In Reply to: Combine Fires posted by JerBear on February 14, 2002 at 16:22:44:

In soybeans we had a JD9650 walker machine that had a spot in the cylinder bars that was smooth from the returns dumping in that spot of the cylinder.Material built up in the concave and friction cased a smoldering fire in it.Took two water ex to put it out..It could of never happend if deere would of spread the returns over most of the cylinder or we replaced the bars sooner..We put alot of acres on our combines it happen last fall and the combine was a 2000.