In Reply to: Combine Fires posted by JerBear on February 14, 2002 at 16:24:50:

With my R60 with air diesel I noticed a smoke odor. Upon investigating I found that dust that settles on the exhaust manifold had ignited & then dropped down(blown down as there was gusty winds) to engine floor & started dust smoldering. In my excitment I grabbed a fire extinguisher & gave it a shot. All the extinguisher did was blow the smoldering dust around & I suddenly had numerous smouldering dust fires going. All the extinguisher did was blow the fire around. I then emptied my drinking water & truck drivers drinking water trying to extinguish these smouldering dust fires. My truck driver went to a dugout for water & we soon had the fires out. Wasted about an hour. I now carry a hand weed sprayer filled with water in the engine compartment should this happen again.