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Bout time you start learning your lesson about touching anything with an engine. Your a horrible mechanic and this probably had a massive fuel leak that you left and now it's where it should have been years ago.
Looking for a ring gear and worm drive of a combine chute. Not sure it your has one, but Id be interested. I need it for the turret rotation system on my Armoured Car build.
I’d be curious if the engine still turned over, and how much it would be? “8.3L Cummins out of a combine, engine swapped a few years ago. Just a little crispy now.”
Fires like this are why in the last few years that my family farmed, we invested in a couple high power leaf blowers. We would clean the machinery off before but decided it'd be safer to really blow off as much trash and dust as possible every evening on both the combine and the cotton picker.
This became standard practice on the naibors farm, blow everything off 1st thing, grease it up, start it up then fuel it while it's warming up, every morning during harvest
If a combine burn's you want it to be a total loss. Nothing worse than a machine that constantly has gremlins from what was missed being repaired afterwards. I've heard farmers tell their help that "The fire extinguisher is right there.... Don't ever touch it! That's what insurance is for."
Back in the 70s and early 80s a farmer that I worked for said to empty the fire extinguisher on the ground around the tractor/ combine, insurance company sees you tried to put it out and purity much not questions asked..
When I was 16 in the 80s I was a combine operator. My combine (1460 or 1480 case) caught fire around the feeder box. We put it out and concentrated on the wheat field putting it out. Turned around and combine was fully engulfed with fire. It was the first time I saw a grown man cry. (Respect) in the same field was a burnt versatile 4 wheel drive that burned the year before. In my 5 seasons of harvest I learned what can go wrong will go wrong.
All you have to do is build an “A” frame drawbar, bolt it to the rear axle, disconnect the steering cylinders from the rear axle, & pull it backwards. We towed a 2388 this way w/ a CIH 7140 tractor 5 or 6 miles on crooked roads just fine. The steer tires will follow straight when pulling it this way.
Sorry to see the machine lost. It will live on as parts for another. Glad your friend was able to laugh about it. Hopefully he had insurance to help cover some of the cost for another machine. Thanks for the videos.
I literally just rewatched this series 2 days ago. Classic Deboss wrenching on anything and everything. Sad to see the old girl go. She was ready to die, y'all wouldnt let her, so she died in a way y'all wouldn't bring her back.
So sad! I watched all the work you fellows put into repairing it. Especially hard for a farmer to loose equipment. Man, it feels like helping a friend bury his beloved dog...
never actually burnt a 2388 axial flow in my time driving them, put a skunk through one that was not a good move, also helped a workmate by dropping his stone trap in a corn field one day, hot ash came out and the field caught on fire under the combine, we got it out real quick, but kinda happy we did find that when we did lol, great video, turn it into a letterbox
The in-tow steering reminds me of my dad's '69 John Deere 440-A skidder, continuous orbital valve steering with a worn out shim in the bottom.of the box. Clipping along at 30km/h it would slowly bleed slightly right, then on little touch left and the valve would reset and jump left. Didn't help it was geared for 16.9-28's and we had 18.4-34's, so she clipped along a tad quicker.
"The vultures are already circling!" We used to say that on the forums when someone had a wreck and people were after their parts right afterwards!! LOL 😆 Man that SUCKS about the combine though! Kevin is an AWESOME dude, and I really enjoy him with Rich in the videos! You guys are HILARIOUS TBH. That combine series was great too! It was super interesting and entertaining AF! 😆 The rat piss air freshener thing had me dying LMFAO from before 😂😆 Glad everyone is okay, (including leaving the door open so the rodents could get out.) LOL 🤣
Brothers 1680 international combine caught on fire also that he spent thousands on the 466. He always blowed it off every evening and the evening it caught on fire he had just finished for the night and it was idling. The dust is a killer on combines
Man what a bummer. I know the 1480/1680's are really old girls now, but I grew up on those. I miss seeing them and that DT466 is just a nice honest sound to hear.
@@PorscheRacer14 yeah it was a good one. It caught on fire probably a 100ft from a creek and a group of Mexicans that didnt speak any english much lived across the road somehow knew it was on fire and helped pack buckets of water from the creek to help save most as possible. Language barrier or not they didnt hesitate to help. 👍
A shame to see a farmer lose equipment to fire but happy that nobody was hurt. Im amazed at the amount of dust from soybean harvesting in particular - wondering if that crop is therefore more susceptible to fire? Thanks guys, Kevin always adds to the entertainment factor. Cheers
Saw one catch fire last season. Same shape. The battery cables that run up and over, they rub through on the metal plate up top causing a short across the battery which in turn catches fire.
Shame to see her go. I worked on and operated a combine for the first time this year, an MF 40 that had sat for a few years, and I must admit, it was a worrying time until that thing had a few hours on it.
Saw that rod hole in the block of the original engine. Worried all last season as I had oil sampled when I changed before season - analysis said anti-freeze in oil, fix immediately. Fix could be as easy as replacing oil cooler but more likely sleeves as 8.3 is notorious for them. I’m looking for a used 8.3 as a spare knowing she’s going to blow.
It’s a wonder more don’t burn every year because of the conditions. A little wind, and dry conditions you can loose lots of acres of crop and no tell what else if it couldn’t be contained.
after hearing what kevin was saying, i'm surprised these theses dont catch fire more often! I work on commercial boats, we're mandated to have a suppression system on board, might not be a bad idea on a combine!
Maybe in the engine bay, to minimize the main risk. I'm imagining a suppression system for the whole machine would be too big and heavy to be viable cause ou have too much flammable material being thrown all over the places in a machine like that.
@@RogerioCosta1.0 In the marine space it's the engine rooms that get the suppression system (at least in the 60gt range stuff I deal with), the engine room vents have to have a way of blocking off the air, fuel lines need to be hard pipe or heat resistant... There's a buncha other shit that I don't remember right now. The systems I deal with are usually 2, 12lb bottles of fm200, which apparently is enough to deal with a engine room fire on a 60ft boat
@@petermolnar8667 a suppression system for a 60ft boat is like 2500 bucks (before labour), on a combine that's worth about the same it seems like a no brainer to me, but I'm not a farmer
aah this was sad to hear... well it did its best til the end i guess. keep em coming Rich! im waiting for more from you two! Kevin do be a real pal there, dont loose him ;)
I've had the grass accumulated on top of a ride on mower deck catch fire. That's a hairy enough situation for my liking. Just glad I was up near the fence where all the taps were. If I'd been down in the paddock, surrounded by long, dry grass there'd have been no chance.
@@ShainAndrews actually, I did clean the grass clippings off a couple of times that day already. Just left it a bit long I guess. Normally they don't accumulate in a dangerous way just mowing regular lawns. That day I was mowing abnormally long and dry grass, ironically as a bushfire safety measure. I suspect it was blowing in each time I turned so that the output shoot was facing into the wind. A slasher deck on a three-point linkage would probably have been better suited if it weren't for obstacles and narrow gaps. Ignition source was just friction from the drive belts. Long story short, shit really wants to catch fire in Australia.
It’s probably because it’s made by case ih and I’m not even hating or poking fun. I worked at a case plant that built cotton pickers which are basically fancy combines and they were so notorious for catching fire that they had an emergency fire unload button in the cab to quick unload the giant cotton bale when the machine started on fire.
Many years ago we leased a 2155 to assist our 5 row 9965 John Deere. Dad ran the leased picker and I want to say within a couple weeks of running it, it burned down after a hydraulic line blew over the engine. The emergency dump switch wouldn't work so he just got it into the shredded area of the field, bailed out, called the fire department, and let it go. Strangely, the combines that seemed to burn down the most where I'm from were the old 7720 and similar model John Deeres.
Quite a few year's ago we had a 1440 IH combine. We usually left it out dring harvest but for some reason that night we pulled her into the barn. We gave it a few minutes to cool down ( it had an M&W turbo on it) , climbed out of the cab and got a whiff of something hot as I walked around the back end. We spent about 20 minutes pulling shields of the back end and discovered a bearing on one of the straw spreaders had gone out and some trapped bean dust was smoldering right under the fuel tank. Spent the next half hour digging out and hosing things down good. Definitely dodged a bullet that night, could have lost the shed, planters, several tractors, ect but fortunately the only thing lost was a good night's sleep. LOL This kind of thing makes a guy a little paranoid.
@@MP-io7yj we still run a1460 and have an pre 1981 1480 as a back up. Say what you want they are dang good machines. We have a neighbor with a 2166 pushing 9000 hours and still going.
It always hurts losing a machines thats near and dear but youre usually better off letting it burn to the ground. Youre just sat there waiting for it to go but the insurance fucken hates paying out to get a new one or the proper repairs
Towing anything is fun. Funny story... On their way home from town, my parents met a neighbours daughter who's car was broken down. Since it was on the way home they offered to tow her to her place. It's a gravel farm road and it was an 8 mile trip. Mom and the young lady were hesitant to drive the car under tow so mom drove the truck and dad drove the car. Mom took off a bit fast so dad honked the car horn and mom thought dad wanted her to speed up, so she did, so he honked the horn again, so she sped up more. They ended up doing 100km/h down the gravel road with the little car whipping back and forth between the travelled paths in the gravel. Needless to say dad had a beer when he got home.
Yep. There's a fella not far from us. Was always into lentils, chickpeas and that sort of stuff, while we are mainly wheat, barley and flax around here. Anyways after his third combine caught fire he did that exact same thing. Granted, you then need to clean the heck out of the combine, but it worked. But there's a market maybe to get into. The price of combines just keeps going up. I know with lentils, you need to have a water truck on the field you are harvesting or else no insurance for your combine.
Combines are like haybalers used making peanut hay. Normally the best indicator a bearing failed is the flames over the top. Bummer but sadly that's what happens with lots of older units.
Planting around the combine reminded me of when we lost 2 old case tractors back in 2015, and they got planted around the following spring since the salvage company hadn't come and picked them up yet
Case 1370 and 2594 both hooked to tillage tools on the field edge. Mice got to the wiring and they went up. Set on the field edge for about 10 months till the salvage company came to get them.
I would put cameras watching the engine area and other areas that are known to catch fire when a problem happens., And with cameras you would see it on the monitors in the cab and save it before it's way too late....
Man that sucks but with the way heavy equipment parts are in short supply, yeah write it off on the taxes and then part everything usable out. Even the block as a core is still worth a good amount of money.
Given how expensive these things are and how important they are to the farmer’s livelihood I am surprised that they don’t have some sort of onboard fire suppression system.
@@DGHD yeah I know the purpose 😉 but what is used to power the fan? I’ve got similar setup with ban old 1460 and I’d like to add the blower, so this gave me the idea it’s possible. Thanks
Mos guys I know have a large air compressor mounted on their service trucks. Cleaned at least nice per day. Bad luck. Hopefully you had decent insurance.
This is the kind of vehicle that rather than town it to the junkyard it ends up arriving there in pieces, bit by bit, over a year or so hahahahaha. You slowly part out the remaining good parts to the local fellas who can use a piece like the cab or some bits and bobs from the front end, and slowly it starts to turn into a metal skeleton. And then once all the good stuff is gone you start taking it apart a little bit at a time on the weekends. A truckload of scrap here and a truckload of scrap there and eventually the whole beast ends up at the metal cemetery. It's a shame to lose it to an unfortunate accident like this fire after all the service it accomplished but fortunately everyone was safe at least.
Sorry to see that guys.. I know you put a lot of work into that machine. I watched the videos and I can relate. Kevin, I've got a really good lawyer. Let me know if you would like his phone number so you can get working on the lawsuit towards Deboss garage for improperly wiring your combine 😂😂
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Truck nuts not for sale.. So, charity auction? :P
Bout time you start learning your lesson about touching anything with an engine. Your a horrible mechanic and this probably had a massive fuel leak that you left and now it's where it should have been years ago.
Looking for a ring gear and worm drive of a combine chute. Not sure it your has one, but Id be interested. I need it for the turret rotation system on my Armoured Car build.
I’d be curious if the engine still turned over, and how much it would be?
“8.3L Cummins out of a combine, engine swapped a few years ago. Just a little crispy now.”
Who does the music in your videos...and why aren't you promoting them more? It's fire!!
This is what friendship looks like...helping someone laugh, when he really feels like crying.
Amen to that..
Its always sad when you lose something you have put a bunch of time and effort into... Im just glad that everyone is okay.
Really sad when you loose something you can't afford to replace.
Fires like this are why in the last few years that my family farmed, we invested in a couple high power leaf blowers. We would clean the machinery off before but decided it'd be safer to really blow off as much trash and dust as possible every evening on both the combine and the cotton picker.
excellent practice
This became standard practice on the naibors farm, blow everything off 1st thing, grease it up, start it up then fuel it while it's warming up, every morning during harvest
And then a lunch time quick blow out
Plus touch the bearings after the day, and order the one that is warmer than the others 😁
@@codyselcamino what kind of masochistic blows off a machine first thing? Makes a lot more sense to do it last thing.
The Rich-Kevin shows are the best. Those two together are far better than any late night talk show.
If a combine burn's you want it to be a total loss. Nothing worse than a machine that constantly has gremlins from what was missed being repaired afterwards. I've heard farmers tell their help that "The fire extinguisher is right there.... Don't ever touch it! That's what insurance is for."
You shoot the fire extinguisher in the air
Well this one is definitely a total loss except for the head and air reel
Back in the 70s and early 80s a farmer that I worked for said to empty the fire extinguisher on the ground around the tractor/ combine, insurance company sees you tried to put it out and purity much not questions asked..
So damn sad, I loved watching the series on this combine! Glad you guys are making the best of it.
It is what it is, can't change it.
We run those combines with the spreader shaft access panels off. Also put multiple long zip ties on the shafts too help clean out crop residue.
When I was 16 in the 80s I was a combine operator. My combine (1460 or 1480 case) caught fire around the feeder box. We put it out and concentrated on the wheat field putting it out. Turned around and combine was fully engulfed with fire. It was the first time I saw a grown man cry. (Respect) in the same field was a burnt versatile 4 wheel drive that burned the year before. In my 5 seasons of harvest I learned what can go wrong will go wrong.
Damn, that really sucks. Kevin you have a great sense of humor. A truly special person. Best of luck!
Sorry for Kevin's loss 😢 she will always be in his heart and never forgotten. Harvest high girl 🙏 🙏🙏
All you have to do is build an “A” frame drawbar, bolt it to the rear axle, disconnect the steering cylinders from the rear axle, & pull it backwards. We towed a 2388 this way w/ a CIH 7140 tractor 5 or 6 miles on crooked roads just fine. The steer tires will follow straight when pulling it this way.
This is the what combine harvesters are best at. They also do harvesting pretty good, but not nearly as good as they do self incineration 🔥
Sorry to see the machine lost. It will live on as parts for another. Glad your friend was able to laugh about it. Hopefully he had insurance to help cover some of the cost for another machine. Thanks for the videos.
I literally just rewatched this series 2 days ago. Classic Deboss wrenching on anything and everything.
Sad to see the old girl go. She was ready to die, y'all wouldnt let her, so she died in a way y'all wouldn't bring her back.
Glad everyone's ok!
As for the material losses, auch, now Kevin needs a Combine.
Hope the 8.3 can be rescued!
So sad! I watched all the work you fellows put into repairing it. Especially hard for a farmer to loose equipment. Man, it feels like helping a friend bury his beloved dog...
Glad you got this combine rescued from the fire and 8.3 cummins out of the Ford truck
1:07 that steering... Brings back memories
Aw man that ratpiss air freshener
Sad to see, but notes taken for my own operating. Appreciate you guys showing the carnage and the insight it provides
Good to see you, sorry to hear about the Tractor
Very common issue with any combine, happens all the time, heat and dust and fuel and there ya go
This year with all the draught it was horrible everything was so dry you even had to hustle to not having your whole field burn down with it.
Can happen in sunflower season too, it’s so oily it can catch fire sometimes
Yes, this plus heat and lots of air currents from the harvesting system and there you go....
never actually burnt a 2388 axial flow in my time driving them, put a skunk through one that was not a good move, also helped a workmate by dropping his stone trap in a corn field one day, hot ash came out and the field caught on fire under the combine, we got it out real quick, but kinda happy we did find that when we did lol, great video, turn it into a letterbox
Lots of fellows keep & run their old Case (1688) combines for the sound of that engine alone. Sweet sounding when loaded.🤗
Damnit. Poor Casy, u guys had a good laugh around it 🤣🤣🤭 lucky no one got hurt.
Despite how sad this was, at least you can laugh about it. Glad no one was hurt
Sad for our friend Kevin. Unfortunatelly combines on fire are very common everywhere. Hope this kickstarts a new project on this channel 🤗
The in-tow steering reminds me of my dad's '69 John Deere 440-A skidder, continuous orbital valve steering with a worn out shim in the bottom.of the box.
Clipping along at 30km/h it would slowly bleed slightly right, then on little touch left and the valve would reset and jump left.
Didn't help it was geared for 16.9-28's and we had 18.4-34's, so she clipped along a tad quicker.
"The vultures are already circling!" We used to say that on the forums when someone had a wreck and people were after their parts right afterwards!! LOL 😆
Man that SUCKS about the combine though! Kevin is an AWESOME dude, and I really enjoy him with Rich in the videos! You guys are HILARIOUS TBH. That combine series was great too! It was super interesting and entertaining AF! 😆 The rat piss air freshener thing had me dying LMFAO from before 😂😆 Glad everyone is okay, (including leaving the door open so the rodents could get out.) LOL 🤣
Brothers 1680 international combine caught on fire also that he spent thousands on the 466. He always blowed it off every evening and the evening it caught on fire he had just finished for the night and it was idling. The dust is a killer on combines
Man what a bummer. I know the 1480/1680's are really old girls now, but I grew up on those. I miss seeing them and that DT466 is just a nice honest sound to hear.
@@PorscheRacer14 yeah it was a good one. It caught on fire probably a 100ft from a creek and a group of Mexicans that didnt speak any english much lived across the road somehow knew it was on fire and helped pack buckets of water from the creek to help save most as possible. Language barrier or not they didnt hesitate to help. 👍
Man what a shame. Glad everyone was okay. Hopefully their was insurance on the old gal.
by far my favorite channel, Kevin is hilarious.
Such a sad story. Such love. A love lost.
sorry for the fire.. you worked really hard to save as much money as you could. best of luck
Look how clean the shop was.... 😳😳😳
Oh dear..... 🙈 sad to see her like this as she provided a couple of great videos. Best thing is that no one was hurt when she went on 🔥
Sorry for your loss, still laughing guys, great video.
A shame to see a farmer lose equipment to fire but happy that nobody was hurt. Im amazed at the amount of dust from soybean harvesting in particular - wondering if that crop is therefore more susceptible to fire? Thanks guys, Kevin always adds to the entertainment factor. Cheers
Saw one catch fire last season. Same shape. The battery cables that run up and over, they rub through on the metal plate up top causing a short across the battery which in turn catches fire.
Shame to see her go. I worked on and operated a combine for the first time this year, an MF 40 that had sat for a few years, and I must admit, it was a worrying time until that thing had a few hours on it.
Well that sucks, all that work up in flames. Such is life.
If you ever get a chance would love a vid with something done to a 6.7 IBS Cummins if you ever get a chance..... Keep up the awesome work...
There's one at copart here in louisville ky that's burned completely down. There's nothing left of it
All that work you guys put into that, damn that sucks Rich. Glad everybody is ok though
DAMN, my condolences to Kevin.😳 🙏😢
This is the 2nd one Ive seen this fall.Wow..Sorry for his loss. Hope He had insurance on it .
farmers should run countries !!!! respect to them all !!!
Just buff up the right side, take a pic of only that side and post it on Craigslist. You know what you got.
had a fire on a 1660 years ago started in the straw spinner bit the same side as yours was a shot bearing but i was lucky and managed to put it out
Take a the cab off and put it on a truck chassis with a flat bed. It'd make a great visibility farm truck!
That actually would look pretty cool
Saw that rod hole in the block of the original engine. Worried all last season as I had oil sampled when I changed before season - analysis said anti-freeze in oil, fix immediately. Fix could be as easy as replacing oil cooler but more likely sleeves as 8.3 is notorious for them. I’m looking for a used 8.3 as a spare knowing she’s going to blow.
All to common an end to many many an IH combine..makes me think that they may have a problem. And yes the new ones seem to burn alot also
I live in a small farming community and have always wondered why equipment doesn't come with a fire suppression system. 🤔
Farm fires are all too common, glad everyone is safe.
It’s a wonder more don’t burn every year because of the conditions. A little wind, and dry conditions you can loose lots of acres of crop and no tell what else if it couldn’t be contained.
In Australia there are laws to stop people harvesting in high fire danger weather
after hearing what kevin was saying, i'm surprised these theses dont catch fire more often! I work on commercial boats, we're mandated to have a suppression system on board, might not be a bad idea on a combine!
I was wondering too, but the amount of flammable mass could make it so expensive it’s cheaper to just insure it when it’s a fleet of them 🤔
Maybe in the engine bay, to minimize the main risk. I'm imagining a suppression system for the whole machine would be too big and heavy to be viable cause ou have too much flammable material being thrown all over the places in a machine like that.
@@RogerioCosta1.0 In the marine space it's the engine rooms that get the suppression system (at least in the 60gt range stuff I deal with), the engine room vents have to have a way of blocking off the air, fuel lines need to be hard pipe or heat resistant... There's a buncha other shit that I don't remember right now.
The systems I deal with are usually 2, 12lb bottles of fm200, which apparently is enough to deal with a engine room fire on a 60ft boat
@@petermolnar8667 a suppression system for a 60ft boat is like 2500 bucks (before labour), on a combine that's worth about the same it seems like a no brainer to me, but I'm not a farmer
aah this was sad to hear... well it did its best til the end i guess. keep em coming Rich!
im waiting for more from you two!
Kevin do be a real pal there, dont loose him ;)
I've had the grass accumulated on top of a ride on mower deck catch fire. That's a hairy enough situation for my liking.
Just glad I was up near the fence where all the taps were. If I'd been down in the paddock, surrounded by long, dry grass there'd have been no chance.
Never clean your equipment it burns to the ground. Never replace a worn bearing and never clean your equipment... it burns to the ground.
@@ShainAndrews actually, I did clean the grass clippings off a couple of times that day already. Just left it a bit long I guess. Normally they don't accumulate in a dangerous way just mowing regular lawns. That day I was mowing abnormally long and dry grass, ironically as a bushfire safety measure. I suspect it was blowing in each time I turned so that the output shoot was facing into the wind.
A slasher deck on a three-point linkage would probably have been better suited if it weren't for obstacles and narrow gaps.
Ignition source was just friction from the drive belts.
Long story short, shit really wants to catch fire in Australia.
@@LongPeter Well be careful. When you guys have something take off it seems to really take off.
It’s probably because it’s made by case ih and I’m not even hating or poking fun. I worked at a case plant that built cotton pickers which are basically fancy combines and they were so notorious for catching fire that they had an emergency fire unload button in the cab to quick unload the giant cotton bale when the machine started on fire.
Many years ago we leased a 2155 to assist our 5 row 9965 John Deere. Dad ran the leased picker and I want to say within a couple weeks of running it, it burned down after a hydraulic line blew over the engine. The emergency dump switch wouldn't work so he just got it into the shredded area of the field, bailed out, called the fire department, and let it go.
Strangely, the combines that seemed to burn down the most where I'm from were the old 7720 and similar model John Deeres.
It's sentimental, is the word
Quite a few year's ago we had a 1440 IH combine. We usually left it out dring harvest but for some reason that night we pulled her into the barn.
We gave it a few minutes to cool down ( it had an M&W turbo on it) , climbed out of the cab and got a whiff of something hot as I walked around the back end.
We spent about 20 minutes pulling shields of the back end and discovered a bearing on one of the straw spreaders had gone out and some trapped bean dust was smoldering right under the fuel tank. Spent the next half hour digging out and hosing things down good.
Definitely dodged a bullet that night, could have lost the shed, planters, several tractors, ect but fortunately the only thing lost was a good night's sleep. LOL
This kind of thing makes a guy a little paranoid.
I still use 1440 and 1460s been good machines for me
Holy cow you got lucky.
@@MP-io7yj we still run a1460 and have an pre 1981 1480 as a back up.
Say what you want they are dang good machines. We have a neighbor with a 2166 pushing 9000 hours and still going.
That air freshener is still working, Oh day La Mouse Poo!
It always hurts losing a machines thats near and dear but youre usually better off letting it burn to the ground. Youre just sat there waiting for it to go but the insurance fucken hates paying out to get a new one or the proper repairs
At least no one got injured.
Really sad, sorry for you 😢😢❤
Towing anything is fun. Funny story... On their way home from town, my parents met a neighbours daughter who's car was broken down. Since it was on the way home they offered to tow her to her place. It's a gravel farm road and it was an 8 mile trip. Mom and the young lady were hesitant to drive the car under tow so mom drove the truck and dad drove the car. Mom took off a bit fast so dad honked the car horn and mom thought dad wanted her to speed up, so she did, so he honked the horn again, so she sped up more. They ended up doing 100km/h down the gravel road with the little car whipping back and forth between the travelled paths in the gravel. Needless to say dad had a beer when he got home.
Makes ya wonder if there is a fire suppression system that could be implemented on these units...similar to the ones they put into race/drag cars.
Yep. There's a fella not far from us. Was always into lentils, chickpeas and that sort of stuff, while we are mainly wheat, barley and flax around here. Anyways after his third combine caught fire he did that exact same thing. Granted, you then need to clean the heck out of the combine, but it worked. But there's a market maybe to get into. The price of combines just keeps going up. I know with lentils, you need to have a water truck on the field you are harvesting or else no insurance for your combine.
So sad! Blessings
Time to rebuild it again
Combines are like haybalers used making peanut hay. Normally the best indicator a bearing failed is the flames over the top.
Bummer but sadly that's what happens with lots of older units.
What a full circle story lol. Glad everyone is ok tho!
Are we going to get to see the tank again?
Damn. Hate to see it burnt up after all the work you guys did to it.
Planting around the combine reminded me of when we lost 2 old case tractors back in 2015, and they got planted around the following spring since the salvage company hadn't come and picked them up yet
Farming is a slow business haha
What happened to the tractors by the way? Can you disclose which models they were maybe?
Case 1370 and 2594 both hooked to tillage tools on the field edge. Mice got to the wiring and they went up. Set on the field edge for about 10 months till the salvage company came to get them.
We put cable ties around the spreader drop shafts to stop the shit building up in there
I would put cameras watching the engine area and other areas that are known to catch fire when a problem happens., And with cameras you would see it on the monitors in the cab and save it before it's way too late....
Was there any ram wiring harness cobbled into this conflagration?
by 10:50 lack of maintenance and cleaning.. whoosh flames and fire went higher and higher.
Man that sucks but with the way heavy equipment parts are in short supply, yeah write it off on the taxes and then part everything usable out. Even the block as a core is still worth a good amount of money.
A local farmer bought a new combine a few years ago took ot to the field and started to harvest. It caught fire and burned to the ground.
Damn. Always hate to see that.
Best regards from Indiana.
Update? Did corn get planted around it???
That’s so sad 😢
Was a cool project though 😎👍
Given how expensive these things are and how important they are to the farmer’s livelihood I am surprised that they don’t have some sort of onboard fire suppression system.
kevin's cool
During harvest this fall atleast every other day there would be smoke towering in any direction.
Just bought a JD 9500 and gonna run my own farm with it next year, seeing things like this makes a guy a little nervous
You’d think someone would make a system for combines that melts at a certain temp and releases some pressurized foam.
I noticed y’all have a blower for the bean head mounted on the side of the combine. What did you use to power that?
Any beans that might fall out gets blown in. Less waste
@@DGHD yeah I know the purpose 😉 but what is used to power the fan? I’ve got similar setup with ban old 1460 and I’d like to add the blower, so this gave me the idea it’s possible. Thanks
Mos guys I know have a large air compressor mounted on their service trucks. Cleaned at least nice per day.
Bad luck.
Hopefully you had decent insurance.
IT'S KEVIN! Dude is pure as driven snow. Wait, sorry, pure as driven over snow. Fixed it.
" ""I jumped off a Burning Combine fire, I went down down down as the flames went higher""" 🤣
guess the song in my head...
Always a sad day when a piece of equipment burns up. Even when it's not yours there's just something about a loss like that
I see that Kevin's coat isn't a Carhart, I would like to know the name of manufacture of Kevin's fine looking work coat? Seriously!
Bad business Kevin, sorry for your loss.....
Oh no!
This is the kind of vehicle that rather than town it to the junkyard it ends up arriving there in pieces, bit by bit, over a year or so hahahahaha. You slowly part out the remaining good parts to the local fellas who can use a piece like the cab or some bits and bobs from the front end, and slowly it starts to turn into a metal skeleton. And then once all the good stuff is gone you start taking it apart a little bit at a time on the weekends. A truckload of scrap here and a truckload of scrap there and eventually the whole beast ends up at the metal cemetery. It's a shame to lose it to an unfortunate accident like this fire after all the service it accomplished but fortunately everyone was safe at least.
That totally sux but at least nobody was hurt!
Sorry to see that guys.. I know you put a lot of work into that machine. I watched the videos and I can relate.
Kevin, I've got a really good lawyer. Let me know if you would like his phone number so you can get working on the lawsuit towards Deboss garage for improperly wiring your combine 😂😂
Man alot of farm equipment and farm land have fire this year