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Most farmers here are programmed for this situation: Allways start calling emergency rescue, then take another person to the pit opening, and take a rope tied around your belly before you go in.

The domino effect of people trying to rescue each other, also happened locally when the farm size started to grow, and livestock was held on pits instead of straw pens, and people didnt know the risks.


Entering a manure pit is allways dangerous: If the gas concentration is very high, you dont smell anything at all and just go inconscious in a matter of seconds. Few seconds after that, death follows shortly. I used to have a scheme of gas concentrations and their effects on the human smell sense, the brain and the lungs. scary stuff.

Rule of thumb is here, if someone needs to be in the pit, use a blower or anything to circulate fresh air for at least a day, and dont go in without being tied to a rope with 2 people at the pit opening.

Off course a rescue oxygen mask, or the gas mask my brother kept from his time in the army, are much more preferrable methods....