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Re: Bizarre - Field Caught on Fire While Plowing
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Posted by Bill in NC on March 24, 2007 at 18:40:28 from (65.188.155.69):
In Reply to: Re: Bizarre - Field Caught on Fire While Plowing posted by RayP(MI) on March 24, 2007 at 17:06:59:
My 140 does not get much work as it is a small garden patch. When I first started today, the tractor wouldn't take a load and was cutting out pulling a 5 foot disk harrow. I nursed it along and after a while it got squared away and started pulling fine. I figured it was a spark plug loading up and cutting out. Maybe it was carbon. A hot carbon chunk sounds plausible to me. It returned me to my youth getting that evergreen limb and beating out the fire. We used to burn off fields and ditch banks. We slapped with pine boughs to keep the fire from getting onto the neighbor's land.
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