Canola Bin On Fire

[sumdumguy]

I talked to a neighbour today. He said they had a bin fire yesterday, Canola that they thought was dry. Straight cut, maybe a few green patches. Now they are taking a load out of every bin with fingers crossed.

[blueversi]

Saw one near Birch Hills couple weeks ago with flames burning on a canola pile underneath the bin

[Oliver88]

Sounds crazy to hear of actual flames!

I'll continue to swath I think.

[Braveheart]

Dry canola or not are any of these bins aerated?

[sumdumguy]

My neighbour's was aerated but not monitored.

[fjlip]

All swathed, cooled, staying cold. Keep swathing, same as last 40 years.

[tweety]

Some people really have to learn the hard way.

[hobbyfrmr]

I heard of one near melfort and the 3rd hand talk was thst there was fire and flames. Its difficult to comprehend, i would have to "see it to believe it".

[Klause]

In the past two weeks we've hauled 37 superB loads of heated canola anywhere from 2 to 90% for a crusher.


It wasn't all straight cut... there is just a hell of a lot of heated canola this year.

Check those bins and because they were cold last week doesn't mean they alone this week

[agchat]

Just came back from plugging the Stormax in. Canola bins all down .7 to 1.6 C from last week on each sensor. Third week in a row they have dropped a bit. Couple more weekly plugs, and if they still are dropping a bit will only check monthly after that.