somebody had an ooooooops
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Topic: somebody had an ooooooops
Posted By: shameless dude
Subject: somebody had an ooooooops
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2019 at 10:32pm
| today, saw a bunch of fire trucks going by, they went to a farm north of me, upon arrival they saw flames coming out the top of a steel grain bin. the bin was full of soybeans. 5 fire departments responded, mostly for water tankers. they did eventually cut open the side of the bin. the cause? dunno yet. that was a BIG bin! |
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:13pm
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Did that bin look like this?  Couldn't be this one since your neighbors happened in the daylight... LOL Tho, I wonder if his was this hot... ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:26pm
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When you can SEE the flames THROUGH the steel, it's hot. Grandpa always kept us away from the grain bins, and couldn't explain why... fire was one of the dangers we actually COULD've understood. The others, not so much. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:56pm
| that's a HOT one JC...this was a larger bin than that one. I've seen them in the smoldering stage, but not one flaming like that one or the one yesterday! whew! bad enough to lose the crop, then you lose the bin and componates too. glad no one got hurt! |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 5:32am
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That's one thing about farming, the oopses are usually pretty costly. Stack houses that we store chicken litter in will catch fire to. It's usually from litter being piled to high and sitting to long. It starts to heat up then gets hot enough to ignite same as mulch piles. Science is some scary stuff sometimes ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 12:34pm
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Many a barn have burnt down from stacking 'green' hay bales tightly ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 12:57pm
| Watched a row of Wet baled Round bales smoke and steam one winter, got a really warm day and they were off to the races burning. Burned all the way to piles of ash. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 2:40pm
Oh yeah, many a time. One set of geniuses around here burned down their barn 2 times in 3 years for the same reason. Same ones as, when you see them in town or something, they ask if we've baled hay. Uh, no, extremely humid, won't dry, etc. "Oh, but you've got to get your hay baled man, you gotta go and get done! The sun is bleaching out the hay!!!"
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LouSWPA wrote:Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 7:16pm
| ,, stuff like this should never happen ,, probably done it for the insurance money,, |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2019 at 1:31am
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Must have happened after we talked. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2019 at 9:14pm
| yeah it did John...found out who's it was and others besides me think it might be an insurance thing. this is the second bin of soys he's lost in the past 3 years. he's blaming the fire on an electical issue, even tho the beans tested wet when put in there. he ain't to bright, but has a lot of money. an old uncle made sure of that! |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2019 at 11:46pm
| I was delivering a load of diesel to a farm one day. I smelled a bin of bad beans. I got ahold of the owner. He said he checked the bin the day before. Those beans were hot. They got a hold of the neighbor who fed thousands of head of cattle. They brought a grain vac and sucked the beans outta the bin, windowed then at their pit and blended then in with silage and fed them. They saved the bin. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 10:36pm
| this guy told the news that he had just shy of 70,000 bu of beans in that bin! pretty good fit on a 6500 bu bin! LMAO |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2019 at 10:38pm
| I also talked to an insurance company investigator friend of mine, he was on his way out to investigate a combine fire. a new green machine with less than 30 hours on it! |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 12:35am
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Burned just after it finished the harvest? ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2019 at 5:41pm
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Jonh CO!!!---SSSSSHHHHHH!!!!! ---- not sposed to know that!! LOL!!! Ya, seen some strange fires around here over the years too!--Kinda makes ya wonder!! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2019 at 7:18am
| As a St. Louis area raised I always heard it called Jewish Lightning, Clear days, not a cloud in sky, magic random bolt of lightning sets at least three areas afire in abandoned dilapidated "Million Dollar" insured buildings!!!! |