Combine fire. Half million dollar machine catches fire 

For a censored and uncut version of the video you can check out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jcYEhlbfY00.html Heres a comment from my boss. -"This fire was on my farm. So maybe I can help with some of what’s going on here. First, the fire extinguishers everybody seems to think we should be using are empty, we used them all just getting the combine into the fallow. There was a tractor and disc active on the fire, it burned very little farm ground. People have a hard time rationalizing what’s going on who have never been in a situation like this, but from the time the header caught fire to the point we unhooked it was less than 3 minutes. There wasn’t time for anything other than to save what we could, keep the crew safe and get out of the way. A lot of experience and fast thinking saved millions of dollars of harvest equipment this day. Save your opinions, I promise you don’t know what you're talking about."

Props to the operator for pointing away from the wind. That single-handedly saved the combine.

Some guys in our area (North Central Montana) have started hanging a 200-400 gallon water tank under the right front corner of their grain cart, with a hose reel and a hydraulic powered water pump. It's always in the field, always has an operator, and is one of the fastest things in the field. Everyone has water trucks, but they are usually unmanned and sitting at the end of the field, so take longer to get to the fire.

I'm glad you guys are all OK. Thank you for showing us city people a side of farming that is rarely seem. Your reflexes are fantastic. I don't think I would have had the presence of mind to grab a camera and start recording once that header started burning!

We had a problem with Fire in Australia, Queensland and NSW during the Harvest and it was imperative to make sure that the header and the combine were kept clean and clear at all times. The idea of a water tank attatched to the Combine is a great one, one that we should consider.

So glad all are ok, great job saving the combine. Maybe worth purchasing a set of welding gloves for each of the combines in this situation trying to take off a burning head.

Well played. I've been through only a couple of those and watching your video brought back the sheer terror of the event even after 40 years!. So glad it turned out as well as it did.

FROM AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 ♥️ SO pleased you guys were able to get the header away from the reel. Hydraulic oil 🛢 is dangerous. It looks bad now but you will be able to repair the front, they are too expensive to replace. I had an old header burnt and we were able to get it going again. So pleased none of you guys got hurt. I hope you all recover well. CHEERS

Sucks to see the head burn up like that. Glad you were able to get the power unit outta the way. Best of luck on the recovery end of things. Take care.

Damn excellent save! With the way the wind blows out there and how dry it is. That was close. I'm in Idaho bout 3 hours south east of y'all.

I don't know these people and was very relieved to see the combine saved

Yesterday, I watched a video from the Farm Progress Show in Iowa. Unverferth has an 250 gallon water tank, with hose, available for some of their grain carts. Here is the ideal situation for that.

This same thing happened to us a few years ago. Luckily we were next to Some fallow also.

Excelentní práce chlapi, zachránili jste mlátičku od plamenů a popela, lištu vem čert....

4:02, that'll buff right out, lol, good job saving the machine!

After having two of them happen to us this is why you always keep your spray truck with water in the field because nowadays this stuff goes up like a Roman candle with all the plastic rubber and wiring in them and your out of town fire departments might not get there for a half hour be safe and hope you have a good rest of your harvest.

I know it's a difficult time. Here we unload the cereal from the hopper of the combine on the fire covering it completely. That suffocates the flames. Greetings from Argentina.

Still working as of today! Thank you!

Good job boys saved that high dollar combine, compared to that head, y’all get the win 👊 kept cool and got er unhooked 👌 that’s crazy I’ve never seen the head catch fire before, I’ve seen a few combines burn but never the head!!

Sorry for the loss. But great job the guys saving the combine.

sad part is you probably stuck trying to replace that header with whatever is out there used because new is multiple years out

Dude that was close 😅. Glad everyone and combine is A-ok 👌

Good save, getting the combine unhooked. Glad no one got hurt

Pays to have your own fire fighting equipment even if it’s 2nd hand save a fortune in time and money. It only needs a stone to cause a spark, have your fire fighting gear near by.

It amazes me that fire suppression systems ain't a common/standard thing on combines and larger tractors. Sure it would add cost but would it save shit tons of machines yes.

This is awsome teamwork under high-stress and countless dangers present . Great job! I consider this a trainning video every field boss should show the crew!

Great job saving the 780. That took some quick thinking unders crazy stress. And to those saying that he should put down the camera, first you don't know what happened before the camera was turned on and the head was a total loss before then. Second, if he had put the camera down what would you suggest he do?

Sad to see a farmer lose a piece of equipment if not for a farmer we don't eat

Great job gents

It almost seems that I am explaining to them that it is on fire. I am not. I am explaining to the viewers. I am fine no one was hurt.

That socks. Glad you save the combine and no one got hurt.

Seeing more and more combines with a couple hundred gallons of water on board with a hose reel and a pump. I've also seen people rig up combines with race car style dry chemical fire suppression systems.

Conveyor belt headers the damned dummest things manufacturers ever came up with. Had enough hassles with belts thirty years in the seed industry not to mention all the dirt and garbage out in the field.

What don't they teach anywhere? Yes, at least it's a harvester preserved....

Sending praying for you and the 🧯🧯🧯🧯🧯🔥🚒🔥🚒🌧️💧☔🙏💌🤳

We had this happen to us this year. An older Macdon D60S Draper. Not sure what caused it. Your header burned far slower. Ours was gone in probably 2 minutes. The hydraulic reservoir on ours exploded. Blew out the vent, the fill cap and the sight glasses. We only unhooked the one point hookup and backed the 9240 out from the header. It was fucking wild and this just brought me right back to that day.

Would those big fields sprayers be hard to adapted to use as standbys for fires...you'd have over a 1000 gallon water supply

Always painful to watch, expecting it to be faster getting the header off.. yet in reality, you all busted ass pretty quick 👍

Even after all these years they still catch on fire and burn like no other piece of farm equipment and so easily.

Need to stop and clean out the headers, check bearings, grease shafts instead of going full bore all the time.. an hour of preventative maintenance is worth more than the cost of a new combine. Need to slow down during harvesting, been there done that.

Only liked the video because the combine was saved and no one was hurt.

It's sad to lose an equipment how much more one that you use to put food on the table. Credit for saving the harvester. Farming is life

Thank God u got the header disconnected

Awesome 😎

Glad nobody was hurt

How lucky to have managed to get the harvester platform off..

Good job saving the combine.

Glad you saved the combine

Kinda wish they had something where if you're header is on fire you can automatically drop and disconnect on the go

That's crazy. And I imagine just that header alone probably costs more than a brand new sedan.

Hey be glad it was just the combine head and not the whole combine. Thank God everyone is safe though. However it might be a good idea to do some fire Extinguisher drills and inspect your Extinguisher every year to make sure they're in good working order. Just a thought.

As often as I see videos of combine fires, I wonder why they don't have a fire suppression system on them like we have in race cars? They can certainly put big enough fire bottles on a combine to snuff out fires before they get big enough to do a lot of damage.

Молодцы, спасли комбайн.

good job

I had a piece of equipment that caught fire and it was a bad bearing in the grease and the bearing got hot enough that started the fire and then with the the dust from the the crops help spread the fire made it bigger and it took off from there

It can be rebuilt. Metal don't burn.

:( OUCH, THANK THE LORD EVERYONE IS SAFE. Farming is said to be the most dangerous job, this is proof.

We got a fire…here let me take the time to video it and fumble around with a fire extinguisher with one hand. 😅

Was I the only one screaming at the screen for them to stop high fiveing and move on to the field fire? In Saskatchewan it’s pretty rare to not have a water tank and disc or pro till in the same field so you don’t burn the country down.

Horrible sight, but so glad no one got hurt and the combine was saved

Is it caused on stones (little ones, so driver can't see)hitn' by the knives? Happens while you "hillmaster"- ing the jop.

Guess he does not know how to use the fire extinguisher..

So, a draper head can catch fire, has its own oil to burn, and is a bitch to unhook when it is burning. No draper header for me.

Cook tractor parts has a combine salvage yard in clinton Missouri they will prolly buy what's left they are good people and will prolly pay better then anyone.

I worked on a dairy farm in Wisconsin Hardest job I ever had

Чтобы не возникали такие проблемы на поле должен дежурить трактор с бочкой воды и шлангом и все можно было быстро потушить .✌️✌️✌️🇷🇺 Всем удачи и хорошего урожая !!!

The worst thing about hillco combines are the manual header pins

There's alot to be said for having a few slurry tankers full of water sitting on the headlands?

Good save. Glad no one was hurt

get ahold of AKE safety euipment about their exstinguishers. you will be glad you have them. you mite have had a salvagable head if you would have had em. at least check em out

Also a simple air hose dust off once a day will keep things like this from happening usually but there are a lot of variables bearings and gearboxes that go out hydraulic hoses bust a lot of different things can cause a fire but I worked in the combine Salvage for a couple years and have worked on Farm Equipment my entire life nine times out of 10 it's a lack of maintenance. I'm sure lack of maintenance was probably not the cause of this fire. The gearbox that runs the sickle bar is a terrible design in all Draper heads case MacDon deere. But who really knows sorry about your luck fellas but for the most part you guys took care of business and didn't lose the combine too. It use to break my heart to see a burnt s780 or a case 9250 come in on a truck burnt. I know the lose at hand and a lot of small time farmers would be out of business if this were to happen to them. I wish everyone had to work a season on a farm once in their life ......💯

But how come?? Wild 🔥

Kind of surprising none of these Farmers have water trucks I see this a lot

That header must have a lot of plastic parts and canvas. Plastic is wonderful. Good advertising for MacDon.

Such a large machine part, why hasn't it got a fire extinguisher system incorporated that can be activated by the driver? It'd save hundreds of thousands in money.

He literally got fired from that job. 😂

wow... hate to see this. glad you were able to get the combine off.. what started the fire

I feel bad I have 3 of those and we’re renting 4 for me and I’m 11

My bet is roller bearing started that fire its a common fault with mac don fronts catching fire i replace those bearings every year

Guy's, who ever told you too use those Dry Power fire extinguishers on a Class A fire is Crazy as Hell. Those extinguishers is used for Class B Fires Fires in flammable liquids, combustible liquids, petroleum greases, tars, oils, oil-based paints, solvents, lacquers, alcohols, and flammable gases. You need a Class A fire extinguisher... Fires in ordinary combustible materials, such as wood, cloth, paper, rubber, and many plastics. Those Dry Powder Extinguishers just smother the fire The other one will cool down the fire and put it out.

are no ready water tank traktors? ohh no!

A lot of fire extinguishers are a lot cheaper

maybe you should mount a 100 gallon tank to the combine with a pump system to a header on the combine head.

For the investment you guys have in equipment a water truck with a fire hose would save you tons of money..

Also good excuse to get a fd2

I think it would have been better to have launched the camera and done something useful

You could’ve easily stopped that header from being on fire yes it wouldn’t work but it would reduce the chance of the field catching even bigger fire and you wouldn’t be that stressed to disconnect the header

At least no-one was injured

How did it catch fire

Scrap iron now good save on combine

Terrible. Would be best to have a water wagon with spray rig there Hoping they get field out also No one hurt Thank God, Amen 😊

After the combine was safe they should have put out the fire in the field

For how many pieces of machinery are lost during harvest… im absolutely surprised yall dont carry more fire extinguishers on each machine. 1 dinky little courtesy extinguisher is good for nothing. Its only big enough to put a check mark in the QC check list (for as little dollars as possible. To maximize their profits). Those round balls that go poof when they get hot and cover everything within 10’ with retardant would be handy as heck. Have 4 large extinguishers & 4 of those balls and youd be in much better shape. Even if you have insurance… insurance isnt going to help you finish harvest right now. Insurance is long, drawn out, stressful, mundane process.

Dang that’s a bad day. Sorry, glad nobody was hurt.

when the header is made 100% of steel canot burn,the steel does not burn,this one was made of plastic,and we all know that plastic burns

ouch!

insurance looked after it? or was it on warranty?

OH MASSAGE

I know the problem you did not have a Deere header. The combine got mad..

Here in ks you can insure that $100k head, have a disaster like this and the ins will say: well its only worth $17k, thanks for buying the $100k policy tho