Friday Crop Report on Thursday.

[blackpowder]

I kinda get why they're molded plastic for shape etc. They could use actual bulkhead fittings tho instead of threaded, as they all sweat fuel.
That area over back of rotor and chopper bearings and tailings processor, nothing but a chaff well.
All low pressure Iveco fuel lines just plastic with screwy push on fittings.
How small do you want the fire and still have to fix it?? Just sayin...

[ajl]

We changed the fuel line on any of them right back to the 8010 , it burst and was shooting fuel into the dust that was gathered there , it felt like airline that was good for about 5 PSI
Luckily it done it in the yard
Not sure about 40 series but 9230 same junk as 8010 and 8120 and probably all Nh’s also

Buddy's 8120 also had a fuel line leak. I was running other combine and saw a bit of smoke, managed to get the driver to stop and he got the fire out before it got too big. That was about 10 yrs ago now.

[SASKFARMER]

Well piss all rain yesterday up to a half inch. Harvested for a hour.


Time for fall tillage, maybe some banding later in October.

[Guest]

Ended up with 3/4” nice rain , still no frost , good for juicing now as soon as it dries up !

[fjlip]

Ended up with 3/4” nice rain , still no frost , good for juicing now as soon as it dries up !

Good for you, 2/10" here, hoping for today and Thursday.

Local BTO 2/3 done juice, lumpy warm .....cheap juice I guess

[beaverdam]

Finally got a rain here, 30mm

Should report though, that there is many fields of canola still out, and a few durum. Apparently canola fields seeded midway through to those seeded late, have started reblooming under the pod canopy.(from late Aug rains) Canola very ripe, but they can't seem to cut above the regrowth and still get all the pod canopy.

Most of these fields have been sprayed by plane to kill the under growth of canola and weeds. Those that haven't sprayed are hoping for frost(now in forecast for Friday morning here)

Quite a string of foggy mornings, days with light showers and mist, and then yesterday, steady showers and rain off and on. So little combing over the last ten days.

Can't believe how the canola has germinated around the augers/spilt on ground, seems every seed has sprouted. Hope it hasn't sprouted in the pods of all the standing canola that's still left out.

[Templeboy]

This summarizes my week.

We had 4 fires (three of which were smolders) this fall with NH combines about the same vintage. Pretty sure the dust started on the turbo/manifold and dropped under the engine. Engine fan kept them smoldering until they could openly burn. Cart man was Johnny on the spot and got water on the them before it got out of hand. Another half minute, the fuel lines would have been burned off, and would have engulfed quickly. I think the white dust on the canola made it worse, it was hanging on everything.