Re: Combine Fire

Posted by fixerupper on August 06, 2020 at 09:41:54 from (108.161.63.205):

In Reply to: Combine Fire posted by Bill Tattersall on August 06, 2020 at 04:11:57:

The chance of fire is a constant with a combine. When you get combines running in the very dry western wheat country everyone is on alert for the smell of smoke. We were harvesting a wheat field in eastern Idaho one evening. Someone a mile or two away was burning something maybe just a burn barrel but the heavy evening air carried the burning smell across our field. I was on the other side of the pivot in a combine, another combine was rolling up to a truck to unload when one of the truckers radioed to the combine driver he smelled smoke coming from the combine. The smoke smell really was from that small fire a mile or so away but everyone on the crew was on constant high alert for fire. When I looked that way I saw maybe a half dozen young guys climbing all over that combine, I don't know how they scaled the side of the combine so fast but they were crawling all over opening inspection doors. When they found out the combine was safe they gradually climbed back off the combine and sauntered back to wherever they were before this happened. Part of the excitement came because they were bored and needed something to do but some of the quick response had been taught to them by the crew owner. He told them whenever they think they smell smoke come running. We did have several fires while I was on the harvest but the owner kept plenty of water fire extinguishers and dirt shovels on hand for the young guys to grab and use so the damage never was real bad. The only combine they lost to fire was a combine that was stuck in the mud and a pickup with a gas engine drove across the stubble and set the stubble on fire on a windy day. The combine was an 8820 Deere. The combine was not running but when it caught fire a couple of burned bare wires crossed and started the engine. It sat there running while it was on fire then suddenly the engine went to wide open throttle and sat there screaming away till it finally died. Not a good day for them.

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