Panic in the Field! Case Combine Catches Fire During Harvest!

[Farmer4Life]

What started as a routine wheat harvest turned into chaos when a Case IH combine suddenly caught fire in the middle of the field. Watch the frantic scramble to put out the flames and stop the blaze from spreading through the dry crop. A gripping reminder of just how fast harvest can go from smooth to dangerous.

[blackpowder]

Two of different colors went up here this year.
Essentially you are wasting water on the machine. Fire control spent on spreading prevention. Once the fire was noticed the operators had barely time to hit the ground before flames over grain tank.
1100 litres diesel in a plastic tank.

[RD414]

On Case combines, high heat from exhaust system is igniting chaff and then it falls on the hydraulic tank and lines. Sammy smelt it early enough that 3 water bottles and 2 dr. peppers controlled it till our fire truck could get there, only a couple of minutes. Lucky this time and hats off to Sammy for being on the watch. Combines are blown off every morning but should be done by late afternoon also. Would help if there was no high heat def system.

[blueversi]

On Case combines, high heat from exhaust system is igniting chaff and then it falls on the hydraulic tank and lines. Sammy smelt it early enough that 3 water bottles and 2 dr. peppers controlled it till our fire truck could get there, only a couple of minutes. Lucky this time and hats off to Sammy for being on the watch. Combines are blown off every morning but should be done by late afternoon also. Would help if there was no high heat def system.

That’s for sure. I think all the supposed environmental benefits of emissions systems pale in comparison to 6 tires plus the fuel, oils, and plastic going up in smoke.

[fjlip]

We always BLOW OFF at end of day...heard combine burned 6 hours after shut down... crazy amount of chaff if a crappy wind direction....like today!

[furrowtickler]

This may be a stupid question, but does not everyone blow their combine off completely every night when done while the combine cooling off ?? Including the entire engine bay ?
I assume everyone does ?

no doubt some situations are non preventable but I am kinda baffled with the amount of combine fires

Or is it just lazy hired men that don’t blow machines completely down every night ?

just curious if it’s the machines or the operators.
Maybe just bad luck

[Ibleedgreen]

We blow off our machines at the end of each night.

[fjlip]

One JD plus is that the engine bay is chaff free. Air filters last all season.