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GT in Indiana 
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 Topic: No Fire Extiguisher, Gone in 15 minutes!
Posted: 25 Sep 2010 at 7:42pm |
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1955 WD45 we like to call Ruby
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GT in Indiana
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Posted: 25 Sep 2010 at 7:50pm |
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Local farmer was on the road coming through town. He was turning the corner when the fire started in the hydraulic system. It was fully involved in about 15 minutes. Thank God no one was hurt. Alot of the damage may have been prevented if he had a fire extinguisher on board... Ya just never know.
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1955 WD45 we like to call Ruby
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Gerald J.
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Posted: 25 Sep 2010 at 8:09pm |
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A fire extinguisher won't put down a fire started by hot oil. Not even a fire hose will stop it until so much water is applied it has cooled the hot oil and by then its been spread all over the machine and the road. It may stop the flames momentarily but so long as the oil is hot enough to ignite it will burn until there's no oil or no air. And the "tin" of that green machine is all combustible and it did.
Gerald J.
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JohnCO
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010 at 12:26am |
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Seems like with the cost of a new machine anymore it would pay to have an onboard fire extinguisher system like used of big construction equipment. If they were factory installed it would only add a few thousand $ to the cost. Might lower the insurance cost.
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Dave A
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010 at 6:46am |
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most combine fires end up like this. Dust and oil burn quick and there is no good way to get to them when they start
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010 at 7:06am |
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A neighbor parked his tractor after shredding stalks about half way across the field. He walk back to a different tractor to chisel plow what had been shredded. When he came to a waterway he lit a fire to burn the grass off. The fire went down wind,burned across the field and fried the tractor that he had just left. A total loss,but insurance covered it. I wouldn't call that an accident covered by insurance, I'd call it having a DAHH moment.
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Dave H
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010 at 7:38am |
I was catching corn the other day and the ole 9500 pulled up to dump. Man did it have a good aroma. It smelled like toasted corn stalks.
I told the operator and he just kinda looked at me and went back to shelling. Next time it did not smell like toast.
guess that was one time that he skated.
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B26240
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010 at 7:41am |
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A small fire can be put out if gotten to right away but as Gerald J said after a little head start its all over. While on a voluteer fire dept. I responded to two equipment fires, one was a 4020 JD it had started up front near the fuel tank. We chased it from one side to the other and fially got it but in hind sight we should haveused two hoses, one from each side.
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AllisFreak MN
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010 at 7:49am |
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It's still good practice to have an extinguisher on board, even if it may not save the machine it might save your life. A few years ago an elderly man burned to death in the cab of his tractor because of an engine fire. You just never know.
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DSeries4
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010 at 9:28am |
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I good reminder to hose off chaff and dust regularly on your combine. One less fire hazzard.
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Kevin(Alabama)
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Posted: 26 Sep 2010 at 9:32am |
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Had a N5 burn a few years ago because parking brake was on. Burnt the combine, grain truck and acre of corn. had two fire extigushers and the man running my combine paniced and left them in the combine and they blowed up in the cab.
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