill in Liverpool and big bags of grain plummeted down a chute to where I was standing on the back of my flat bed trailer.

The trick to loading them was NOT to catch but guide them by a glancing nudge with the shoulder to where you wanted them, a painful experience until you got the knack.

I wonder what H&S would say about it today ;¬)

Not only H&S, most people are more aware of safety issues nowadays.

Compensation culture perhaps.

Compensation isn't very high in the Netherlands, if compared to the USA, but I meant that people don't want to be worn out by age 50, or have cancer because of handling toxic stuff or have lungs full of coal dust and such like.