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Amazing, a news team that understands farming. I'm in Indiana and these dopes wouldn't know the difference between a farm and a railroad. Sorry about that young man's tractor but kudos to the newscasters. The fact that the sunflowers make that young lady smile was a nice touch. Well done.
I agree. I watch a lot of generational family farmtubers. They need to have such a wide range of skills to keep the operation rolling. Farming is big business, one we literally couldn’t survive without & you never hear about them in the news. Food doesn’t magically appear in store shelves.
our farm is a strictly a no DPF zone damn things cause far to many problem. as we live a in a fairly dry part of Australia and primarily deal with wheat and barley the risk of a dust fire or dust explosion is far to high. one local farmer had a dust explosion the damn engine was removed from the engine bay it didn't get blown far but it still managed that massive hunk of iron a good 3-4 meters.
My uncle lost his JD 8295R and a JD 1910 cart four weeks ago to a fire while no tilling winter wheat into last years wheat stubble. He thinks it’s because of the extra shielding that makes it harder to clean the machine properly. I agree that these new machines have a lot more unnecessary covers that are plastic close to hot surfaces. A few years back harvesting oil flowers I decided to use my 2011 year combine, I was constantly having small smoldering areas on machine and had one fire on the plastic fuel tank, would’ve lost machine with that one but this wasn’t my first experience with flowers and I had 4000 gallons of water in a tank at edge of the field with a 3 inch pump and was able to put fire out quickly after that I decided to finish harvest that year with a older 2388 combine that had a steel fuel tank and steel side panels and although fires are still a threat I never had anymore issues that year. A word of caution to anyone that owns a case flagship machine check under radiator support there’s supposed to be two oval holes in the frame structure, these are usually always plugged with debris and if a fire starts there it would be next to impossible to put out, like having a fire on top of the rotor. Things I changed after fuel tank fire was a turbo blanket, exhaust wrap and the chimney as I call it, it’s a 4 tall stack or snorkel that goes around rotary fan to draw fresh air higher up away from dust coming out back of machine. I know going in the wrong direction with the wind that dust will get sucked in the screen and through the radiator then land back on top of engine turbo or exhaust manifold and those two things can start the dust smoldering and then that smoldering dust gets blown off to a area with a pile of dust and then you’ve got problems. Static electricity also is problematic, fires can happen almost any place on machine with this one, dry windy days are not good for harvesting flowers it doesn’t matter what kinda machine you have static electricity will happen on any combine and I never liked dragging a chain to discharge it, made the problem worse in my opinion all it’s doing is causing more friction
Fairly new JD 6155 where I work nearly burned from resisidue caught between shielding and the dpf. It was packed full of ground hay that couldn't be blown out properly. Ended up cutting away alot of the shielding (on an almost new tractor) so you clean things halfway decent and be able to see if there is more stuff to blow out.
I’ve cut a lot of sunflowers with bran new JD combines. I’ve never had an issue after I started dragging a piece of chain to get rid of the static electricity. Those same shields trap wheat and bean stubble also.
@No Name they are manufactured for a reason, meaning they sould be put in this type of equipment... But it's not in there xD I mean, it should be, don't get me wrong... But they don't really care about safety, if it was the case all agro equipment would have it as standard equipment
It's not just the modern shielding that's t h e issue it's the amount of plastics that are in use today on modern machinery. It burns like oil so easily.
Plus all the electrics which strong stalks can tare at an expose and cause shorts leading to fires and also heat from the engine manifold and exhaust systems can also add to the risk. All crops except green ones are risky. You need several extinguishers of water and foam and dry on tractors. One of the worst things is the modern use of plastics for fuel tanks. Plastic tanks offer no protection from heat and fires.
I run a Volvo loader and it's two years old and about every other month from day one we have had issues with the %#@% d.e.f. system mostly the sensors but some other problems to oh and when it has to regenerate it needs to be parked for 45minutes and can not be used at all.😵😵
He's exactly right about all the extra shielding these days and the fact that it traps debris also the shielding is made of flammable material as well if you don't have adequate fire suppression on your equipment you're done for
I had a john deere baler burn up in July 2022. It was two years old that day. Bearing went out. Turned into the wind and got the tractor unhooked. Lost about 100 bales. Almost everyone in our area had balers burn up. One farmer lost his tractor and baler. Baled some of his hay for him. His insurance doesn't want to pay off.
maybe the combine needs to be running on a cut area, via an lateral design like an old side sickle mower to the hot unit isn't IN the material ? does Crary make air units that could blow off the dust and combustible stuff continuously from the hot unit ? Interesting risk/value proposition there for someone creative to consider some configuration changes... (sorry to the guy whose tractor went up)...
Or to squirt a controlled amount of water contiuously on these hot areas??? You know, tow a liquid fertiliser tank behind the combine containing water and plumbed by hoses onto the tractor's hot spots????
ha ha ha. but there still not possible even on the low end running 300kW for 10 hours the battery pack alone will be 18 tonne much heavy considering high end combines are pushing 500+kW's.
I see you're swallowing the scaremonger's crap. No, farm equipment manufacturers don't have plans on making electric combines or other large equipment. Maybe if you studied a bit more rather than watching Fox "news", you'd understand why it was never a possibility in the first place.
@@TheMrMused LOL JD tried it floped so hard there next idea was to have one that ran off a massive cable and if you farm was to big you could buy an automated tractor that followed you around it was built around a massive real and cable its was glorified million dollar self driving extension cord and that was like 4-5 years ago no word about it since.
Why in the hell do they keep talking about sunflower Harvest during this video when this has literally nothing to do with sunflower harvesting! I have to assume this is most likely something like winter wheat planting witch has nothing to do with sunflower harvesting! That said Gee another case of a fendt having mechanical issues ...boy they sure do earn their reputation!
Dry seating what is likely winter wheat into unflower stubble causing a fire has literally zero effect on the price of sunflowers!! I mean sweet Jesus it could be a a full on combine fire running through standing sunflowers burning down 700 Acres of it and yet it would have no effect on the price so your point is well stupid to say the very least!
You always must have a water truck close by when harvesting risky crops. A 500 gallon water truck would have saved this man's tractor. But since he took a bad chance he will have to use his insurance if he is lucky or he will have to buy a new tractor. Either way a water truck would have saved it.
