In Reply to: Combine Fires posted by JerBear on February 14, 2002 at 16:28:49:

We had a small fire on top of the transmission. It did very little damage (burnen a couple of wires). The fire seems to have been due to the disk brakes. Our combine (465 cat) had a brake update during October of 2001 supposedly to cure this problem.

Our soulution to this problem is to do a better job blowing the combine off each evening. Currently we use the largest Homlite leafe blower available. Needless to say we pay particular attention to the undercarriage area.