[AT] List trafic fires and other off topic stuff

[charlie hill]

I'm kinda wondering what the insurance company would say if you burned up a 
quarter million dollar combine by purposely running it through a field fire. 
I can see combining ahead of the fire to reduce the fuel available to the 
fire but it would damned scary putting an expensive combine into a fire.

I knew a guy years ago that died burning off wheat stubble.  The wind 
shifted and turned the fire back on two guys.  One ran and jumped in the 
pickup that was sitting in the field and also in the line of the fire.  The 
other was afraid to get into the truck because it had about 100 gals of 
gasoline in a tank in the bed.  He ran toward the fire line and jumped 
through it.  He died in the hospital about a month later from organ failure 
due to the trauma of 3rd deg burns on 90% of his body.  The guy in the 
pickup was fine but the truck was pretty well trashed.

The guy who ran through the fire came out the other side naked.  It burned 
his clothes off almost instantaneously.
He told the other guy he sure hoped he didn't have any scars from that fire 
but didn't think he was really hurt.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] List trafic fires and other off topic stuff


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Len Rugen" <rugenl at yahoo.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] List trafic fires and other off topic stuff
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>
>> Speaking of fire; a SE Kansas / Missouri farmer told me a story about
>> wheat
>> field fires and I don't know if I believe him or if he was just
>> entertaining
>> himself.
>>
>> He said that you could "combine fire".  If your wheat caught fire, just
>> run
>> the fire line thru the combine, it would put it out as you drove.  I 
>> could
>> see how this might work,  but I could also see loosing a combine with the
>> field.
>>
>> Has anyone ever heard of this?
>
> I've never tried that or seen it done but definitely heard of it. Worked
> best on swaths which were always more common here when I started farming.
> Not sure how it would work on standing crop though.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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