Safety Cage for Front Loader

Tomjim

Anyone have one of these, are they a good job, they attach on the Loader Brackets, cost circa 100 euro I understand - better than using a ladder I guess

kevthegaff

Super job, have a gate that swings in, can't swing out, so u dont lean on it! I use it for moving calves in spring also. Put up calf shed with it last year, one of best investments, think around 1000-1500

White Clover

They are illegal unless you can control the baskets movement from within.

K.G.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121194242#Comment_121194242

They should make ladders illegal instead

alps

One of the most used implements on the farm here. Got on Done Deal from a lad with a small business up around Newmarket for about 800..

Woild like to know though if we could retrofit some safety valve onto loader rams in case of pipe bursting...or how do these systems work on proper hoists?

funkey_monkey

Probably shouldn't say this, but I've got an IBC cage that is chained onto the front loader.

dohc turbo2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121194242#Comment_121194242

Didn't know that, so are all teleporters with baskets illegal , that be on building sites even with stamped cages

anthony500_1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121196987#Comment_121196987

Just done the mewp coarse this week and that very question was raised. The instructor said it is illegal unless the machine has the ability to be driven from the basket. He also said many of the new teleporters had these controls available as a wireless controller similar to that of the small cranes you see on small sites, or for the cranes on the back of trucks.

Odelay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121194242#Comment_121194242

No they are not.

Wildsurfer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121199390#Comment_121199390

I had a farm HSA audit recently and inspector mentioned that weren't allowed. I think he mentioned you had to be able to control from basket too.

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121199390#Comment_121199390

Unfortunately white clover is right and it’s been that way for many years now.

Unless the machine can be controlled from within the cage then no man is supposed to be in it.

That’s the reason you see cherry pickers on sites and not cages on teleporters.

Odelay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121199674#Comment_121199674

I also was of the opinion that they had to have controls. But was proven wrong. Non integrated baskets are allowed. See section 48. So its allowed in exceptional circumstances. This might include occasional work.

Work Equipment updated version.pdf (hsa.ie)

48. (1) An employer shall ensure that work equipment not specifically designed for the purpose of lifting persons is not used to this effect other than in exceptional circumstances and subject to the following conditions:

"persons in a non-integrated cage or basket cannot reach the controls or other dangerous parts of the lifting machine"

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121199700#Comment_121199700

Roofing a shed or cleaning gutters would hardly be able to be classed as exceptional circumstances though?

Maybe so but I’d doubt it. I’d imagine exceptional circumstances would be almost emergency conditions.

cute geoge

Imo the cages on teleporter are ideal if only lifting up it is when teleporters are moving with boom extended and skins in cage is the danger ,a bit of uneven ground will throw the wholelot off balance

SodiumCooled

We recently got a cage, it was actually being used to hold firewood and was left to us for nothing but we are thinking to repurpose into a man basket - you lift it with the forks rather than attach through we might look at getting at euro bracket on it.

As for legality, is that really much of an issue for your own private use on the farm (rather than a site). Especially when the alternative is standing in the front bucket as we have done for years (and you see done regularly on farms and even on smaller building sites)?

Anything is better than a ladder in my opinion.

MfMan

Hennessey's monthly auctions in Port Laoise usually have a few of them on offer, c. €650 or so, excl. charges. I've a feeling they sell them for a local manufacturer as it seems to be similar ones there everytime. Come with the Euro brackets.

lmk123

They’re 100% illegal and have been for years, exceptional circumstances would be rescuing someone or the likes, not doing normal tasks on a farm