The lesson here is to keep the tractor CLEAN of dust and chaff.
I keep telling the cow guys around here to do that as a preventative measure.
One guy laughed at me 'til chaff around the cab-post mounted offset exhaust on his green 6400 set the accumulated mess under the cab on fire!
He was in the yard and they had a big tank of water and pump set up in a truck for filling the sprayer, and put it out. Otherwise he would have lost the tractor.
He's pretty fastidious about keeping it clean now, a leaf blower or straight-through air nozzle on a big compressor works wonders!
Another reason to keep things clean is the block heater. It's NOT uncommon for cords to burn off and that does a pretty good job of setting the accumulated mess between the engine and frame rails on fire!
A neighbor lost a turkey shed repurposed as a machine shed that way a few years back.
He plugged in the block heater on a COLD day and shortly afterwards the cord sparked/burned and set the hay and straw mess on the DEERE 4630 loader tractor on fire.. He couldn't start it and get it out of the building because it hadn't heated up yet, and by the some the RFD got there, it was too late. The tractor, a couple of other modern tractors, a couple of antiques, and the shed were a total loss.
I know it's tough to keep a loader tractor that's used every day around hay, feed, straw or silage clean, but every bit of housekeeping helps in keeping the risk of fire down.
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