At least that wasn't in a barn!
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Mosquito smudge???
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seen that from faulty bearings in the baler as well. the old massy combines with the wooden bearing blocks could ruin a harvest real quick as well
Somebody will tell you how to use course steel wool with a sieve screen on an oversize extension on the tailpipe. Cheaper than a new tractor. LOL
I don't have a barn to put them in but if I did they would set out a few days first. This one had been dumped 45 min or more before I seen it start smoking.
Last year I saw a spark go in the baler which started smoking but I got it dumped. Hay was a little green and it went out. This hay wasn't mowed last year and had a lot of dead trash in it. If it gets a spark there's no choking it out.
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Fire trucks can't haul enough water to put out a roll that's burning. I've seen more than one barn burned to the ground from hay baled too green that heated up and caught fire. GW
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Here in Tn. every once in awhile a bale will spont. combust Some of the farmers will leave the rolls set out a few days and they get a little rain then real good hot sun, next thing smokie roll. Few years ago we had a flood and the neighbors 12 rolls of hay came to rest in our pasture. Two days later the steam was rolling off them, no smoke but a lot of steam.
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Wow. Good job beating back the mosquitoes.
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strange you mention that...Yesterday morning about 10 miles from me.
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http://www.crowrivermedia.com/hutchi...cefcf95c9.htmlBarn blaze reported Saturday morning
Jun 2, 2018
A Saturday morning barn fire was reported off State Highway 22 between Hutchinson and Biscay. Firefighters were on the scene.
These pictures were submitted by Brittany Baker around 7 a.m.
This story will be updated with more information when it's available.
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After breaking down 4 times in 50 acres; I secretly wanted my baler to catch fire. I'm sort of kidding.
We lost a barn full when I was a kid; so sad. I still have a souvenir from that fire. Some hay melted/burned into a glass/lava form.
years ago when I was a kid growing up in New York State we had a wet year for putting in hay. We used a lot of salt on the bales and no barn fires but the cows sure ate a lot more hay then wasting it.
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A little salt helps a not so good meal for me also.
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lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting
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Neighbor across the street took a lightning strike to his horse barn. Hit the lightning rod and the heat caused by it traveling down the wire started a bale on fire that was up against it. He pushed it out into the field with his loader bucket on the tractor and save the barn. Hay was under a lean to on the side that faces away from me. The flash and bang were simultaneous so I knew a close in strike. I was getting ready for bed so went to lock the front door and saw the smoke coming up from behind the barn and called the fire dept then him. I had everything in the house unplugged except the toaster and new fancy toasters have electronics in them... yup it is fried from the pulse... With 2 towers, a 43' tall vertical antenna, another antenna that the tip is 35 feet in the air I never leave stuff connected!
I recall a barn fire back in the early 60`s on a neighbors farm. They were blowing chopped hay into one end of an old wooden barn. They rushed the cure time in the fields and went ahead to chop the wagons full and take it to the blower set up at the barn. About a week later it combusted from the green hay piled in the loft. This fire started, as it seems all fires do, in the middle of the night. They were lucky to get the pen kept animals in the barn basement out. The fire lasted nearly 3 days to finally burn out. On our farm we also had a MF 65 gas tractor, never had a spark problem with it in the 15 years we had it. We square baled all our hay and straw and filled 2 barns with the bales. We made sure the hay and the straw was dry before baling it. I`ve seen wheat straw get very warm to the touch if it was baled and had greens in the straw from grass or weeds.Robert
yup it almost doesn't make sense that wet hay will cause fire danger more then dry. Worked at a coal fired power plant for 10 years and it was the same with coal. About all of our bunker fires and coal pile fires were caused by wet coal.
seen it once or twice. good alfalfa to waste.
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