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<blockquote data-quote="BAF" data-source="post: 8284629" data-attributes="member: 158121"><p>It was a fair fire from what we could see in Picklescott. About 13 miles as the crow flies and you could see there was the field on fire and the black smoke coming off the combine in the middle of it.</p><p></p><p>They must have got it contained fairly rapidly - within a couple of hours - because we noticed it moving heifers about 330 ish and the smoke had subsided before I knocked off at 7.</p><p></p><p>I know a girl who works in the firebrigade and she said it's been a nightmare this year. A couple of weeks back they'd gone back to check on one fire from the day before which was still smoking but essentially burnt itself out when the boss man said the field next door was on fire. A spark had come up out of the ashes and carried on the wind over the fire breaks into another standing field of wheat.</p><p>We narrowly avoided a combine fire at work the other day. The tractor driver noticed a tiny bit of smoke coming from the bottom of the auger. They got it all opened up and a plate had been rubbing on a belt and boyscout style slowly making a pile of dust turn to embers. Wouldn't have taken too much longer to go from smoldering embers to blazing inferno. And if that had gone up I don't think they could have physically got enough hands on deck to stop it before it got to the farm buildings and chicken sheds and its tinder dry all round them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BAF, post: 8284629, member: 158121"] It was a fair fire from what we could see in Picklescott. About 13 miles as the crow flies and you could see there was the field on fire and the black smoke coming off the combine in the middle of it. They must have got it contained fairly rapidly - within a couple of hours - because we noticed it moving heifers about 330 ish and the smoke had subsided before I knocked off at 7. I know a girl who works in the firebrigade and she said it's been a nightmare this year. A couple of weeks back they'd gone back to check on one fire from the day before which was still smoking but essentially burnt itself out when the boss man said the field next door was on fire. A spark had come up out of the ashes and carried on the wind over the fire breaks into another standing field of wheat. We narrowly avoided a combine fire at work the other day. The tractor driver noticed a tiny bit of smoke coming from the bottom of the auger. They got it all opened up and a plate had been rubbing on a belt and boyscout style slowly making a pile of dust turn to embers. Wouldn't have taken too much longer to go from smoldering embers to blazing inferno. And if that had gone up I don't think they could have physically got enough hands on deck to stop it before it got to the farm buildings and chicken sheds and its tinder dry all round them. [/QUOTE]
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