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Posted: 22 Oct 2019 at 10:32pm |
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today, saw a bunch of fire trucks going by, they went to a farm north of me, upon arrival they saw flames coming out the top of a steel grain bin. the bin was full of soybeans. 5 fire departments responded, mostly for water tankers. they did eventually cut open the side of the bin. the cause? dunno yet. that was a BIG bin!
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JC-WI
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Posted: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:13pm |
Did that bin look like this? Couldn't be this one since your neighbors happened in the daylight... LOL Tho, I wonder if his was this hot...
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Posted: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:26pm |
When you can SEE the flames THROUGH the steel, it's hot.
Grandpa always kept us away from the grain bins, and couldn't explain why...
fire was one of the dangers we actually COULD've understood. The others, not so much.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:56pm |
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that's a HOT one JC...this was a larger bin than that one. I've seen them in the smoldering stage, but not one flaming like that one or the one yesterday! whew! bad enough to lose the crop, then you lose the bin and componates too. glad no one got hurt!
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Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 5:32am |
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That's one thing about farming, the oopses are usually pretty costly. Stack houses that we store chicken litter in will catch fire to. It's usually from litter being piled to high and sitting to long. It starts to heat up then gets hot enough to ignite same as mulch piles. Science is some scary stuff sometimes
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Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 12:34pm |
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Many a barn have burnt down from stacking 'green' hay bales tightly
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Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 12:57pm |
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Watched a row of Wet baled Round bales smoke and steam one winter, got a really warm day and they were off to the races burning. Burned all the way to piles of ash.
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Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 2:40pm |
 LouSWPA wrote:
Many a barn have burnt down from stacking 'green' hay bales tightly |
Oh yeah, many a time. One set of geniuses around here burned down their barn 2 times in 3 years for the same reason. Same ones as, when you see them in town or something, they ask if we've baled hay. Uh, no, extremely humid, won't dry, etc. "Oh, but you've got to get your hay baled man, you gotta go and get done! The sun is bleaching out the hay!!!"
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Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 7:16pm |
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,, stuff like this should never happen ,, probably done it for the insurance money,,
Edited by DougG - 24 Oct 2019 at 4:08am
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Posted: 24 Oct 2019 at 1:31am |
Must have happened after we talked.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2019 at 9:14pm |
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yeah it did John...found out who's it was and others besides me think it might be an insurance thing. this is the second bin of soys he's lost in the past 3 years. he's blaming the fire on an electical issue, even tho the beans tested wet when put in there. he ain't to bright, but has a lot of money. an old uncle made sure of that!
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Posted: 25 Oct 2019 at 11:46pm |
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I was delivering a load of diesel to a farm one day. I smelled a bin of bad beans. I got ahold of the owner. He said he checked the bin the day before. Those beans were hot. They got a hold of the neighbor who fed thousands of head of cattle. They brought a grain vac and sucked the beans outta the bin, windowed then at their pit and blended then in with silage and fed them. They saved the bin.
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 10:36pm |
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this guy told the news that he had just shy of 70,000 bu of beans in that bin! pretty good fit on a 6500 bu bin! LMAO
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Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 10:38pm |
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I also talked to an insurance company investigator friend of mine, he was on his way out to investigate a combine fire. a new green machine with less than 30 hours on it!
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Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 12:35am |
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Burned just after it finished the harvest?
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Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 5:41pm |
Jonh CO!!!---SSSSSHHHHHH!!!!! ---- not sposed to know that!! LOL!!!
Ya, seen some strange fires around here over the years too!--Kinda makes ya wonder!!
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Posted: 30 Oct 2019 at 7:18am |
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As a St. Louis area raised I always heard it called Jewish Lightning, Clear days, not a cloud in sky, magic random bolt of lightning sets at least three areas afire in abandoned dilapidated "Million Dollar" insured buildings!!!!
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