We Lost our Combine in a Fire...Here's What Happened 

Those green machines sure seem to turn black quite often.. I've been wondering how many are from static... Most of us in the NW run drop chains.. Doesn't mean no more fires, hot bearings and such can still do it, but static fires rarely happen here.

Sorry to see the damaged machine . Hope the insurance comes through for you ..

Sorry you lost your nice combine to fire tragedy. You farmers work so hard and then too have a major setback has got to be gut wrenching. God bless you for all you do to keep America fed.

Next combine add many many fire extinguishers all over it also a super powerfull (gas) leaf blower and a mount bracket to hold it. Use daily, maybe include a full face respirator for dust too : )

Wow, that was a super hot fire! That was the same model of combine as the renter who rents family land has and harvested beans off a couple weeks ago in MN. Dad used to talk of many years ago a fire on a old pull type Case he had in the 1960s that caught fire in oats. Somehow they got it put out. But, I remember the black charred section of paint there when I was small.

That's a real bummer especially since you blew it clean only an hour earlier! An IBC filled with water mounted on a small trailer able to be towed by a quad or pickup. IBC feeds a 6.5hp gasoline engine driving high pressure water pump. Gives you 300 gallons of fire fighting on the farm...in the field. How much to fit a fire suppression system to the combine (like the Australian commenter says saved his combine more than once?)

Hi from Western Australia...🤠 Sorry to hear about the fire... Good to hear that no one was injured... Here we use fire suppression systems on our harvesters.. we've had fires brake out on our harvesters over the years, fortunately they were fitted with the fire suppression systems.. and only resulted in minor damnage.

So sorry about the 9770 getting ruined. But very grateful my buddy of 60 years got out physically unharmed.

Dust and dirt build up on the top of motor and catch. Fire and drop down and catch the oily stuff on fire under the motor. You have clean that every day , blow the stuff off , and then pressure wash under the motor

Hi Jordan, sorry for the loss of your 9770 Combine but glad everyone got out safely. Glad that you did the walk around of the aftermath, as it was crazy to see the tires completely gone except the Steel. That fire was intense and must have gotten extremely hot. Glad that you were able to stop the field from burning as much as possible. It is great that your neighbors chipped in to help as much as they could. What is the plan to get the burnt Combine shell out of the field? I would think you will have to get a large Crane to lift it and load it on Semi truck to pull it out. Hopefully you can get some footage of the Rental Combine you are using to finish your Soybean harvest. Take care Jordan, and best wishes to the Stolz Family Farm operation.

2 days ago I was running a friend of mine's 9870 I can smell smoldering a couple times. When I got out to check it out up inside the gearbox of the rotor was smoldering. Threw some water on it. . Spray the air / water extinguisher on it once available. And the next day after it cools off. I blew chaff out of the outer gearbox area for over an hour. All burnt stunk like crap. With a 2 ft long wand it is easy to get in all of the holes beside the bolts. These guys were not as particular on maintenance as other people are... Either way it was a good save instead of a horrible Loss. . The gearbox of the rotor up top in behind the motor is prone to catching on fire. Almost daily it is wise to cram an air wand almost as much as the radiator. I was able to get the wand in just about 18 inches in various directions and you can get in so many different areas on the outside without even opening it up. Park wise according to the wind and try not to do it with the combine after it has been running😂. Go figure it is very hot in there when you have to unplug the damn thing or blow that area out let alone the dust.

Sorry about your combine

Glad your safe. Bummer.

Many years, on a very windy day, a rice harvester that I was driving picked up some dirt clods in the header. As I went to the back to get the header wrench, I found the engine in flames. Fortunately, I managed to get the fire out and the machine suffered no real damage. Not a thing that I want to do again.

Bean dust about like gas

Sadly since manufacturers make a highly combustible machine out of plastic especially the fuel tank when they catch there gone

Another turbo drain line fire .

I am seeing enough small farming RU-vid channels with combine fires that I am beginning to get suspicious. Is the value of a viral video enough to make up for the lost productivity and what insurance doesn’t cover? It might be if you figure the long term earnings of the channel. I sure hope that isn’t what’s happening, but you never know what people will do for views these days.

That’s not good