Posted by RBnSC on January 25, 2009 at 12:13:26 from (216.186.211.72):
About 40 years ago Dad was cutting wheat for another farmer I was there to help. When he finished one field I would drive the combine to the next and he would drive the truck and get back on and cut some more. The truck was an old single axle white tractor with an enclosed trailer that belonged to the farmer. Whenever he unloaded a hopper I had to shovel it to the front. Finally dad tells me to drive the truck to the far end the field. Man I'm excited I get to drive a tractor trailer. I get there and before I shut that big six cylinder off I revved it up a couple of times just to listen to it pop when it backed down. When I shut if off all I could hear was little crackle kind of like a fire, sure enough I had set the field on fire which immediately caught the truck on fire. Dad came flying over with the combine jumps in the truck trys to crank it up to drive out of the field,But its fludded and won't crank. He did find a little fire extinguisher and saved two tires and part of the cab. End of the day I was responsible for destroying a truck a trailer, a couple of hundred bushels of wheat, and about an acre or two that had not been cut. Dad turned 80 this year and I still haven't told him what really caused the fire. Anything like that ever happen to you? Ron
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