[AT] List trafic fires and other off topic stuff

[John Grant]

Yes, you would often see learge combine opearions movine North to South with 
the season with a blackened combine. it was their "fire" combine which they 
would run the fire thru in an attempt to put the fire out. Worked,,, 
sometimes.
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> Humm.  That explains a combine we got in the dealership when I worked 
> there.  It was a completely burned out hulk.  The only thing we salvaged 
> out of it was the rear axle and wheels.
>
> Larry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Len Rugen <rugenl at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008 16:37
> 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?
>>
>>
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