In Reply to: Combine Fires posted by JerBear on February 14, 2002 at 16:26:21:

Had two near misses with a Massey 760 in engine bay - overload cutout on air conditioner had malfunctioned before I bought the machine and the previous owner had bypass wired it - causing the unit to lock up and burn the belt - lucky I blow the engine bay out clean every day! Later in a wrecking yard I saw 6 masseys 4 of them had a fire in the engine bay starting at the air conditioner compressor. In the same yard I saw three almost new CIH 2188/2388 burnt from the hydro transmission setting alight to straw that collected on top of it. In lupins and beans any bat reel front will generate static enough to set a fire very easy - these crops should all require a good static strap/chain before starting. Insurance companies will wake up to all this stuff one day and then look out!