Posted by The tractor vet on August 06, 2020 at 07:48:55 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Combine Fire posted by Bill Tattersall on August 06, 2020 at 04:11:57:
Sometimes it does not take much for a combine to go up and now with more PLASTIC being used they get cooking really good .Back in the early 90's i had my pride and joy lite up on me opening a corn field . I had the headlands open and was opening up the middle and almost to the north end of the field the cylinder variable speed adjusting crank hit me in the elbow and started spinning and wwhen i looked at it i caught the smoke coming up off the right side of the machine . I shoved the speed control wide open and got it out into a hay field stopped the combine and jumped out grabbing a five pound extinguisher and empted it and hardly slowed down the fire . I was about 500 feet from a house trailer that i saw a garden hose hanging off the side of it and back up in the cab and as fast as my little Massey would go i ran it over close to the trailer and got the hose and was hosing it down . I was getting it under control when the fire dept arrived as a passing motorist saw the smoke and flames and called it in and the fact i was about a mile from the fire dept and three of the fireman lived next door . A bearing had gone out in the cylinder drive and the only real damage was one bearing and the cylinder drive belt and smoke damage and 15 years off my life . Round balers and mounted corn pickers go up fast also and i can tell you a five pounder will NOT get the job done , It takes WATER to cool the fire and wet the chaff. I had just washed that combine off after i had finished up at another farm and was starting clean on this shelling job . If it wopuld have caught fire at the opther guys place she would have been a crispy critter due to the fact i was inbetween the far reaches of two fire dept's and WAY back in over some pretty rough ground where we could only use tractors and wagons , was hard enough getting the combine back in and the 4 wheel drive pick up back to take fuel in.
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