I have never had a tractor fire but I've been around plenty of combine fires. In a chaff fire on a combine a dry extinguisher blows embers around so they can start more fires. Then you get REALLY excited. Water is by far the best in that situation. I even knocked down a small combine static dust fire on the top of the rotor cage with a can of soda one time. If a hydraulic hose blows and sprays on the manifold a dry extinguisher is best of course, but water will cool down the hot manifold quicker, eliminating the ignition source. When we were in wheat in the dry country each combine had a dirt shovel and five gallon water extinguisher. After a couple of months most of the crew knew how to use them and the result was we never lost a combine to fire. One of the combines lost a couple hydraulic hoses and one belt before they got it out but five young men with shovels and water got it stopped. When it is over you are kind of jumpy for the rest of the day though.
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