Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | missouri9170 - 9/30/2010 22:29
I really do not buy into the static electricity theory too much. If the machine were building up that much static, everytime you were holding onto the ladder getting on or off, you would get the crap shocked out of ya.
I agree, funny how people insist on chasing static electricity phantoms while ignoring that big hot firepot of an engine, with it's 1000 degree exhaust, right over the dirty end of the combine.
Of all the combines that I have owned, conventional and rotor, only one has never had a fire in very dry oily crops .
It was a 1482 IH rotor machine. The 1482 is a pulltype, PTO driven combine where the hot tractor engine is 30 ft out in front of the dirty end of the combine.
Edited by Jon Hagen 9/30/2010 22:37
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